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Letesenbet Gidey
Letesenbet at the 2022 World Championships in Eugene
Personal information
Born (1998-03-20) 20 March 1998 (age 26)
Endameskel, Tigray Region, Ethiopia
Height1.66 m (5 ft 5 in)[1]
Weight50 kg (110 lb)[1]
Sport
CountryEthiopia
SportAthletics
Event(s)Track, road and cross-country long-distance running
TeamNN Running Team
Achievements and titles
Olympic finals
  • 2021 Tokyo
  • 10,000 m,  Bronze
World finals
  • 2017 London
  • 5000 m, 11th
  • 2019 Doha
  • 10,000 m,  Silver
  • 2022 Eugene
  • 5000 m, 5th
  • 10,000 m,  Gold
Personal bests
Medal record
Women's athletics
Representing  Ethiopia
Olympic Games
Bronze medal – third place 2020 Tokyo 10,000 m
World Championships
Gold medal – first place 2022 Eugene 10,000 m
Silver medal – second place 2019 Doha 10,000 m
World Cross Country Championships
Gold medal – first place 2015 Guiyang Junior race
Gold medal – first place 2015 Guiyang Junior team
Gold medal – first place 2017 Kampala Junior race
Gold medal – first place 2017 Kampala Junior team
Gold medal – first place 2019 Aarhus Senior team
Bronze medal – third place 2019 Aarhus Senior race

Letesenbet Gidey (Tigrinya: ለተሰንበት ግደይ, born 20 March 1998)[2] is an Ethiopian long-distance runner. A 10,000 metres 2020 Tokyo Olympic bronze medallist, at the World Athletics Championships she won the silver medal in the event in 2019 and a gold in 2022.

Letesenbet holds the current world records for the 5000 metres and 10,000 metres, which she set in October 2020 and June 2021 respectively. She is the first woman since Ingrid Kristiansen from 1986–1993 to hold them both simultaneously.[3][4] In October 2021, she set the world record in the half marathon, breaking previous mark by more than a minute.[5][6] She also holds the world best in the 15 km road race. Letesenbet became the first woman to break the 64- and 63-minute barriers in the half marathon and 45-minute barrier in the 15 km.

At age 17, Letesenbet won the junior race at the 2015 World Cross Country Championships. She retained this title in 2017 to take a bronze medal in the senior race in 2019.

Early life and background

Letesenbet Gidey was born in Endameskel in the Tigray Region of Ethiopia. She is the youngest of four siblings, having two brothers and a sister, and grew up on the family's farm.[7]

She was expelled from school as a 13-year-old for refusing to run in physical education classes and was only allowed to return when she agreed to take part. She then won the 2000 m / 3000 m steeplechase double for the Tigray region at the Ethiopian Schools Championships in Shashemane in late 2012.[7]

Career

Junior career

2014

On 14 June, a 16-year-old Letesenbet ran the 5000 metres at the Ethiopian Championships to finish third with a time of 16:19.30. Almaz Ayana won in a time of 16:11.40, and Kidsan Alema was second in 16:13.48.[2][8]

2015

On 1 February, she won the junior 6 km race at the Jan Meda International Cross Country in Addis Ababa – Ethiopia's trials for the World Cross Country Championships – with a time of 20:30.[9]

On 28 March, she competed at the World Cross Country Championships in Guiyang, China, winning the Under-20 world title on a 6.03 km course in a time of 19:48; together with her Ethiopian teammates Letesenbet took also the team title. At the age of 17, she was the youngest junior women's winner for 15 years.[10]

On 21 June, she won the 5000 m run in Bottrop, Germany in a time of 15:39.83. The runner-up was Jana Groß-Hardt in 17:06.33. At first, Letesenbet was disqualified because she had stepped on a marking on the track, and Groß-Hardt stood at the top of the podium during the award ceremony. Letesenbet objected to this decision, reasoning that her misstep had not given her an unfair advantage, and as a result of her appeal she was reinstated as the winner.[11][12][13]

On 15 July, she ran the 3000 m girls' race at the World U18 Championships in Cali, Colombia, finishing fourth with a time of 9:04.64.[14]

Letesenbet at the FBK Games in Hengelo in 2016

2016

On 22 May, a 18-year-old Letesenbet won the 5000 metres at the FBK Games in Hengelo, Netherlands in a time of 14:58.44.[15] On 30 June, she won the event at the track meet in Barcelona with a time of 14:45.63, defeating multiple world record holder Genzebe Dibaba who dropped out after 3600 m.[16]

2017

She won the women's junior race at the Ethiopian Cross Country championships on 13 February in Addis Ababa.[17]

On 26 March, she won the junior race on a 6 km course at the World Cross Country Championship in Kampala, Uganda.[18]

The then 19-year-old competed in the 5000 m event at the World Championships in London.[19] She advanced to the finals and finished 11th of 14 starters, stopping the clock at 15:04.99. The race was won by Hellen Obiri in a time of 14:34.86, the silver medal went to Almaz Ayana who ran 14:40.35, and Sifan Hassan was third in 14:42.74.[20]

Senior career

2018

In February, Letesenbet won the 6 km race at the sixth leg of the IAAF Cross Country Permit series taking place in San Vittore Olona, Italy. Her winning time was 18:14.[21] On 26 May, she ran the 5000 m at the Prefontaine Classic in Eugene, U.S. and placed second in a time of 14:30.29.[15] Genzebe Dibaba won in 14:26.89 and Obiri was third in 14:35.03.[22]

2019: 10,000 m World silver medallist

On 10 February, Letesenbet competed in the 10 km run at the Jan Meda Cross Country Championships in Addis Ababa, finishing second with a time of 35:55. The winner of the event was Dera Dida in 35:50.[23]

At the World Cross Country Championships in Aarhus, Denmark, she participated in the senior race. The world 5000 m champion Hellen Obiri won on the extremely hilly 10.2 km course with a time of 36:14, Dida was the runner-up in 36:16, and Letesenbet took the bronze medal clocking 36:24.

She raced the 10,000 m at the Ethiopian National championships in Addis Ababa on 8 May, winning in a time of 32:10.2.[24][25][26] On 19 May, Letesenbet ran the 10 km road race in Bengaluru, India. She placed second, with Agnes Tirop the winner and Senbere Teferi in third place. All three women finished with the same time of 33:55.[27][28] At the Diamond League Prefontaine Classic meet in Palo Alto, CA on 30 June, she took third place in a 3000 m race with a time of 8:20.27. The winner was Sifan Hassan in 8:18.49, a European record, and Konstanze Klosterhalfen was second in 8:20.07.[29][30] Seven of the top 15 runners ran personal bests.[31][32] Letesenbet won the 10,000 m Ethiopian trials on 17 July. Her winning time on the track in Hengelo, Netherlands was 30:37.89. World half marathon champion Netsanet Gudeta was the runner-up in 30:40.85.[33]

At the Diamond League final in Brussels, Letesenbet finished second in the 5000 m with a time of 14:29.54. Hassan won the race in 14:26.26.[34][35]

On 28 September, Letesenbet took the silver medal in the 10,000 m at the World Championships held in Doha, Qatar with a personal best of 30:21.23. The race was won by Hassan in a time of 30:17.33, a new Dutch national record, with Agnes Tirop third in 30:25.50.[36]

15K run World record

On 17 November 2019, Letesenbet set a new world record of 44m 20s in the 15 km road race at the Zevenheuvelenloop road race in Nijmegen, Netherlands, breaking the 2017 world record held by Joyciline Jepkosgei by one minute and 17 seconds, and becoming the first woman to run 15K under 45 minutes.[37][38] Letesenbet lowered by more than 2 minutes Tirunesh Dibaba's 2009 world record set also at the Zevenheuvelenloop in 46:28, which was in turn a 27-second improvement on the former mark at the time.[37][39] She received a prize of 50,000 euros for her world record.[40]

2020

At the Monaco Diamond League meet on 14 August, Letesenbet finished in the 5000 m race second with a time of 14:26.57. Hellen Obiri won in 14:22.12, a meeting record.[41]

5000 metres World record

On 7 October 2020, at the NN Valencia World Record Day meet, she broke Tirunesh Dibaba's 2008 record in the 5000 m taking more than 4 seconds off to stop the clock at 14m 6.62s.[42]

2021: 10,000 m Tokyo Olympic bronze medallist

10,000 metres World record

On 6 June, Sifan Hassan set a 10,000 m world record of 29:06.82. Just two days later, on 8 June, Letesenbet broke Hassan's record at the Ethiopian trials on the same track with a time of 29m 1.03s, running the last lap in 1 minute and 3 seconds.[43]

Running in the event at the delayed 2020 Tokyo Olympics in August, she took the bronze medal, however. After tactical race she led on the final bend, but was then outsprinted by both Hassan (29:55.32) and Bahrain's Kalkidan Gezahegne (29:56.18) to finish in 30:01.72.[44]

Half marathon World record

On 24 October 2021, in her half marathon debut, Letesenbet finished in 62m 52s at the Valencia Half Marathon, becoming the first woman to run under 64 minutes (legally) and under 63 minutes, and improving upon a Ruth Chepng'etich's world record by 70 seconds (52 s upon an unratified mark of Yalemzerf Yehualaw).[45]

Letesenbet (first from the left) finishes in the 5000 m final at the 2022 World Championships in Eugene

2022: 10,000 m World champion

Letesenbet claimed her first senior global title and also her first global track title at the World Championships in Eugene, Oregon in July. She held off a twin Kenyan challenge in a nail-biting finish (the top 3 were only separated by 0.13 s) to win the 10,000 metres gold, achieving a world-leading time of 30:09.94 ahead of Hellen Obiri in 30:10.02 and Margaret Kipkemboi in 30:10.07.[46] Seven days later, she also competed in the 5000 m event and finished fifth.[2]

Achievements

All information from World Athletics profile.[2]

Personal bests

Surface Event Time
(h:)m:s 		Venue Date Notes
Track 1500 metres 4:11.11 Hérouville-Saint-Clair, France 15 June 2017
3000 metres 8:20.27 Palo Alto, CA, United States 30 June 2019
5000 metres 14:06.62 Valencia, Spain 7 October 2020 World record
10,000 metres 29:01.03 Hengelo, Netherlands 8 June 2021 World record
Road 10K run 33:55 Bengaluru, India 19 May 2019
15K run 44:20 Nijmegen, Netherlands 17 November 2019 World best
Half marathon 1:02:52 Valencia, Spain 24 October 2021 Mx World record

International competitions

Year Competition Venue Position Event Result Notes
Representing  Ethiopia
2015 World Cross Country Championships Guiyang, China 1st Junior race 19:48
1st Junior team 11 pts
World Youth Championships Cali, Colombia 4th 3000 m 9:04.64 PB
2017 World Cross Country Championships Kampala, Uganda 1st Junior race 18:34
1st Junior team 19 pts
World Championships London, United Kingdom 11th 5000 m 15:04.99
2019 World Cross Country Championships Aarhus, Denmark 3rd Senior race 36:24
1st Senior team 21 pts
World Championships Doha, Qatar 2nd 10,000 m 30:21.23 PB
2021 Olympic Games Tokyo, Japan 3rd 10,000 m 30:01.72
2022 World Championships Eugene, OR, United States 5th 5000 m 14:47.98
1st 10,000 m 30:09.94 WL
Road races representing NN Running Team
2019 World 10K Bangalore Bangalore, India 2nd 10 km 33:55
Zevenheuvelenloop Nijmegen, Netherlands 1st 15 km 44:20 WB
2021 Valencia Half Marathon Valencia, Spain 1st Half marathon 1:02:52 WR

National championships

Notes

References

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Records
Preceded by Women's 5000 m World Record Holder
7 October 2020 – present 		Succeeded by
Incumbent
Preceded by Women's 10,000 m World record holder
8 June 2021 – present 		Succeeded by
Incumbent
Preceded by Women's Half marathon World record holder
24 October 2021 – present 		Succeeded by
Incumbent
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