Tsegaye Kebede
Name: Tsegaye Kebede
Events: road race
Place of Birth: Girar
Date of Birth: 15 January 1987
Residence: Addis Abeba
Height: 1.58
Weight: 50
Marital Status:
Personal bests: - 10K: 28.10
  - 1/2 marathon: 59.35
  - marathon: 2:05:18
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Tsegaye Kebede Wordofa (born 15 January 1987) is an Ethiopianathlete, who specializes in long-distance running, including marathons. He quickly rose to become a prominent distance runner after his international debut at the Amsterdam Marathon in 2007. In his second year of professional running, he won the Paris Marathon, the Fukuoka Marathon and won the marathon bronze medal at the 2008 Beijing Olympics.

In the 2009 season he established himself as one of Ethiopia's top athletes: he came second in the London Marathon and at his first World Championships in Athletics he took the bronze medal in the marathon. He retained his Fukuoka Marathon title at the end of 2009, running the fastest ever marathon race in Japan. He won the 2010 London Marathon – his first major marathon. He is ranked among the top ten fastest marathon runners of all time, and is the second fastest Ethiopian after Haile Gebrselassie

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