Egide Ntakarutimana (born 21 October 1997) is a Burundian

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based in Italy. He has represented Burundi at four

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championship events, with a best finish of 13th at the

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Career

In August 2022, Ntakarutimana won the

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5000 m in a new meeting record of 13:08.43. As of that October, Ntakarutimana was ranked first in Italy in the

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Personal life

Ntakarutimana was born in

Burundi Burundi (, ), officially the Republic of Burundi ( rn, Repuburika y’Uburundi ; Swahili language, Swahili: ''Jamuhuri ya Burundi''; French language, French: ''République du Burundi'' ), is a landlocked country in the Great Rift Valley at the ...

, but since signing with

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he moved to train at Tuscany Camp outside

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, Italy. He is a part of the Atletica Casone Noceto club, along with

Yassine Rachik Yassine Rachik (born 11 June 1993) is a Moroccan-born Italian long-distance runner who won the Italian Athletics Championships three times and also won an individual bronze medal at the 2018 European Athletics Championships. Biographhy He com ...

Statistics

Personal best progression

References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Ntakarutimana, Egide Living people 1997 births Burundian male long-distance runners Burundian male cross country runners 21st-century Burundian people Burundian expatriate sportspeople in Italy World Athletics Championships athletes for Burundi