Tirunesh Dibaba (Oromo: Xirunesh Dibaabaa, Amharic: ጥሩነሽ ዲባባ ቀነኒ; born 1 October 1985[5]) is an Ethiopian athlete who competes in long-distance track events and international road races. She has won three Olympic track gold medals, five World Championship track gold medals, four individual World Cross Country (WCC) adult titles, and one individual WCC junior title. Tirunesh was the 5,000 metres (outdoor track) world record holder until 2020 when her compatriot Letesenbet Gidey set a new world record.[6] She is nicknamed the "baby-faced destroyer."[7]
At the 2005 IAAF World Championships in Helsinki, Finland, Tirunesh became the first woman to win the 5000 m and 10000 m at the same championship. She is the one of two women (the other Sonia O'Sullivan) who won the short and long course World Cross Country title at the same championship (2005 in Saint-Galmier, France). With her 2003 World championship title, she became the youngest World Champion at the age of 18 years and 90 days.[8]
Tirunesh comes from a sporting family of several Olympic 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 of the family.[9]
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TiruneshDibaba (Oromo: Xirunesh Dibaabaa, Amharic: ጥሩነሽ ዲባባ ቀነኒ; born 1 October 1985) is an Ethiopian athlete who competes in long-distance track events...
Dibaba is an Oromo name. Notable people with the surname include: TiruneshDibaba, Ethiopian long-distance runner who has achieved multiple Olympic and...
village as Kenenisa Bekele. She is the cousin of Ejegayehu Dibaba, TiruneshDibaba and Genzebe Dibaba. Derartu is the first Ethiopian woman and the first African...
Olympic medalists, which includes her sisters Tirunesh and Ejegayehu, and her aunt Derartu Tulu. Genzebe Dibaba is a member of the Oromo ethnic group from...
taking silver behind compatriot TiruneshDibaba in 2008, before regaining the title in London in 2012. Defar and Dibaba are the only athletes with three...
second behind Swedish runner Abeba Aregawi but beat Ethiopia's Genzebe Dibaba in third. In August, at the Moscow World Championships, the 19-year-old...
multi-gold medalists Meseret Defar, Derartu Tulu, Almaz Ayana, Genzebe Dibaba and TiruneshDibaba. Ethiopia has added more events to the list of its prominence...
podium on three occasions: Defar was also the 2008 bronze medallist, TiruneshDibaba won medals from 2004 to 2012, and Paavo Nurmi won medals in the period...
in 4:03.62 after Genzebe Dibaba 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 4:10...
broke it again in 2007 and held it until 2008, when fellow Ethiopian TiruneshDibaba beat her time. In 2007 on a track in Brussels Belgium, she became the...
related to track Olympic champion, world record holder and compatriot TiruneshDibaba. Her first high-profile outing came at the Ethiopian 20 km championships...
Olympic medalists, including her sisters Tirunesh and Genzebe, and her cousin Derartu Tulu. Ejegayehu Dibaba is an Ethiopian long-distance runner from...
third fastest female athlete over that distance, behind compatriots TiruneshDibaba, the world record holder, and Meseret Defar. At the Beijing World Championships...
through 15K was 2:57 per kilometre. She lowered by more than 2 minutes TiruneshDibaba's 2009 world record set also at the Zevenheuvelenloop in 46:28, which...
champions, long-distance runners Kenenisa Bekele and TiruneshDibaba. Among these champions, Dibaba managed to defend her Olympic title, in the women's...
Jennings, who won three times; Derartu Tulu, who won three times; TiruneshDibaba, who won three times in the long course and once in the short course;...
Ethiopia's Mestawet Tufa in 2008. The record was beaten in 2009 by TiruneshDibaba, also from Ethiopia, who posted a new world record of 46:28 minutes...
three of them having won medals, including two-time defending champion TiruneshDibaba in the women's 10,000 metres, steeplechaser Sofia Assefa, and long-distance...
Former women's world record holder TiruneshDibaba (right) leading another former world record holder Meseret Defar (centre) at the 2012 Olympic 5000 m...
Pas-de-Calais (FR). The former mark of 3:55.17 set by her compatriot Genzebe Dibaba in 2014 was lowered by Tsegay to 3 minutes 53.09 seconds. In June, she posted...
Qu's record remained on the books until it was finally beaten by Genzebe Dibaba of Ethiopia when she ran 3:50.07 at the Herculis meet in Monaco on 15 July...
Republic of China from August 8 to August 24, 2008. 10,000 m runner TiruneshDibaba ran the second fastest 10,000 metres of all time, setting an Olympic...
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