Zeineba Yimer
Appearance
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Nationality | Ethiopian | ||||||||||||||||||||
Born | 17 June 1998 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Country | Ethiopia | ||||||||||||||||||||
Sport | Athletics | ||||||||||||||||||||
Event | Long-distance running | ||||||||||||||||||||
Team | NN Running Team | ||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Zeineba Yimer (born 17 June 1998) is an Ethiopian long-distance runner. She represented Ethiopia at the 2019 African Games in Rabat, Morocco and won the silver medal in the women's 10,000 metres event.[1][2]
Career
In 2017, Zeineba Yimer won the Great Ethiopian Run held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.[3]
She finished in fifth place at the 2018 IAAF World Half Marathon Championships in Valencia, Spain.[4] In the team event Yimer, Netsanet Gudeta and Meseret Belete won the gold medal with a combined time of 3:22:27. In 2020, she competed in the women's half marathon at the 2020 World Athletics Half Marathon Championships held in Gdynia, Poland.[5]
Yimer competed in the women's marathon at the delayed 2020 Tokyo Olympics.[6]
Achievements
Year | Competition | Venue | Position | Event | Notes |
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2017 | Great Ethiopian Run | Addis Ababa, Ethiopia | 1st | 10,000 m | 32:30 |
2018 | World Half Marathon Championships | Valencia, Spain | 5th | Half marathon | 1:08:07 |
1st | Half marathon | 3:22:27 | |||
2019 | African Games | Rabat, Morocco | 2nd | 10,000 m | 31:57.95 |
2020 | World Half Marathon Championships | Gdynia, Poland | 4th | Half marathon | 1:05:39 |
2021 | Olympic Games | Sapporo, Japan | – | Marathon | DNF |
References
- ^ "Gemechu leads Ethiopian 10,000m sweep at African Games". World Athletics – News. 29 August 2019. Retrieved 27 December 2019.
- ^ "2019 African Games – Athletics – Results Book" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 1 September 2019. Retrieved 7 September 2019.
- ^ "Molla and Yimer win Ethiopian Half Marathon titles". World Athletics – News. 28 January 2018. Retrieved 27 December 2019.
- ^ "2018 IAAF World Half Marathon Championships - Half Marathon Women Results" (PDF). IAAF. Retrieved 27 December 2019.
- ^ "Women's Half Marathon" (PDF). 2020 World Athletics Half Marathon Championships. Archived (PDF) from the original on 17 October 2020. Retrieved 17 October 2020.
- ^ "Athletics - YIMER Zeineba". Tokyo 2020 Olympics. Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Archived from the original on 2021-08-09. Retrieved 2021-08-09.
External links
Categories:
- Living people
- 1998 births
- Ethiopian female long-distance runners
- African Games silver medalists for Ethiopia
- African Games medalists in athletics (track and field)
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2019 African Games
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2020 Summer Olympics
- Olympic athletes for Ethiopia
- Olympic female marathon runners
- 21st-century Ethiopian women
- 21st-century Ethiopian people
- Ethiopian athletics biography stubs