Ethiopian Elites
Marathon Charity Cooperation works with many Ethiopian Elite athletes:
Female athletes:
Misiker ("Missie") Mekonnin Demissie (running as Teyba Naser) won
P.F. Chang's Rock'n'Roll Marathon in January 2010 in a course-record 2:30:39.
Two months later, she topped that time, running 2:26:20 for second place at Los Angeles Marathon | Photo | Photo
Her fastest half-marathon was 2009 Spirit of Columbus Half Marathon, first in 1:10:21, ahead of Belainesh Gebre and Caroline Rotich.
She won the 2008 Manchester Road Race in 25:00, ahead of Amy Rudolph;
she finished third there in 2009 in 25:29, just three seconds behind winners Alemtsehay Misganaw and Amy Rudolph.
She finished third in 53:58 at Credit Union Cherry Blossom Ten Mile Run in Washington DC on Sunday, April 5, 2009, ahead of Catherine Ndereba.
Those are significant improvements over an already-excellent resume:
She finished 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)
| 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 nationwide, always finishing among the top women.
| A citizen of Bahrain but a native of Ethiopia, Naser’s birth name was Misiker Mekonnin.
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
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
Girma Tola | winner of 2007 Mayor’s Cup Cross Country 8K in 23:18 | 2004 Enschede Marathon in 2:10:33 | second place at 2009 Nagano Marathon in 2:12:11 | third at 2010 Salt Lake City Deseret News 10K in 27:46.0 | seventh at 2010 Santa Cruz Wharf-to-Wharf 6M in 28:01
Abiyot Abebe | Resume | winner of 2008 Komen National Race for the Cure 5K on June 7, 2008, in 15:33
Yibeltal Admassu, 4th at 2004 World Championship 10,000m
Mohamed Awol | 2:20:20 marathoner
Gena Ketebo | 2:20:45 marathoner
Gurmessa Kumssa Megerssa has won countless local races. Washington Running Report ranked him #1 in the region in 2006 and 2007. He is a
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.
May 29-30-31, 2010 -- Special Showing of the Abebe Bikila documentary "Green Flood" -- Lalibela Restaurant, 3111 Columbia Pike, Arlington VA
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 Kelele and Misiker Mekonnin at Friends of W&OD 10K (also Birhanu Wukaw and Abreha Assefa)
