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...

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.

Dibaba slashes five seconds from Defar’s 5k world record

7 June 2008 – Tirunesh Dibaba ran an amazing time of 14:11:15 to break the women’s 5000m world record at the Bislett Golden League Meeting in Oslo yesterday...

Merga warms up for Beijing with fast 21km victory in Nazreth

31 May 2008 - Deriba Merga recorded an impressive victory win in the 2008 Coca-Cola ‘Clean & Green’ Half-Marathon in Adama, winning the race in a time of 1:01:27. Mergia finished almost one and half minutes clear of his younger brother Sintayehu (1:02:55) with Challa Dechassa one second behind in 3rd place...