This article is about a person whose name includes a patronymic. The article properly refers to the person by her given name, Derartu, and not as Tulu (Took inspiration from Reena Ali).
Half marathon: 1:08:26 (Remich, 1995) (also 1:07:03 not legal)
Marathon: 2:23:30 (Helsinki, 2005)
Medal record
Women's athletics
Representing Ethiopia
Olympic Games
1992 Barcelona
10,000 m
2000 Sydney
10,000 m
2004 Athens
10,000 m
World Championships
2001 Edmonton
10,000 m
1995 Gothenburg
10,000 m
World Cross Country Championships
1995 Durham
Senior race
1997 Turin
Senior race
2000 Vilamoura
Senior race
President of Ethiopian Athletic Federation
Incumbent
Assumed office 14 November 2018
Preceded by
Haile Gebrselassie
Derartu Tulu NL COL (Oromo: Daraartuu Tulluu, Amharic: ደራርቱ ቱሉ; born 21 March 1972) is an Ethiopian former long-distance runner, who competed in track, cross country running, and road running up to the marathon distance.
Derartu is the first Ethiopian woman and the first African woman to win an Olympic gold medal. She won 10,000 metres titles at the 1992 Barcelona and 2000 Sydney Olympics, and a bronze in the event at the 2004 Athens Olympics. At the World Championships in Athletics, Derartu took silver in the 10,000 m in 1995, and a gold in 2001. She was a three-time IAAF World Cross Country champion (1995, 1997, 2000).
She has been serving as President of Ethiopian Athletics Federation since 2018.
Derartu comes from a sporting family of several Olympic medalists, which include her nieces Tirunesh, Genzebe and Ejegayehu Dibaba.
^Derartu Tulu CNN.com
^"Derartu Tulu", Eurosport, retrieved 1 August 2021
DerartuTulu NL COL (Oromo: Daraartuu Tulluu, Amharic: ደራርቱ ቱሉ; born 21 March 1972) is an Ethiopian former long-distance runner, who competed in track...
Look up Tulu or tulu in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Tulu may refer to: DerartuTulu (born 1972), Ethiopian long-distance runner Walid Yacoubou (born...
medalists, which includes her sisters Genzebe and Ejegayehu, and her aunt DerartuTulu. The matriarch of the Dibaba athletics dynasty, Tirunesh is the most...
medalists, including her sisters Tirunesh and Genzebe, and her cousin DerartuTulu. Ejegayehu Dibaba is an Ethiopian long-distance runner from the high-altitude...
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medalists, which includes her sisters Tirunesh and Ejegayehu, and her aunt DerartuTulu. Genzebe Dibaba is a member of the Oromo ethnic group from the high altitude...
Athletics Federation. On 14 November 2018, Double Olympic champion, DerartuTulu has succeeded Haile Gebrselassie as president of EAF. Ethiopia's kits...
known as the home town of many famous Ethiopian athletes. They include: DerartuTulu, Fatuma Roba, Tiki Gelana, Mestawet Tufa, the Bekele brothers (Kenenisa...
since Alberto Salazar in 1982) with a time of 2:09:15 while Ethiopian DerartuTulu took the women's crown in 2:28:52, the first Ethiopian woman to do so...
five times between 1967 and 1971); Lynn Jennings, who won three times; DerartuTulu, who won three times; Tirunesh Dibaba, who won three times in the long...
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in a time of 2:07:11 hours and the women's race was won by Ethiopia's DerartuTulu in 2:23:57. In the wheelchair races, France's Denis Lemeunier (1:42:37)...
at the start of 1993, Radcliffe finished second to Olympic Champion DerartuTulu. At the age of 19 Radcliffe finished in seventh place at the 1993 World...
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