Tsehay Gemechu

Tsehay Gemechu (born 12 December 1998)[1] is an Ethiopian long-distance runner. She represented Ethiopia in the women's 5000 metres at the 2019 World Athletics Championships, finishing fourth.[2][3] Gemechu won the 10,000 metres at the 2019 African Games.

Tsehay Gemechu
Personal information
NationalityEthiopian
Born (1998-12-12) 12 December 1998
Sport
SportAthletics
Event(s)
Medal record
Women's athletics
Representing  Ethiopia
African Games
Gold medal – first place2019 Rabat10,000 m
World Marathon Majors
Silver medal – second place2023 TokyoMarathon

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.[4] She competed in the senior women's race at the 2019 IAAF World Cross Country Championships held in Aarhus, Denmark in March of that year, finishing in sixth place.[5] In August, Gemechu won the 10,000 metres at the African Games in Rabat, Morocco, and in October, placed fourth in the 5000 metres 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 2020 Tokyo Olympics in 2021, but was disqualified.[6] 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.[1]

In March 2022, Gemechu placed second at the Istanbul Half Marathon (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 marathon in October, placing third at the Amsterdam Marathon with a time of 2:18:59.[1]

Personal bests

References
  1. "Tsehay GEMECHU – Athlete Profile". World Athletics. Retrieved 2021-01-01.
  2. "5000 Metres women". iaaf.org. Retrieved 2 October 2019.
  3. "5000 Metres women". iaaf.org. Retrieved 2 October 2019.
  4. "Gemechu smashes Ethiopian 10km record in Valencia". World Athletics. 2019-01-13. Retrieved 2022-10-05.
  5. "Senior women's race" (PDF). 2019 IAAF World Cross Country Championships. Archived (PDF) from the original on 27 June 2020. Retrieved 27 June 2020.
  6. "Athletics GEMECHU Tsehay - Tokyo 2020 Olympics". Olympics.com/tokyo-2020/. Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Archived from the original on 2021-08-09. Retrieved 2021-08-09.
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