This article is about a person whose name includes a patronymic. The article properly refers to the person by her given name, Almaz, and not as Ayana.
Almaz Ayana
Almaz at the 2015 World Championships in Athletics in Beijing
Personal information
Born
(1991-11-21) 21 November 1991 (age 32) Wenbera,[1] Benishangul-Gumuz Region, Ethiopia[2]
Height
1.66 m (5 ft 5 in)
Weight
47 kg (104 lb)[3]
Sport
Country
Ethiopia
Sport
Athletics
Event
Long-distance running
Team
NN Running Team (2022–)
Achievements and titles
Olympic finals
2016 Rio
5000 m, Bronze
10,000 m, Gold
World finals
2013 Moscow
5000 m, Bronze
2015 Beijing
5000 m, Gold
2017 London
5000 m, Silver
10,000 m, Gold
Personal bests
5000 m: 14:12.59 (Rome 2016)
10,000 m: 29:17.45 (Rio de Janeiro 2016)
Road
Half marathon: 65:30 (Lisbon 2023)
Marathon: 2:17:20 (Amsterdam 2022)
Medal record
Women's athletics
Representing Ethiopia
Olympic Games
2016 Rio de Janeiro
10,000 m
2016 Rio de Janeiro
5000 m
World Championships
2015 Beijing
5000 m
2017 London
10,000 m
2017 London
5000 m
2013 Moscow
5000 m
Diamond League
2016
5000 m
African Championships
2014 Marrakech
5000 m
Representing Africa
Continental Cup
2014 Marrakech
5000 m
Almaz Ayana Eba (Oromo: Almaaz Ayyanaa Eebbaa; Amharic: አልማዝ አያና ኤባ, born 21 November 1991[4]) is an Ethiopian female long-distance runner. She won the gold medal in the 10,000 metres and bronze in the 5,000 metres at the 2016 Rio Olympics. Almaz is a four-time World Athletics Championships medallist earning a bronze for the 5,000m in 2013, gold at the event in 2015 as well as gold in the 10,000m and silver in the 5,000m in 2017.
She broke the 10,000 metres world record, set in 1993, while winning the gold medal at the Rio Olympics and held it until 2021. At the 2017 World Championships in London, Almaz won the title in the 10,000m, finishing 46 seconds ahead of the runner-up. She finished third in both the 5,000m and 10,000m on the respective world all-time lists. In 2016, she was voted IAAF Female World Athlete of the Year.
Almaz set the fastest ever women's marathon debut at the 2022 Amsterdam Marathon.
^Haileegziabher Adhanom. 'This is just the beginning' Ethiopia's distance queen Almaz Ayana insists. August 7, 2017. Association Internationale De La Presse Sportive.
^"Rome: Ayana, the feather of 5000 meters". IAAF Diamond League. 26 May 2016. Archived from the original on 22 August 2016. Retrieved 12 August 2016.
^"Almaz Ayana". Rio2016. Archived from the original on 6 August 2016. Retrieved 12 August 2016.
^"Almaz AYANA – Athlete Profile". World Athletics. Retrieved 1 January 2023.
AlmazAyana Eba (Oromo: Almaaz Ayyanaa Eebbaa; Amharic: አልማዝ አያና ኤባ, born 21 November 1991) is an Ethiopian female long-distance runner. She won the gold...
competitors included Genzebe Dibaba, the record holder in the 1,500 metres and AlmazAyana, who won the 10,000 metres event at the 2016 Summer Olympics. Sifan Hassan...
Championships in London in August, finishing 46.37 seconds behind AlmazAyana. Ayana broke open the race at the 4000 metres mark, running her next 1000...
November 2015. Retrieved 25 October 2023. Mark Crellin, "Usain Bolt and AlmazAyana named the top athletes of the year", Sky Sports, 2 December 2016. Retrieved...
Maracanã Stadium. On the first day, the first gold medal was won by AlmazAyana of Ethiopia, who broke a long-standing world record in the women's 10...
Tola in 2021 and the current women's course record is 2:17:20 set by AlmazAyana in 2022. Gerard Nijboer won this marathon four times, more than any other...
the Ethiopian Championships to finish third with a time of 16:19.30. AlmazAyana won with a time of 16:11.40, and Kidsan Alema was second with 16:13.48...
world record of 29:06.82 in Hengelo, beating 2016 record of Ethiopian AlmazAyana by more than 10 seconds. Hassan lost the record two days later, however...
running, reigning world champions Mare Dibaba (women's marathon) and AlmazAyana, and freestyle swimmer Robel Kiros Habte, who was appointed as the nation's...
world record until the 2016 Olympics when it was smashed by Ethiopian AlmazAyana. On 11 September, she finished second in 1500 m behind her teammate,...
manages include Eliud Kipchoge, Geoffrey Kamworor, Kenenisa Bekele, and AlmazAyana. Global Sports Communication was founded by sports manager and Dutch...
2:16:16 Wo Peres Jepchirchir Kenya 21 April 2024 London 12 15 2:16:22 AlmazAyana Ethiopia 3 December 2023 Valencia 16 2:16:23 Wo Assefa #3 21 April 2024...
Vivian Cheruiyot in an Olympic record of 14:26.17 and ahead of Ethiopia's AlmazAyana who ran 14:33.59. Obiri represented Kenya at the 2017 World Championships...
debuted in the marathon at the Amsterdam Marathon, placing second behind AlmazAyana with a time of 2:18:05, a performance which ranked her in the world all-time...
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