Elfenesh Alemu
Elfenesh Alemu was born in Arsi Zone, Oromia Region, Ethiopia on June 10th, 1975 and is the Runner. At the age of 48, Elfenesh Alemu biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Elfenesh Alemu (born 10 June 1975 in Lemo Arya, Arsi Zone) is an Ethiopian long-distance runner who specialises in the marathon. * She represented Ethiopia at the Summer Olympics in 2000 and 2004. * She also competed in the marathon at the World Championships in Athletics four times in a row from 1997 to 2003. Alemu began competing in 1993 and won the African Marathon Championships the following year. * She earned the bronze medal at the 1995 All-Africa Games two years later. * She was the first Ethiopian woman to win the Amsterdam Marathon in 1997. * She also won the Nagano Olympic Commemorative Marathon in 2000. * At the London Marathon in 2001, she set a new personal record of 2:24:29, earning her her fifth position in the rankings. She placed third at the 2002 Boston Marathon and then won the Tokyo International Women's Marathon in 2003. * She married Gezahegne Abera, the 2000 Olympic marathon champion, this year. Alemu returned to Boston in both 2004 and 2005, finishing as the runner-up on both occasions. * She ran a time record of 1:12:57 in 2005 at the San Blas Half Marathon in Puerto Rico, her eleventh appearance in the 2009 Chicago Marathon, and she took a break from running in 2010. * She was part of an Ethiopian sweep of the 2011 Mumbai Marathon with Koren Yal and Merima Mohammed, finishing third in a time of 2:29:04 hours.