Ethiopian marathon teams plan warm-weather stint for Beijing preparation

2 July 2008 - Ethiopia’s marathon teams for the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games may break with tradition and spend the final two weeks of their build-up to the Olympics with a spell of warm-weather training in either Japan or Korea. This news was given by Ethiopian Athletics Federation Technical Director Dube Julo, himself a former international marathon runner who has competed on more than one occasion in the Beijing Marathon held annually in October...

Prisons teams sweep top prizes at annual marathon relay

30 June 2008 – The Maremia (Prisons) team won both the men’s and women’s races in the annual marathon relay competition staged for club athletes over 42km in Addis Ababa yesterday, which followed on from the previous week’s 12km ring road relay competition. In the men’s race Defence finished 2nd and the new Alfa club 3rd, while in the women’s race Defence was 2nd and EEPCO 3rd...

Tufa blazes to fast 10,000m time in Holland

27 June 2008 – Ethiopia’s 2007 national women’s 10,000m champion Mestawot Tufa ran this year’s second fastest time for women over 10,000m when winning a race in Nijmegen, Holland on Wednesday evening...

Strong medal hopes for Ethiopia at 12th IAAF World Junior Championships

26 June 2008 - Ethiopia will send a team of 27 athletes to compete in races ranging from 400 to 10,000 meters at the 2008 IAAF World Junior Athletic Championships to be held in Bydgoszcz, Poland from 8th-13th July...

Mergessa and Gessese score repeat victories in UK

24 June 2008 – Ethiopian athletes Ayele Megersa and Roman Gessese came out as men’s and women’s winner respectively in the 2nd edition of the Jane Tomlinson 10km which took place in Leeds, UK, on Sunday morning. For both athletes it was their second win in two weeks following their victories at the Blaydon 6-mile race in Newcastle earlier this month...

Enthusiastic send-off for Ethiopia’s Olympic team at Ring Road Relay

23 June 2008 - A record number of over 1500 participants took part in the 5th edition of the Ring Road Relay staged under bright sunshine in Addis Ababa yesterday morning.

Record entry for 2008 Ring Road Relay

19 June 2008 – A record entry of more than 140 teams have already registered for the 5th edition of the Ring Road Relay which takes place in Addis Ababa this coming Sunday. This year’s race has attracted even greater interest with its link to the annual Olympic Day Run in advance of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games...

Tune strengthens case for Olympic marathon selection

18 June 2008- Few countries in the world would find it hard to omit a Major Marathon Series champion from their Olympic marathon team, but Dire Tune, who two months ago won the Boston Marathon in a time of 2:25:25, is still uncertain of her place on Ethiopia’s team for the 2008 Beijing Olympics...

Teklu Tefera wins Abebe Bekila Marathon in 2:18:51

16 June 2008 – Yesterday’s 24th running of the annual Abebe Bikila International Marathon again produced new winners who will be hoping to emulate last year’s race winner Tsegaye Kebede who used his win last year as a stepping stone to greater international success...

Bekele to race in London in countdown to Beijing

16 June 2008 – Reigning Olympic 10,000m champion Kenenisa Bekele who recorded another impressive victory with a 13:06.38 clocking over 5000m at Saturday’s CAA Super Grand Prix meeting in Rabat, Morocco – his third win in two weeks of races on three different continents - will now cut down his racing programme over the next two months as he continues his preparation for the Beijing 2008 Olympics...