Axumawit Alem Embaye (Amharic: አክሱማዊት አምባዬ; born 18 October 1994) is an Ethiopian

middle-distance runner Middle-distance running events are track races longer than sprints, up to 3000 metres. The standard middle distances are the 800 metres, 1500 metres and mile run, although the 3000 metres may also be classified as a middle-distance event. The 1 ...

, who specialises 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 ...

. She is a two-time World Indoor Championship silver medallist from

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and

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Career

Axumawit Embaye made her first major appearances in 2012. She was runner-up in the 800 m at the Ethiopian junior championships and ended up seventh at the

2012 World Junior Championships in Athletics The 2012 World Junior Championships in Athletics was an international athletics competition for athletes qualifying as juniors (born 1993 or later) which was held at the Estadi Olímpic Lluís Companys in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, on 10–15 ...

, recording a personal best of 4:12.92 minutes. She switched to the

for the 2013 season and performed well on the European circuit. She ran a best of 4:09.11 minutes at the

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indoors to place second and had a string of runner-up placings outdoors at the

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and the

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(she set a personal best of 4:05.16 minutes at the latter event).Axumawit Embaye
Tilastopaja. Retrieved on 2014-03-09. Top three placings at the

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and

Weltklasse in Karlsruhe Indoor Meeting Karlsruhe, formerly known as BW-Bank Meeting, is an annual indoor track and field competition which takes place in January or February in Karlsruhe, Germany. The meeting was first held at the Europahalle in 1985 and is currently a W ...

at the start of the next year brought her a place on the team for the 2014 World Indoor Championships in the 1500 metres event. She was second to

Abebe Aregawi Abeba Aregawi Gebretsadik (Amharic: አበባ አረጋዊ ;born 5 July 1990) is an Ethiopian-Swedish retired middle-distance runner who specialised in the 1500 metres. She won the bronze medal in the 1500 m at the 2012 Summer Olympics and a go ...

in the heats and repeated that feat in the final; although Abebe comfortably won the race, Axumawit stayed ahead of the rest of the pack to take the silver medal. She placed fourth in her specialist event at the

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held in

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was the winner while

Dawit Seyaum Dawit Seyaum Biratu (born 27 July 1996) is an Ethiopian middle- and long-distance runner who specialises in the 1500 metres. She placed fourth at the 2015 World Championships and won the silver medal at the 2016 World Indoor Championships. Da ...

and

Gudaf Tsegay Gudaf Tsegay Desta (born 23 January 1997) is an Ethiopian middle- and long-distance runner. She is the 2020 Tokyo Olympic bronze medallist in the women's 5000 metres. At the World Athletics Championships, she won a bronze for the 1500 metres i ...

finished second and third, respectively. At the 2019 World Championships in

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, Axumawit was eliminated in the heats of the women's 1500m event. In 2022, Axumawit repeated her achievement from 2014 winning 1500m silver at the World Indoor Championships in

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, clocking 4:02.29. Her compatriot Tsegay led an Ethiopian medals sweep in 3:57.19 as

Hirut Meshesha Hirut Meshesha (born 20 January 2001) is an Ethiopian middle-distance runner. She won the bronze medal in the women's 1500 metres at the 2022 World Indoor Championships in Belgrade. Meshesha took gold for the 800 metres at the 2019 African Game ...

finished third (4:03.39).

Competition record

Personal bests

– 3:59.02 (2019) ** 1500 metres indoor – 4:02.12 (2022) *

One mile The mile run (1,760 yards or exactly 1,609.344 metres) is a middle-distance foot race. The history of the mile run event began in England, where it was used as a distance for gambling races. It survived track and field's switch to ...

– 4:18.58 (2019) ** One mile indoor – 4:23.50 (2015) *

3000 metres The 3000 metres or 3000-metre run is a track running event, also commonly known as the "3K" or "3K run", where 7.5 laps are run around an outdoor 400 m track, or 15 laps around a 200 m indoor track. It is debated whether the 3000m shoul ...

– 8:43.83 (2018) ** 3000 metres indoor – 8:49.52 (2017)

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Embaye, Axumawit Living people 1994 births Ethiopian female middle-distance runners World Athletics Indoor Championships medalists 21st-century Ethiopian women 21st-century Ethiopian people