Abdisa Fayisa (born 24 April 2005) is an Ethiopian middle and

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Career

In January 2023 at the age of 17, Fayisa won the men’s 3000 meters indoor race in

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in a time of 7:40.35. He finished tenth at the 2024 World Athletics U20 Cross Country race in

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in March 2024. On 20 April 2024, he won the 5000 metres at the

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in a personal best time of 13:34.77. In June 2024, at the Ethiopian Olympic trials held in

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, Spain, Fayisa finished first in the men's 1500m in 3:32.37, meeting the Paris Olympics qualifying standards.

References

{{Ethiopia-athletics-bio-stub 2005 births Ethiopian male middle-distance runners Ethiopian male long-distance runners Living people 21st-century Ethiopian people