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Mizan Alem wins gold in U20 World Championships Women’s 5,000m
Addis Ababa, August 22, 2021 (FBC) - Ethiopian athlete Mizan Alem has won Women’s 5,000m gold in U20 World Championships under way in Kenya.
Mizan finished the race in 16:05:61 and secured the third gold medal for Ethiopia from the 18th U20 Wold Championships.
Kenyan Cherotich and Cheptoo dropped from the leading pack with four laps to go as…
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President Sahle-Work sends Ethiopian athletics team off to Tokyo Paralympic Game
Addis Ababa, August 18, 2021 (FBC) - President Sahle-Work Zewde has sent the Ethiopian athletics team off to the Tokyo Paralympics.
Living with physical disability will not prevent people from achieving their dreams as far as they work…
Ethiopia’s Selemon wins men’s 10,000 metres
Addis Ababa, July 30, 2021 (FBC) - Selemon Barega of Ethiopia won the men’s 10,000 metres gold medal, the first of the Olympic athletics programme, on Friday, defeating world champion and world record holder Joshua Cheptegei of Uganda.…
Ethiopia’s Lamecha cruised to men’s 3,000 metres steeplechase final
Addis Ababa, July 30, 2021 (FBC) -Ethiopia's Lamecha Girma cruised to the final of the men's 3,000 metres steeplechase on Friday with the fastest time of the round of 8:09.83.
The 20-year-old world silver-medalist at the 2019 world…
Ethiopian athletes aspire triumph at Tokyo Olympics
Addis Ababa, July 23, 2021 (FBC) - Nibret Melak, 21, has been dreaming of shining at the Olympics ever since he saw his childhood idol and Ethiopia's running great Kenenisa Bekele run at the 2012 London Summer Olympics on a television…
Ethiopian Olympic athletes get send off from President Sahle-Work
Addis Ababa, July 13, 2021 (FBC) - President Sahle-Work Zewde held a send-off ceremony at the grand national palace for Ethiopia’s athletic delegation heading to Tokyo olympic.
The President handed over the Ethiopian flag to…
President Sahle-Work encourages Ethiopian team for Tokyo Olympic to aspire success
Addis Ababa, July 7, 2021 (FBC) - President Sahle-Work Zewde have encouraged the the national team for Tokyo Olympic to aspre big success in all games ahead.
The patron of the the Ethiopian Olympic team, President Sahle-Work Zewde has…