Selamawit Teferi

	Selamawit Teferi Selamawit Dagnachew Teferi (born 24 March 1994) is an Ethiopian-born Israeli Olympic runner. She qualified to represent Israel at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo in the 5,000 meters. She has also won Israeli championships at 800 meters and 1,500 meters. Early and personal life Dagnachew was born in Ethiopia, to a non-Jewish family. She became an Israeli citizen in April 2018, on account of her marriage to an Israeli citizen. She is married to Ethiopian-born Israeli Olympic marathoner Marhu Teferi, who also competed in the 2020 Summer Olympics. They are the first married couple to represent Israel at the Olympics. Running career Dagnachew won the Israeli National Championship in 800 meters with a time of 2:13.11 on July 5, 2017, and won the Israeli National Championship in 1,500 meters with a time of 4:14.07 on July 4, 2019. As of November 2019, her highest world ranking in the 5,000 meters was 22nd (and her personal best was 15:08.39 in July 2019), her highest world ranking ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Israel At The 2020 Summer Olympics Israel competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo with its largest contingent to date − a delegation of 90 athletes, 55 men and 35 women, who competed in 15 different sports. This was almost double the previous number of 47 athletes who represented Israel at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics. The Games were also Israel's most successful to date, winning four medals, including two gold. At Tokyo, Israel marked its Olympic debuts in surfing (new to the 2020 Games), baseball (returning to the Games), archery, equestrian and marathon swimming. Israel returned home from Tokyo with two gold and two bronze medals, a record number of medals won by Israel in one Olympics. Artistic gymnast Artem Dolgopyat won the gold medal in the men's floor exercise and rhythmic gymnast Linoy Ashram won the gold medal at the women's rhythmic individual all-around event. Taekwondo practitioner Avishag Semberg won the bronze medal in the Women's 49 kg category and the national judo team won another br ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Ethiopia Ethiopia, , om, Itiyoophiyaa, so, Itoobiya, ti, ኢትዮጵያ, Ítiyop'iya, aa, Itiyoppiya officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, is a landlocked country in the Horn of Africa. It shares borders with Eritrea to the north, Djibouti to the northeast, Somalia to the east and northeast, Kenya to the south, South Sudan to the west, and Sudan to the northwest. Ethiopia has a total area of . As of 2022, it is home to around 113.5 million inhabitants, making it the 13th-most populous country in the world and the 2nd-most populous in Africa after Nigeria. The national capital and largest city, Addis Ababa, lies several kilometres west of the East African Rift that splits the country into the African and Somali tectonic plates. Anatomically modern humans emerged from modern-day Ethiopia and set out to the Near East and elsewhere in the Middle Paleolithic period. Southwestern Ethiopia has been proposed as a possible homeland of the Afroasiatic langua ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	2019 In The Sport Of Athletics In 2019, the main athletic events were the 2019 IAAF World Cross Country Championships, the 2019 IAAF World Relays, and the 2019 World Athletics Championships. Major championships World World Championships World Cross Country Championships * World Relays World Mountain Running Championships World Long Distance Mountain Running Championships * World Masters Indoor Championships * World Para Championships IAU 50 km World Championships IAU 24 Hour World Championships IAU Trail World Championships Universiade World Police and Fire Games Regional African Games * African U20 Championships Arab Championships Asian Championships Asian Marathon Championships Asian Race Walking Championships * Asian Youth Championships Southeast Asian Games South Asian Games East Asian Youth Games (cancelled) European Games European Athletics U23 Championships European Athletics U20 Championships European Cross Country Championships European Combined Events Team Championships * Eur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]