Tsehay Gemechu (born 12 December 1998) is an Ethiopian

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. She represented Ethiopia in the women's

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at the

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, finishing fourth. Gemechu won the

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at the

2019 African Games The 12th African Games was held from 19 to 31 August 2019 in Rabat, Morocco. This was the first time that the African Games were hosted by Morocco following the country's readmission to the African Union in January 2017. Bidding process The 12th ...

Career

Tsehay Gemechu twice won Delhi Half Marathon (2018, 2019), setting new consecutive course records. She placed second at the Great Ethiopian Run, a 10 km road race in Addis Ababa, in 2018. In 2019, she won the 10K Valencia Ibercaja, setting a new national record of 30:15 and slicing 15 seconds off Tirunesh Dibaba's previous best. She competed in the senior women's race at the

2019 IAAF World Cross Country Championships The 2019 IAAF World Cross Country Championships were hosted in the city of Aarhus in Denmark. It was the 43rd edition of the championships and was held on 30 March 2019. A part of the course was run on the grounds and grass roof of the Moesgaard ...

held in

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, Denmark in March of that year, finishing in sixth place. In August, Gemechu won the

at the African Games in

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, Morocco, and in October, placed fourth in the

event of the World Championships held in Doha, Qatar. The 22-year-old competed in the women's 10,000 metres event at the delayed

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in 2021, but was disqualified. After the Games, she won the Copenhagen Half Marathon with a new course record and personal best (1:05:08), and then the Lisbon Half Marathon. In March 2022, Gemechu placed second at the

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(1:05:52) to take her second successive Lisbon Half Marathon title two months later (1:06:44). In August, she finished second at the Antrim Coast Half Marathon in Northern Ireland, setting new personal best of 1:05:01. She debuted in the

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in October, placing third at the Amsterdam Marathon with a time of 2:18:59.

Personal bests

– 14:29.60 ( Doha 2019) *

– 30:19.29 ( Hengelo 2021) *

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– 30:15 ( Valencia 2019) * Half marathon – 1:05:01 ( Larne 2022) *

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– 2:18:59 ( Amsterdam 2022)

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Gemechu, Tsehay 1998 births Living people Ethiopian female cross country runners Ethiopian female long-distance runners World Athletics Championships athletes for Ethiopia Athletes (track and field) at the 2019 African Games African Games medalists in athletics (track and field) African Games gold medalists for Ethiopia African Games gold medalists in athletics (track and field) Athletes (track and field) at the 2020 Summer Olympics Olympic athletes of Ethiopia 20th-century Ethiopian women 21st-century Ethiopian women