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Abeba Aregawi
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Swedish track and field athlete
Key facts
- Nationality
- Ethiopian , Swedish (since June 2012)
- Born
- ( 1990-07-05 ) 5 July 1990 (age 35) , Adigrat , Ethiopia
- Sport
- Athletics
- Event s
- 800 metres , 1500 metres
- Club
- none
- Retired
- 2018 (resumed running in 2024)
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- Sweden
- Place of birth
- Adigrat
- Spouse
- Yemane Tsegay
- Occupation
- athletics competitor
- Languages spoken
- Swedish
- Sport
- athletics
- Country for sport
- Ethiopia
- Mass
- 52
- Official website
- abebaaregawi.se
- Image
- Abeba Aregawi Moscow 2013.jpg
- Height
- 170
- Residence
- Addis Ababa
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- date of birth
- 1990-07-05
- Commons category
- Abeba Aregawi
- competition won
- 2014 European Team Championships
- personal best
- 263.07
Sources (3)
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Encyclopedic overview
Abeba Aregawi Gebretsadik (Amharic: አበባ አረጋዊ; born 5 July 1990) is an Ethiopian-born Swedish middle-distance runner who specialised in the 1,500 metres. She won the silver medal in the 1,500 m at the 2012 Summer Olympics and a gold medal at the World Championships in 2013. She represented Ethiopia internationally until December 2012, and afterwards represented Sweden.
Biography
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Abeba Aregawi” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.