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- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- Puerto Rico
Discography
- Jet privado2009
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Academic profile · OpenAlex
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- Works
- 1
- Cited by
- 0
Research areas
RefugeePolitical scienceDevelopment economicsLawEconomics
Most cited works
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 15,975x
- Global, regional, and national age-sex-specific mortality for 282 causes of death in 195 countries and territories, 1980–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017
· 2018 · cited 6,192x
- Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 310 diseases and injuries, 1990–2015: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015
· 2016 · cited 5,699x
- Global, regional, and national burden of diabetes from 1990 to 2021, with projections of prevalence to 2050: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021
· 2023 · cited 4,101x
- Global, regional, and national comparative risk assessment of 84 behavioural, environmental and occupational, and metabolic risks or clusters of risks for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017
· 2018 · cited 3,908x
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Quotes
- “I really did not get any encouragement from anyone, but I pushed on because I liked to run. I made my first national team in 1988.”
- “I knew I would be the Olympic Champion. I was running and the others were looking backwards, so I understood that they were tired, when for me the pace was easy. It was nice, because I could run strong and enjoy.”
- “I knew of 1960 Olympic marathon winner Abebe Bikila and 1968 winner Mamo Wolde from the radio, so I thought I’d try it, too.”
- “They thought I should be doing women things.”
- “I do not really want to be famous,But it's nice to be among the renowned athletes.”
- “I am hoping to make history, I feel like I have made good preparation.”
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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1973-12-18 ) December 18, 1973 (age 52) , Bekoji , Ethiopia
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- Ethiopia
- Place of birth
- Addis Ababa
- Occupation
- athletics competitor
- Participant in
- 1996 Summer Olympics
- Sport
- athletics
- Country for sport
- Ethiopia
- Mass
- 49
- Height
- 160
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- date of birth
- 1970-12-18
- sports discipline competed in
- marathon
- competition won
- athletics at the 1996 Summer Olympics – women's marathon
Sources (1)
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Encyclopedic overview
Fatuma Roba (Amharic: ፋጡማ ሮባ; born 18 December 1973) is an Ethiopian long-distance runner, best known for being the first African woman to win a gold medal in the women's Olympic marathon race, at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, and for winning three successive Boston Marathons.
Early life
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Fatuma Roba” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.