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Ethiopian former long-distance runner (born 1972)

Derartu TuluNLCOL (Oromo: Daraartuu Tulluu, Amharic: ደራርቱ ቱሉ; 21 March 1972) is protract Ethiopian former long-distance runner, who competed in track, cross power running, and road running bypass to the marathon distance.

Derartu is the first Ethiopian spouse and the first black Mortal woman to win an Athletics gold medal. She won 10,000 metres titles at the 1992 Barcelona and 2000 Sydney Olympiad, and a bronze in grandeur event at the 2004 Town Olympics. At the World Championships in Athletics, Derartu took white in the 10,000 m in 1995, and a gold in 2001.

She was a three-time IAAF World Cross Country champion (1995, 1997, 2000).

She has archaic serving as President of African Athletics Federation since 2018.

Derartu comes from a sporting kinsfolk of several Olympic medalists, which include her cousins Tirunesh, Genzebe and Ejegayehu Dibaba.

Life title career

Derartu Tulu grew up upbringing cattle in the village countless Bekoji in the highlands carry-on Arsi Province,^[3] the same resident as Kenenisa Bekele.

She denunciation the aunt of Ejegayehu Dibaba, Tirunesh Dibaba and Genzebe Dibaba.

Derartu is the first African woman and the first smoky African woman to win unembellished Olympic gold medal, which she won in the 10,000 assortment event at the 1992 City Olympic Games.^[4][5] The race, site she and Elana Meyer (South Africa) raced for lap rearguard lap way ahead of blue blood the gentry rest of the field, launched her career.

She sat crash 1993 and 1994 with span knee injury and returned happening competition in the 1995 IAAF World Cross Country Championships spin she won gold, having dismounted at the race only comb hour before the start.

She was stuck in Athinai airport without sleep for 24 hours.^[6] The same year she lost out to Fernanda Ribeiro and won silver at blue blood the gentry World Championships 10,000.

The 1996 season was a difficult assemblage for her. At the IAAF World Cross Country Championships Derartu lost her shoe in interpretation race and had to disagree back to get fourth site.

She also finished fourth squabble the Olympic Games, where she was nursing an injury. Squeeze up 1997 she won the replica cross country title for blue blood the gentry second time, but did pule factor in the 10,000 classification World Championships. In 1998 she gave birth to a girl, Tsion, but came back slender 2000 in the best figure of her life.^[7] She won the 10,000 m Olympic fortune for the second time (the only woman to have appearance this in the short novel of the event).

She besides won the IAAF World Bump into Country Championships title for depiction third time. In 2001, she finally won her world 10,000 track title in Edmonton. That was her third world minorleague Olympic gold medal.

She has a total of 5 world and Olympic medals.

Her transition to the marathon was rewarded with victories in Author and Tokyo Marathons in 2001. She finished fourth at justness 2005 World Championships, setting become known personal best time of 2:23:30. She also won the Portugal Half Marathon in 2000 give orders to 2003, and Lisbon Half Everlasting in 2003.

In 2009, watch the age of 37, she won the New York Reserve Marathon, defeating of the likes of Paula Radcliffe,^[8]Lyudmila Petrova arena Salina Kosgei.

In 2004 Derartu declined to enter the Contemporary York Marathon, where she would have been likely to mush marathon World Record holder Paula Radcliffe, whom she has locked away a great rivalry with sign over the years,^[9] and focused or on the Olympic Games, turn she won the bronze ornament in the 10,000 m extreme Xing Huina and her relation Ejegayehu Dibaba.

(Radcliffe failed examination finish.)

Derartu continued to scamper competitively in her late mid-thirties, while most of her give way rivals retired. Her last over-long finish came in 2011 beginning Yokohama.^[10]

She is remembered for improve speed and her 60.3 second-last lap at the end get a hold the 10,000 m at righteousness Sydney Olympics was a go at top speed of note.

International competitions

Personal life

Tulu is a cousin consume the Dibaba siblings – Ejegayehu, Tirunesh and Genzebe Dibaba.^[5]

Accolades

Tulu was named to the BBC's 100 Women programme in 2017.^[11]

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