Zeineba Yimer (born 17 June 1998) is an Ethiopian
long-distance runner. She
represented Ethiopia at the
2019 African Games in
Rabat, Morocco and won the silver medal in the
women's 10,000 metres event.
Career
In 2017, Zeineba Yimer won the
Great Ethiopian Run
The Great Ethiopian Run ( am, ታላቁ ሩጫ በኢትዮጵያ) is an annual 10-kilometre road running event which takes place in late November in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
Overview
The competition was first envisioned by neighbors Ethiopian runn ...
held in
Addis Ababa
Addis Ababa (; am, አዲስ አበባ, , new flower ; also known as , lit. "natural spring" in Oromo), is the capital and largest city of Ethiopia. It is also served as major administrative center of the Oromia Region. In the 2007 census, t ...
, Ethiopia.
She finished in fifth place at the
2018 IAAF World Half Marathon Championships in
Valencia
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, Spain.
In the team event Yimer,
Netsanet Gudeta
Netsanet Gudeta Kebede (born 12 February 1991) is an Ethiopian long-distance runner who competes in road running and cross country running events. She was the bronze medallist at the IAAF World Cross Country Championships in 2015. She shared in t ...
and
Meseret Belete won the gold medal with a combined time of 3:22:27. In 2020, she competed in the women's half marathon at the
2020 World Athletics Half Marathon Championships
The 2020 World Athletics Half Marathon Championships, originally scheduled for 29 March 2020 in Gdynia, Poland, was postponed until 17 October 2020, due to the coronavirus pandemic.
On , the mass participation race was cancelled, while the elite ...
held in
Gdynia
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, Poland.
Yimer competed in the
women's marathon at the delayed
2020 Tokyo Olympics
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Tokyo was selected as the List of Olympic Games h ...
.
Achievements
References
External links
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Living people
1998 births
Place of birth missing (living people)
Ethiopian female long-distance runners
African Games silver medalists for Ethiopia
African Games medalists in athletics (track and field)
Athletes (track and field) at the 2019 African Games
Athletes (track and field) at the 2020 Summer Olympics
Olympic athletes for Ethiopia
Olympic female marathon runners
21st-century Ethiopian women
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