Ethiopian Elites
Arlington Cooperation Foundation works with many Ethiopian Elite athletes:
Female Athletes:
Genet Gebretinsae Gebregiorgis
| 1st female at Lawyers Have Heart 10K, June 14, 2008, Washington DC in 35:57
| 1st female at 5th Annual Stop the Silence 10K, April 13, 2008, Washington DC in 34:34
| 3rd female at 15th Annual New Balance Moonlight Run, Milford CT 16:25
Hirut Mengistu Mandefro | Photo 7 | Photo 8 | Photo 9 | Photo 10 | Photo 11 | Photo 12 | Photo 13
| winner of 2008 Komen National Race for the Cure 5K on June 7, 2008, in 17:38
Teyba Naser
| Second behind Olympic Trials qualifier Samia Akbar at SunTrust National Half Marathon in
1:17:00,
after leading early in the race (photo by Kate Renner)
| A citizen of Bahrain but a native of Ethiopia, Naser’s birth name was Misiker Mekonnin.
| She won DC’s last two St. Patrick's Day 8Ks --
29:10 in 2007
and
28:52 in 2008
.
| Her 16:39 won 2007 Susie's Cause 5K Run in Baltimore.
| Her 34:10 earned her fifth at 2006 Tufts Health Plan 10K in Boston
| Her 1:18:45 at 2007 Parkersburg News and Sentinel Half Marathon placed her third.
She runs more than 50 races a year up and down the East Coast, nearly always finishing among the top women.
Male Athletes:
Zereu Kelele Gebremedhin, general manager | 1:05:43 half marathon runner |e-mail zeruegmedhin@yahoo.com, 202-631-7410 - fluent in Amharic, English, Tigrinya
Yonas Ayanaw Mekonnon, assistant manager | 1:09:34 half marathon runner
Abiyot Abebe | Resume | winner of 2008 Komen National Race for the Cure 5K on June 7, 2008, in 15:33
Mohamed Awol | 2:20:20 marathoner
Gena Ketebo | 2:20:45 marathoner
Gurmessa Kumssa Megerssa | 28:48 10K runner
Dejene Nigussie Regassa | 2:11:29 marathoner
Samuel Woldeamanuel Gebremichael | 2:13:19 marathoner at 2006 Amsterdam, Netherlands -- 9th in a world-class field.
Now visiting the USA for the first time, Gebremichael won 2008 Shamrock Marathon in March in 2:22:40
About Ethiopian names:
Many Ethiopians have two last names.
On their passports (and on the Green Cards if they have them),
the left-hand last name is their father's name;
the right-hand last name is their grandfather's name.
In the future, some the text on this page will be in Amharic.
Install font, amharic keyboard, manual from www.ethiopic.org
Install Jiret font from www.senamirmir.com
Other fonts from www.wikipedia.org
Photo: Zereu and Teyba at Friends of W&OD 10K (also Birhanu Wukaw and Abreha Assefa)
