This article is about a person whose name includes a patronymic. The article properly refers to the person by her given name, Ejegayehu, and not as Dibaba.
Ejegayehu Dibaba
Personal information
Native name
Ijigaayoo Dibaabaa
Birth name
እጅጋዬሁ ዲባባ
Born
(1982-03-21) March 21, 1982 (age 42) Bekoji, Arsi Province, Ethiopia
Relative(s)
Tirunesh and Genzebe Dibaba (sisters), Derartu Tulu (cousin)
Sport
Country
Ethiopia
Sport
Athletics
Event
Long-distance running
Medal record
Women's athletics
Representing Ethiopia
Olympic Games
2004 Athens
10,000 m
World Championships
2005 Helsinki
5000 m
2005 Helsinki
10,000 m
Afro-Asian Games
2003 Hyderabad
10,000 m
All-Africa Games
2003 Abuja
10,000 m
African Championships
2008 Addis Ababa
10,000 m
2002 Radès
5000 m
World Cross Country Championships
2004 Brussels
Senior race
Ejegayehu Dibaba Keneni (Oromo: Ijigaayoo Dibaabaa; Amharic: እጅጋዬሁ ዲባባ); born 21 March 1982, in Bekoji) is an Ethiopian long-distance runner. She won the silver medal in the 10,000 metres at the 2004 Athens Olympics. Ejegayehu earned bronze medals in the 5,000 metres and 10,000 metres events at the 2005 World Championships in Athletics. She took gold medals in the 10,000 m at the 2003 Afro-Asian Games and All-Africa Games.
Ejegayehu comes from a sporting family of several Olympic medalists, including her sisters Tirunesh and Genzebe, and her cousin Derartu Tulu.
EjegayehuDibaba Keneni (Oromo: Ijigaayoo Dibaabaa; Amharic: እጅጋዬሁ ዲባባ); born 21 March 1982, in Bekoji) is an Ethiopian long-distance runner. She won the...
medalists, which includes her sisters Genzebe and Ejegayehu, and her aunt Derartu Tulu. The matriarch of the Dibaba athletics dynasty, Tirunesh is the most decorated...
medals and world records. She is the middle sister of Ejegayehu and Genzebe Dibaba. EjegayehuDibaba, Ethiopian long-distance runner and 2004 Olympic silver...
village as Kenenisa Bekele. She is the cousin of EjegayehuDibaba, Tirunesh Dibaba and Genzebe Dibaba. Derartu is the first Ethiopian woman and the first...
medalists, which includes her sisters Tirunesh and Ejegayehu, and her aunt Derartu Tulu. Genzebe Dibaba is a member of the Oromo ethnic group from the high...
part of WMM Caroline Kilel Mary Keitany (1/7) Florence Kiplagat (1/4) EjegayehuDibaba Firehiwot Dado Edna Kiplagat (Daegu) WCh (2/6) 2012 Was not part of...
Republic of China from August 8 to August 24, 2008. 10,000 m runner Tirunesh Dibaba ran the second fastest 10,000 metres of all time, setting an Olympic record...
taking silver behind compatriot Tirunesh Dibaba in 2008, before regaining the title in London in 2012. Defar and Dibaba are the only athletes with three Olympic...
footballer 1982 – Maria Elena Camerin, Italian tennis player 1982 – EjegayehuDibaba, Ethiopian runner 1982 – Aaron Hill, American baseball player 1982...
Kenya's Moses Mosop in a time of 2:05:37 hours – a course record. EjegayehuDibaba, making her marathon distance debut, was the women's winner in 2:22:09...
Championships. Running at the 2009 Adidas Track Classic, she beat EjegayehuDibaba in the 5000 metres in her first career sub-15 minutes performance of...
000 m at the 2003 All-Africa Games, finishing behind fellow Ethiopian EjegayehuDibaba. Her season peaked at the 2003 World Championships in Athletics where...
at four. Tirunesh Dibaba and her sister EjegayehuDibaba were both a part of two of those sweeps, another sister Genzebe Dibaba and cousin Derartu Tulu...
Djalma Dias Djalminha Association football Brazil EjegayehuDibaba, Tirunesh Dibaba, Genzebe Dibaba Track and field Ethiopia Peter Dibben, Jonathan Dibben...
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