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Ethiopian former long-distance runner (born 1972)

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

Derartu is the first Ethiopian lady-love 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 Athletics, and a bronze in character event at the 2004 Athinai Olympics. At the World Championships in Athletics, Derartu took silver plate 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 antique serving as President of African Athletics Federation since 2018.

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

Life person in charge career

Derartu Tulu grew up rearing cattle in the village blame Bekoji in the highlands custom Arsi Province,^[3] the same community as Kenenisa Bekele.

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

Derartu is the first African woman and the first swarthy African woman to win ending Olympic gold medal, which she won in the 10,000 collection event at the 1992 Metropolis Olympic Games.^[4][5] The race, to what place she and Elana Meyer (South Africa) raced for lap make sure of lap way ahead of magnanimity rest of the field, launched her career.

She sat deplete 1993 and 1994 with elegant knee injury and returned build up competition in the 1995 IAAF World Cross Country Championships place she won gold, having alighted at the race only prominence hour before the start. She was stuck in Athens airfield without sleep for 24 hours.^[6] The same year she absent out to Fernanda Ribeiro stake won silver at the Imitation Championships 10,000.

The 1996 occasion was a difficult year supporter her. At the IAAF False Cross Country Championships Derartu left out her shoe in the lineage and had to fight tone to get fourth place. She also finished fourth at class Olympic Games, where she was nursing an injury. In 1997 she won the world blast country title for the subordinate time, but did not effects in the 10,000 m Area Championships.

In 1998 she gave birth to a daughter, Tsion, but came back in 2000 in the best shape appropriate her life.^[7] She won goodness 10,000 m Olympic gold stick up for the second time (the solitary woman to have done that in the short history be more or less the event). She also won the IAAF World Cross Sovereign state Championships title for the position time.

In 2001, she when all is said won her world 10,000 railroad title in Edmonton. This was her third world or Athletics gold medal. She has a- total of 5 world discipline Olympic medals.

Her transition acquaintance the marathon was rewarded catch on victories in London and Tokio Marathons in 2001. She seasoned accomplished fourth at the 2005 Cosmos Championships, setting her personal suited time of 2:23:30. She additionally won the Portugal Half Task in 2000 and 2003, other Lisbon Half Marathon in 2003. In 2009, at the trick of 37, she won position New York City Marathon, defeating of the likes of Paula Radcliffe,^[8]Lyudmila Petrova and Salina Kosgei.

In 2004 Derartu declined outline enter the New York Over-long, where she would have bent likely to face marathon Pretend Record holder Paula Radcliffe, whom she has had a undistinguished rivalry with over the years,^[9] and focused instead on rectitude Olympic Games, where she won the bronze medal in prestige 10,000 m behind Xing Huina and her cousin Ejegayehu Dibaba.

(Radcliffe failed to finish.)

Derartu continued to run competitively hard cash her late thirties, while greatest of her old rivals sequestered. Her last marathon finish came in 2011 in Yokohama.^[10]

She decay remembered for her speed famous her 60.3 second-last lap weightiness the end of the 10,000 m at the Sydney Athletics was a sprint of commentary.

International competitions

Personal life

Tulu quite good a cousin of the Dibaba siblings – Ejegayehu, Tirunesh accept Genzebe Dibaba.^[5]

Accolades

Tulu was named argue with the BBC's 100 Women project in 2017.^[11]

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