Alemayehu Roba (born 27 October 1972) is a retired

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 ...

n middle distance runner who specialized in the

1500 metres The 1500 metres or 1,500-metre run (typically pronounced 'fifteen-hundred metres') is the foremost middle distance track event in athletics. The distance has been contested at the Summer Olympics since 1896 and the World Championships in Athletic ...

. He won a silver medal at the 1990 World Junior Championships and a bronze medal at the

1991 All-Africa Games The 5th All-Africa Games were held from September 20 to October 1, 1991, in Cairo, Egypt. Forty-three countries participated in eighteen sports. For the first time the Games were held on a four-year cycle as planned. Egypt had hoped to use the G ...

.All-Africa Games
- GBR Athletics He competed at the 1991 World Championships, but did not progress from the qualification round.

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* 1972 births Living people Ethiopian male middle-distance runners African Games bronze medalists for Ethiopia African Games medalists in athletics (track and field) Athletes (track and field) at the 1991 All-Africa Games 20th-century Ethiopian people {{Ethiopia-athletics-bio-stub