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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
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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.