This article is about a person whose name includes a patronymic. The article properly refers to the person by her given name, Genzebe, and not as Dibaba.
Genzebe Dibaba Keneni (Oromo: Ganzabee Dibaabaa Qananii; Amharic: ገንዘቤ ዲባባ ቀነኒ; born 8 February 1991) is an Ethiopian middle- and long-distance runner. A 1,500 metres 2016 Rio Olympics silver medalist, she won a gold medal in this event and a bronze in the 5,000 metres at the 2015 World Championships. Genzebe is the current world record holder for the indoor events of the one mile, 3,000m and 5,000m.
Having competed at all World Athletics Championships between 2009 and 2017, Genzebe placed in the finals of all events in which she took part. She is a five-time World Indoor champion, winning the 1,500m in 2012, the 3,000m in 2014 and 2016, and securing the 1,500m/3,000m double in 2018. She was highly successful as a junior athlete. In 2008, at age 17, she won her first World Cross Country Championships under-20 title and took a silver medal in the 5,000m at the World U20 Championships. The next year, Genzebe added her second Cross Country U20 title, and in 2010, the World U20 Championships 5,000m gold. She won the 2015 Diamond League title. She was named Laureus Sportswoman of the Year for 2014,[2] and IAAF World Female Athlete of the Year in 2015.[3]
Genzebe comes from a sporting family of several Olympic medalists, which includes her sisters Tirunesh and Ejegayehu, and her aunt Derartu Tulu.
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GenzebeDibaba Keneni (Oromo: Ganzabee Dibaabaa Qananii; Amharic: ገንዘቤ ዲባባ ቀነኒ; born 8 February 1991) is an Ethiopian middle- and long-distance runner...
and world records. She is the middle sister of Ejegayehu and GenzebeDibaba. Ejegayehu Dibaba, Ethiopian long-distance runner and 2004 Olympic silver medallist...
medalists, which includes her sisters Genzebe and Ejegayehu, and her aunt Derartu Tulu. The matriarch of the Dibaba athletics dynasty, Tirunesh is the most...
second in 4:03.62 after GenzebeDibaba who won in 4:03.06. In the final Kipyegon took the Olympic gold medal with 4:08.92, Dibaba was the runner up with...
part of a doping program. This women's record was finally broken by GenzebeDibaba of Ethiopia in 2015. In American high schools, the 1,600-metre run,...
finished second behind Swedish runner Abeba Aregawi but beat Ethiopia's GenzebeDibaba in third. In August, at the Moscow World Championships, the 19-year-old...
Olympic medalists, including her sisters Tirunesh and Genzebe, and her cousin Derartu Tulu. Ejegayehu Dibaba is an Ethiopian long-distance runner from the high-altitude...
Network & Total Running Productions Rowbottom, Mike (17 February 2016). "Dibaba and Souleiman break world indoor records in Stockholm". IAAF. Archived from...
The world indoor women's record is 8:16.60 minutes, set by Ethiopian GenzebeDibaba in 2014. Correct as of September 2023. by World Athletics source; 7:23...
village as Kenenisa Bekele. She is the cousin of Ejegayehu Dibaba, Tirunesh Dibaba and GenzebeDibaba. Derartu is the first Ethiopian woman and the first African...
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...
team featured Dibaba's younger sister and current world record holder Genzebe in middle-distance running, reigning world champions Mare Dibaba (women's marathon)...
2016). "Dibaba and Souleiman break world indoor records in Stockholm". IAAF. Retrieved 18 February 2016. Jon Mulkeen (7 February 2017). "Dibaba breaks...
Barcelona with a time of 14:45.63, defeating multiple world record holder GenzebeDibaba who dropped out after 3,600 m. She won the women's junior race at the...
the 2014 African Championships in Marrakech, she defeated favourite GenzebeDibaba to take the title in a championship record time of 15:32.72. One month...
Beijing. The record stood 22 years, until broken on 17 July 2015, by GenzebeDibaba who was the only non-Chinese athlete to seriously challenge the mark...
Sports, 21 November 2014. Retrieved 25 October 2023. "Ashton Eaton and GenzebeDibaba named IAAF’s athletes of the year", The Guardian, 26 November 2015....
Jepchirchir and 2022 winner Yalemzerf Yehualaw. Other competitors included GenzebeDibaba, the record holder in the 1,500 metres and Almaz Ayana, who won the...
Championships in Sopot, Poland, behind multiple world record-holder GenzebeDibaba. On 9 May that year at the Doha Diamond League, she set an African record...
world record mile of 3:47.01. Likewise, when converted down to 1600m, GenzebeDibaba ran an equivalent of a 4:11.84 1600m in her 2016 world record mile of...
States 4:17.14 Doina Melinte Romania February 9, 1990 East Rutherford United States 4:13.31 GenzebeDibaba Ethiopia February 17, 2016 Stockholm Sweden...
96 Kelly Holmes Great Britain 20 February 2004 Birmingham 8 2:33.06 GenzebeDibaba Ethiopia 24 February 2017 Madrid 9 2:33.75 Lucia Stafford Canada 28...
silver medal in the 1500 m two days later. Both events were won by GenzebeDibaba. In August, she won the 1500 metres title at the European Championships...
Kostadinova of Bulgaria won five gold medals in the women's high jump. GenzebeDibaba of Ethiopia won 2 gold medals in the women's 1,500m and 3 gold medals...
Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce IAAF World Athlete of the Year 2014 Succeeded by GenzebeDibaba Preceded by 1982 rowing eight Silver Ferns Hamish Bond and Eric Murray...
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