Hailu Negussie (born April 16, 1978) is a marathon runner who was the winner of the 109th
Boston Marathon
The Boston Marathon is an annual marathon race hosted by several cities and towns in greater Boston in eastern Massachusetts, United States. It is traditionally held on Patriots' Day, the third Monday of April. Begun in 1897, the event was i ...
in 2005. He finished with a time of 2:11:45 and became the first
Ethiopia
Ethiopia, , om, Itiyoophiyaa, so, Itoobiya, ti, ኢትዮጵያ, Ítiyop'iya, aa, Itiyoppiya officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, is a landlocked country in the Horn of Africa. It shares borders with Eritrea to the ...
n to win the Boston Marathon since
Abebe Mekonnen
Abebe Mekonnen (born 16 October 1964) is an Ethiopian long-distance runner.
Mekkonen was the winner of the 93rd Boston Marathon in 1989. He also competed for Ethiopia in the 1992 Olympics and 1996 Olympics in the marathon. He did not finish i ...
won the race in 1989. His personal best for the marathon is 2:08:16.
Negussie tried to defend his Boston title in 2006. However, he dropped out of the race just past the halfway point. Kenyan
Robert Kipkoech Cheruiyot
Robert "Mwafrika" Kipkoech Cheruiyot (born 26 September 1978 in Kapsabet, Kenya), sometimes known as Omar Ahmed, is a Kenyan marathon runner and is the former record holder and four-time winner of the Boston Marathon.
Early career
Cheruiy ...
broke the course record that year. Negussie has also won the Hofu Marathon in 2002 (with a personal best time of 2:08:16) and the Xiamen Marathon (with a time of 2:09:03) in 2003. He also finished 5th in the 2003
Fukuoka Marathon
The is an IAAF Gold Label international men's marathon race held in Fukuoka, Japan. It was previously known as the Fukuoka International Open Marathon Championship between 1947 and 2021, when it was announced the race would be discontinued on its ...
and 2nd in the 2002
Hamburg Marathon
The Hamburg Marathon (german: Hamburg-Marathon) is an annual marathon race over the classic distance of held in Hamburg, Germany. In 2009, 13,938 participants were counted. The marathon is categorized as a Gold Label Road Race by World Athlet ...
.
Achievements
See also
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List of winners of the Boston Marathon
The Boston Marathon, one of the six World Marathon Majors, is a race which has been held in the Greater Boston area in Massachusetts since 1897. Until 2020, it was the oldest annual marathon in the world, a distinction now held by the Osaka-Lake ...
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*Toby Tanser
Hailu Negussie
Ethiopian male long-distance runners
1978 births
Living people
Athletes (track and field) at the 2004 Summer Olympics
Olympic athletes of Ethiopia
Boston Marathon male winners
Ethiopian male marathon runners
20th-century Ethiopian people
21st-century Ethiopian people
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