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Meseret Defar
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Ethiopian female Olympic long-distance runner
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Meseret Defar is an Ethiopian female long-distance runner and athletics competitor. Born on November 19, 1983, in Addis Ababa, she represents Ethiopia in international sports. Her athletic career includes participation in the 2004, 2008, and 2012 Summer Olympics. At the 2008 Games, she competed in the women's 5000 metres event.
Defar speaks Amharic and stands 155 centimeters tall with a mass of 45 kilograms. She is recognized as a person in music databases, though specific musical works are not detailed beyond a count of five associated entries. Her profile is referenced by 391 other encyclopedia articles.
Synthesized by Vinony from 20 facts across 5 sources: Wikidata, Crossref, MusicBrainz, Last.fm, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 1
- Total plays
- 1
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Global Burden of Cardiovascular Diseases and Risk Factors, 1990–2019
· 2020 · cited 10,215x
- Global, regional, and national life expectancy, all-cause mortality, and cause-specific mortality for 249 causes of death, 1980–2015: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015
· 2016 · cited 5,082x
- Global incidence, prevalence, years lived with disability (YLDs), disability-adjusted life-years (DALYs), and healthy life expectancy (HALE) for 371 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories and 811 subnational locations, 1990–2021: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021
· 2024 · cited 4,498x
- Causes of blindness and vision impairment in 2020 and trends over 30 years, and prevalence of avoidable blindness in relation to VISION 2020: the Right to Sight: an analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study
· 2021 · cited 2,544x
- Worldwide trends in underweight and obesity from 1990 to 2022: a pooled analysis of 3663 population-representative studies with 222 million children, adolescents, and adults
· 2024 · cited 2,064x
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Quotes
- “I think I knew what discipline was as a child growing up at home. In Ethiopia there are things that you just have to accomplish. For example, I had always had to fetch water from the nearest river and wood from the forest, even though there were hyenas all around. That’s how you learn that sometimes you have to overcome things.”
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Key facts
- Nationality
- Ethiopian
- Born
- ( 1983-11-19 ) 19 November 1983 (age 42) , Addis Ababa , Ethiopia
- Height
- 155 cm (5 ft 1 in)
- Weight
- 42 kg (93 lb)
- Country
- Ethiopia
- Sport
- Athletics
- Event s
- 3000 metres , 5000 metres
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- Ethiopia
- Place of birth
- Addis Ababa
- Occupation
- athletics competitor
- Languages spoken
- Amharic
- Sport
- athletics
- Country for sport
- Ethiopia
- Mass
- 45
- Image
- 5106 defar 3000m (26069156306).jpg
- Height
- 155
Show 3 more facts
- Commons category
- Meseret Defar
- date of birth
- 1983-11-19
- sports discipline competed in
- long-distance running
Sources (3)
via Wikidata · CC0
~8 min read
Encyclopedic overview
Olympic Games
2004 Athens5000 m
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Meseret Defar” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.