Genzebe Dibaba Keneni (
Oromo: ''Ganzabee Dibaabaa Qananii'';
Amharic
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: ገንዘቤ ዲባባ ቀነኒ; born 8 February 1991) is an Ethiopian
middle- and
long-distance runner
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. A
1500 metres
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2016 Rio Olympics
)
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, athletes = 11,238
, events = 306 in 28 sports (41 disciplines)
, opening = 5 August 2016
, closing = 21 August 2016
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silver medalist, she won a gold medal in this event and a bronze in the
5000 metres
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at the
2015 World Championships. Genzebe is the current world record holder for the 1500m, and the indoor events of the
one mile
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,
3000m and 5000m. She holds the distinction of possessing the most world records by one woman in track history, with her current haul of four, plus two world bests.
Having competed at all
World Athletics Championships
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between 2009 and 2017, Genzebe placed in the finals of all events in which she took part. She is a five-time
World Indoor champion, winning the 1500m in
2012
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, the 3000m in
2014
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and
2016
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, and securing the 1500m/3000m double in
2018
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. She was highly successful as a
junior athlete. In 2008, at age 17, she won her first
World Cross Country Championships
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under-20 title and took a silver medal in the 5000m at the
World U20 Championships. The next year, Genzebe added her second
Cross Country U20 title, and in 2010, the
World U20 Championships 5000m gold. She won the 2015
Diamond League
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title at the event. She was named
Laureus Sportswoman of the Year for 2014, and
IAAF
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World Female Athlete of the Year in 2015.
Genzebe comes from a sporting family of several Olympic medalists, which includes her sisters
Tirunesh and
Ejegayehu, and her cousin
Derartu Tulu
Derartu Tulu NL COL ( om, Daraartuu Tulluu, Amharic: ደራርቱ ቱሉ; born 21 March 1972) is an Ethiopian former long-distance runner, who competed in track, cross country running, and road running up to the marathon distance. She won 10, ...
.
Background
Genzebe Dibaba is a member of the
Oromo ethnic group from the high altitude
Arsi Zone
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Arsi is bordered on the south by Bale Zone, on the southwest by the West Arsi Zone, on the northwest by East Shewa Zone, ...
of the
Oromia Region
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It is bordered by the Somali Region to the east; the Amhara Region, the Afar Region and the ...
and comes from an athletic family. Her older sister
Tirunesh is a celebrated athlete who won many major medals. Another older sister,
Ejegayehu, won the silver medal in the
10,000 metres
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at the
2004 Summer Olympics
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, and her brother Dejene is also an athlete. Her aunt is
Derartu Tulu
Derartu Tulu NL COL ( om, Daraartuu Tulluu, Amharic: ደራርቱ ቱሉ; born 21 March 1972) is an Ethiopian former long-distance runner, who competed in track, cross country running, and road running up to the marathon distance. She won 10, ...
, 1992 and 2000 Olympic champion in 10,000 m.
Career
Genzebe won the junior women's title at both the
2008
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and
2009 IAAF World Cross Country Championships
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and finished fifth in the same event in 2007. She became the second junior woman ever to win two junior cross country championships in a row. She also competed in
IAAF Golden League
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meetings, including the Reebok Grand Prix and the Oslo
Bislett Games
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History
The first international athletics meeting at Bisl ...
. At the 2008 Bislett Games, Genzebe recorded a personal best time of 15:02.41 in the
5000 metres
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, during the same race where her sister Tirunesh set a new world record. She did the same a year later in the same race, improving her personal best by more than five seconds.
2009–2010
After winning the 5000 m at the Ethiopian Athletics Championships, she was included in the Ethiopian squad for the
2009 IAAF World Athletics Championships. In Berlin she replaced Tirunesh on Ethiopia's 5000 m team, who withdrew due to injury. Genzebe ran an excellent heat, finishing fourth and qualifying for the final where, in her first major senior championship race, she finished in eighth position. She also won the 5000 m gold at the
2009 African Junior Athletics Championships
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.
She began her 2009–10 cross country campaign with a win at the
Cross de Atapuerca
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. She also competed indoors, improving her 1500 m best to 4:04.80 at the
Indoor Flanders meeting. Despite her wins on the senior circuit, she failed to complete a hat-trick of junior race titles at the
2010 IAAF World Cross Country Championships. She performed far below expectations, ending up in eleventh and barely making it into the silver medal winning Ethiopian team. Her fortunes improved at the
2010 World Junior Championships in Athletics
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as she defeated the junior cross country winner
Mercy Cherono
Mercy Cherono Koech (born 7 May 1991) is a Kenyan professional long-distance runner. She was the silver medalist in the 5000 metres at the 2013 World Championships in Athletics.
She is a two-time world junior champion in the 3000 metres (200 ...
to take the 5000 m gold in a championship record time. In November, she took a second consecutive victory at the Cross de Atapueca, taking a prominent scalp in
Emily Chebet
Emily Chebet Muge (born 18 February 1986) is a Kenyan professional long-distance runner who specialises in the 10,000 metres and cross country running. She is a two-time winner of the IAAF World Cross Country Championships, being the gold medall ...
(the reigning senior champion).
2011–2012
She was the runner-up at the
Great Edinburgh Cross Country in January 2011 behind
Linet Masai
Linet Chepkwemoi Masai (born 5 December 1989) is a Kenyan professional long-distance runner who competes in track and cross country running events. She won her first world title in the 10,000 metres at the 2009 World Championships in Athlet ...
. She placed ninth at the
2011 IAAF World Cross Country Championships
The 2011 IAAF World Cross Country Championships took place on March 20, 2011. The races were held at the Polideportivo Antonio Gil Hernández in Punta Umbría, Spain.
Reports of the event were given for the IAAF.
Preparation
The Unit ...
two months later. Genzebe improved her 5000 m best to 14:37.56 minutes at the Bislett Games and went on to place eighth in the event at the
2011 World Championships in Athletics. After this point she began to move away from the 5000 m and focus on the
1500 metres
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instead – a move which paid significant dividends for her career.
She began 2012 with the fifth fastest ever indoor 1500 m, winning the
Weltklasse in Karlsruhe in 4:00.13 minutes. A win at the
Aviva Indoor Grand Prix preceded her first world title at the
2012 IAAF World Indoor Championships
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. Turning to the outdoor track, Genzebe ran an Ethiopian record time of 3:57.77 minutes at the
Shanghai Golden Grand Prix
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From ...
. She was third at the
Golden Gala and runner-up at the Bislett Games. She was selected for the
2012 London Olympics
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, but a hamstring injury in the final lap of her heat saw her eliminated from the competition.
2013–2014
Genzebe opened 2013 on grass, winning the 3 km competition at the
Great Edinburgh Cross Country, then took two indoor wins in Karlsruhe and Birmingham.
On 1 February 2014, in Karlsruhe, Germany, Genzebe ran 3:55.17 in the 1500 m indoor event, beating the previous indoor world record by over 3 seconds. This mark was the fastest 1500 m in the world, indoor or outdoor, since 1997.
Five days later, she improved the world indoor record in the
3000 metres
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It is debated whether the 3000m shoul ...
to 8:16.60 at the
XL Galan meet in
Stockholm
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, Sweden. In that one race, Genzebe improved her own personal record by over thirty seconds, the world record by almost seven, and even though it was set on a shorter track indoors, her time was the number four time at the distance ever. Only on one occasion has the time been bettered, that was the
1993 Chinese National Games, when three athletes
Wang Junxia
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,
Qu Yunxia
Qu Yunxia (; born 25 December 1972 in Dalian) is a Chinese Olympic athlete who specialized in the 1500 metres.
At the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona she won a bronze medal in 1500 m.
On 9 November 1993 she set the world record in the 1500 ...
and
Zhang Linli set the event on its ear, running times that had previously not been approached in two decades. In the month of February and in just 15 days Genzebe broke her third world record at indoor two-mile race at the Birmingham Indoor Grand Prix; nine minutes and 0.48 seconds was her new record that shattered Meseret Defar previous best by six seconds.
With these records, Genzebe is one of only three athletes in history to break three world records in three different events within 15 days, joining
Jesse Owens
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Owens specialized in the sprints and the long jump and was recognized in his lif ...
, who set three world records and tied another within 1 hour,
and
Usain Bolt
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An eight-ti ...
. She stands alone as the only one to do this feat in three different cities and meets, and in all individual events under FAT.
In summer
IAAF Diamond League
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competition, Genzebe won the 1500 m at Monaco.
2015
During 2015 Genzebe changed shoe sponsor. In February in
XL-Galan, Stockholm, she ran for Adidas, and in March in
Carlsbad (CA, USA), she had her first official competition in Nike dress in the 5k-race, where she missed the world record by a small margin. The change of sponsor was associated with the change of manager – from Dutch
Jos Hermens
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(Global Sports Communication) to Swedish Ulf Saletti. The manager change happened a few months before the sponsor change. Saletti was a meeting director at Stockholm
XL-Galan where she on 19 February 2015 repeated the achievement from the year before by setting a world record, now at the 5000 metres with 14:18.86.
Genzebe won the women's 5000 m at the 2015 Prefontaine Classic in
Eugene, Oregon
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As of the 2020 United States Census, ...
, in a then-personal best time of 14:19.76. She then went on to win the 5000 m at the Diamond League Meet Areva in Paris on July 4 in a new personal best time of 14:15:41. This was her fifth 5000 metres run under 14:30. Only four days later, in Barcelona, she set a new African record for the 1500 m of 3:54.11
video, virtually single-handedly running the fastest 1500 m in the world in 18 years
and the ninth fastest of all time. Six of the eight fastest times ahead of her occurred in two races at the 1993
Chinese National Games
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, where much of the running community believes the communist government was sponsoring a doping scheme in the days before serious drug testing was required. On 17 July 2015 in Monaco, Genzebe broke the 1500 m world record, which had previously been considered near-unbreakable, in a time of 3:50:07.
At the
World Championships in Beijing, she took the
1500 m title and claimed the bronze medal in the
5000 m event.
She was named the
IAAF
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women's
World Athlete of the Year
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for 2015.
2016
In February 2016, Genzebe competed in Stockholm's Globen Galan meeting. She ran the indoor mile in 4 minutes and 13.31 seconds, breaking
Doina Melinte
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's 26-year-old world record of 4:17.14, which had been set in 1990. In April, she pulled out of the Dubai Athletics President's Cup 10,000 m Olympic qualifier race due to an injury in her left foot. In a track meet in Barcelona on 30 June, she failed to finish a 5000 m race due to an injury. She was removed from the track in a wheelchair.
At the
2016 Rio Olympics
)
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, athletes = 11,238
, events = 306 in 28 sports (41 disciplines)
, opening = 5 August 2016
, closing = 21 August 2016
, opened_by = Vice President Michel Temer
, cauldron = Vanderlei Cordeiro de ...
, Dibaba run the women's 1500 m. In her heat (one out of 3) she won out of 14 runners in 4:10.61. In the semifinals (one out of 2) she was the fastest runner with 4.03.06. The final was won by
Faith Kipyegon in a time of 4:08.92. Genzebe took the silver medal in a time of 4:10.27 and
Jenny Simpson placed third for the bronze medal with 4:10.53.
2017
Genzebe broke the 2000 m indoor world record and also the absolute world record, because it lowered the outdoor mark as well, on 7 February 2017 in
Sabadell
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(Spain). She ran the distance in 5:23.75, an improvement on the former indoor best by
Gabriela Szabo
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Szabo is a three-time world c ...
from 1998 by 6 seconds. The outdoor world record was set by
Sonia O'Sullivan with 5:25.36.
An illness prevented her from running in her usual form at the
2017 World Athletics Championships
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, where she finished 12th in the
1500 metres
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. and later pulled off from the
5000 m event.
Since September she was coached by Hussein Shibo and Tolera Dinka.
2018
At the
2018 IAAF World Indoor Championships in Birmingham, she won the
1500 m and the
3000 m
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 ...
.
2019
Genzebe won the Golden Gala 1500 m in Rome on 6 June in a time of 3:56.28. She went to Rabat on 16 June and took victory over the distance in 3:55.47.
In the 1500 m Diamond League Final on 29 August in Zürich, Genzebe finished fourth in 4:00.86. The final was won by
Sifan Hassan
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in 3:57.08,
Konstanze Klosterhalfen
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was the runner up with 3:59.02 and
Gabriela DeBues-Stafford placed third in 3:59.59.
2020–2022
In her first race of any kind since August 2019, Genzebe won the delayed
Valencia Half Marathon
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in December 2020 with a time of 65:18. It was the fastest half marathon debut by a woman in history at the time.
On 16 October 2022, she debuted in the
marathon
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at the
Amsterdam Marathon
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, placing second behind
Almaz Ayana
Almaz Ayana Eba ( om, Almaaz Ayyanaa Eebbaa; am, አልማዝ አያና ኤባ, born 21 November 1991) is an Ethiopian female long-distance runner. She won the gold medal in the 10,000 metres and bronze for the 5000 metres at the 2016 Rio Olym ...
with a time of 2:18:05, a performance which ranked her in the world all-time top 20.
Achievements
All information taken from World Athletics
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profile.
Personal bests
International competitions
Circuit wins and titles
*
Diamond League
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Overall winner 5000 m:
2015
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**
2012
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(1) 1500 m:
Shanghai Diamond League ( )
**
2013
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(1) 5000 m: Shanghai
**
2014
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(2) 5000 m:
Rome Golden Gala,
Monaco Herculis
**
2015
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(3) 5000 m:
Eugene Prefontaine Classic (),
Oslo Bislett Games,
Meeting de Paris (); (1) 1500 m: Monaco ( )
**
2016
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(1) 3000 m:
Lausanne Athletissima
**
2017
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(1) 5000 m: Eugene; (1) One mile: Lausanne ()
**
2018
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(1) 5000 m: Eugene
**
2019
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(2) 1500 m: Rome,
Rabat Meeting ()
References
External links
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At Home with the Ethiopian Athletics StarTrans World Sport profile
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1991 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Oromia Region
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Olympic female long-distance runners
Olympic athletes of Ethiopia
Olympic silver medalists in athletics (track and field)
Olympic silver medalists for Ethiopia
Athletes (track and field) at the 2012 Summer Olympics
Athletes (track and field) at the 2016 Summer Olympics
Medalists at the 2016 Summer Olympics
World Athletics Championships athletes for Ethiopia
World Athletics Championships medalists
World Athletics Championships winners
World Athletics Indoor Championships winners
IAAF Continental Cup winners
Diamond League winners
World Athletics record holders
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