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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1991-11-21 ) 21 November 1991 (age 34) , Wenbera , Benishangul-Gumuz Region , Ethiopia
- Height
- 1.66 m (5 ft 5 in)
- Weight
- 47 kg (104 lb)
- Country
- Ethiopia
- Sport
- Athletics
- Event
- Long-distance running
- Team
- NN Running Team (2022–)
- Olympic finals
- 2016 Rio 5000 m, Bronze 10,000 m, Gold
- World finals
- 2013 Moscow 5000 m, Bronze 2015 Beijing 5000 m, Gold 2017 London 5000 m, Silver 10,000 m, Gold
- Personal bests
- 5000 m : 14:12.59 ( Rome 2016) 10,000 m : 29:17.45 ( Rio de Janeiro 2016) Road Half marathon : 65:30 ( Lisbon 2023) Marathon : 2:17:20 ( Amsterdam 2022)
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- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- Ethiopia
- Place of birth
- Benishangul-Gumuz Region
- Occupation
- athletics competitor
- Languages spoken
- Amharic
- Participant in
- athletics at the 2016 Summer Olympics
- Sport
- athletics
- Country for sport
- Ethiopia
- Mass
- 47
- Image
- Almaz Ayana Beijing 2015.jpg
- Height
- 1.66
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- date of birth
- 1991-11-21
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- Almaz Ayana
- sports discipline competed in
- long-distance running
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Encyclopedic overview
Almaz Ayana Eba (Oromo: Almaaz Ayyanaa Eebbaa; Amharic: አልማዝ አያና ኤባ, born 21 November 1991) is an Ethiopian long-distance runner. She won the gold medal in the 10,000 metres and bronze in the 5,000 metres at the 2016 Rio Olympics. Almaz is a four-time World Athletics Championships medallist earning a bronze for the 5,000m in 2013, gold at the event in 2015 as well as gold in the 10,000m and silver in the 5,000m in 2017.
She broke the 10,000 metres world record, set in 1993, while winning the gold medal at the Rio Olympics and held it until 2021. At the 2017 World Championships in London, Almaz won the title in the 10,000m, finishing 46 seconds ahead of the runner-up. She finished third in both the 5,000m and 10,000m on the respective world all-time lists. In 2016, she was voted IAAF Female World Athlete of the Year.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Almaz Ayana” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.