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Haile Gebrselassie in 2003.

Sports in Ethiopia include many fields, although Ethiopia is best known internationally for its middle-distance and long-distance runners. Seifu Mekonnen was an Olympic contestant for Ethiopia in boxing. The Ethiopian national football team won the 1962 African Cup of Nations. There are also traditional sports events, such as stick fighting which is popular amongst the Surma and Nyangatom people.

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Sport in Ethiopia

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Sports in Ethiopia include many fields, although Ethiopia is best known internationally for its middle-distance and long-distance runners. Seifu Mekonnen...

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Ethiopia at the Olympics

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Ethiopia first participated at the Olympic Games in 1956, and has sent athletes to compete in Summer Olympic Games since then, except for the 1976, 1984...

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Football in Ethiopia

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Football is the most popular sport in Ethiopia. Although not one of the leading footballing nations in Africa, Ethiopia has produced some outstanding teams...

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Ethiopia

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Ethiopia, officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, is a landlocked country located in the Horn of Africa region of East Africa. It shares...

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Ethiopian Broadcasting Corporation

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by the Ethiopian government. Its programming includes news, sport, music and other entertainment. The majority of the programming is broadcast in Amharic...

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Ethiopia national football team

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The Ethiopia national football team (Amharic: የአትዮጵያ ብሔራዊ እግር ኳስ ቡድን), nicknamed Walia, after the Walia ibex, represents Ethiopia in men's international...

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Culture of Ethiopia

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Ethiopia is one of the few countries with so many traditional aspects and cultural mannerism. The country that is located in the horn of Africa has many...

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Ethiopian Athletics Federation

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Ethiopian Athletic Federation (EAF) is an WA recognized member officially representing Ethiopia as the national governing body for the sport of Athletics...

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List of football clubs in Ethiopia

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Football is Ethiopia's most popular sport. Ethiopia has produced numerous exceptional clubs and international teams, as well as some talented individual...

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Ethiopian Christmas

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Catholic denominations in Ethiopia, on 7 January (Tahsas 29 in the Ethiopian calendar). One of the district features of Ethiopian Christmas is a traditional...

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Rugby union in Ethiopia

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Rugby union in Ethiopia is a minor but growing sport in the Horn of Africa country. Sporting activities in Ethiopia have traditionally mainly focused...

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Tigst Assefa

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1996) is an Ethiopian long-distance runner and the marathon female world record holder. She is the only woman in history to run a marathon in under two...

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Ethiopian cuisine

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question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of Ethiopic characters. Ethiopian cuisine (Amharic: የኢትዮጵያ ምግብ "Ye-Ītyōṗṗyā məgəb") characteristically consists...

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Addis Ababa

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lit. 'new flower' [adˈdis ˈabəba] ) is the capital and largest city of Ethiopia. In the 2007 census, the city's population was estimated to be 2,739,551...

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Alemu Megertu

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October 1997) is an Ethiopian long-distance runner. She finished third and second at the 2022 and 2023 London Marathon respectively. In 2019, Alemu Megertu...

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Mahamed Mahamed

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emigrated from Ethiopia to Southampton in England with his family in 2011 when he was fourteen years-old. He attended Cantell School in Bassett, Southampton...

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Abebe Bikila

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Infantry Regiment of the Ethiopian Imperial Guard, an elite infantry division that safeguarded the emperor of Ethiopia. Abebe served in the Kagnew Battalion...

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Fotyen Tesfay

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is an Ethiopian long-distance runner. In 2019, she competed in the senior women's race at the 2019 IAAF World Cross Country Championships held in Aarhus...

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Birke Haylom

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January 2006) is an Ethiopian long-distance runner. She won gold at the 1500 metres at the 2022 World Athletics U20 Championships. In February 2023 she...

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Leul Gebresilase

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September 1992) is an Ethiopian long-distance runner. He won the silver medal at the 2022 London Marathon. In 2015, Gebresilase earned silver in the 5000 metres...

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Brendan Foster

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the Great North Run, one of the sport's most high profile half-marathon races. As an athlete, he won the bronze medal in the 10,000 metres at the 1976 Summer...

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Ethiopian Athletics Championships

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which serves as the national championship for the sport in Ethiopia. The competition was first held in 1971. Separate annual championship events are held...

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