Tirunesh DIBABA

Tirunesh Dibaba - Ethiopia - Victories at the 2006 GP Final & World Cup (result)

Photo/Foto: George Herringshaw

Date: 10 September 2006

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    • DATE OF BIRTH
      Saturday, 01 June 1985
    • PLACE OF BIRTH
      Bekoji, Arsi, Ethiopia.
  • INTERNATIONAL
  • Ethiopia
    • Event(s)
      5000m, 10,000m.
    • Championship Performances
      Olympics: 2016 bronze 10,000m, 2012 Gold 10,000m, 2008  Gold 5,000m & 10,000m, 2004 bronze 5,000m.
      Worlds: 2017
      silver 10,000m, 2013 Gold 10,000m, 2007 Gold 10,000m, 2005 Gold 5,000m & 10000m,
      2003 Gold
      5,000m.
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Tirunesh DIBABA - Ethiopia - Victories at the 2006 GP Final & World Cup (result)

Tirunesh is pictured above during the 2006 Grand Prix Final in Stuttgart.

In an incredible finish to the 5000m she pipped her fellow Ethiopian Meseret Defar

by just 1 hundredth of a second. The photo above is during the 3000m and it was

the same two athletes who contested another close finish, Defar turning the tables

on Dibaba by .52 of a second. A week later Tirunesh represented Africa in the

World Cup and enjoyed a comfortable victory in the 3000m.

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Women's 3000m.
2006 Grand Prix Final.

1. Meseret Defar   ETH   8: 34.22
2. Tirunesh Dibaba   ETH   8: 34.74
3. Vivian Cheruiyot   KEN   8: 38.86
4. Ines Chenonge   KEN   8: 39.29
5. Sylvia Chibiwott Kibet   KEN   8: 40.09
6. Gelete Burika Bati   ETH   8: 41.22
7. Joanne Pavey   GBR   8: 41.56
8. Eloise Wellings   AUS   8: 46.17
 
Women's 5000m.
2006 Grand Prix Final.

1. Tirunesh Dibaba   ETH   16: 04.77
2. Meseret Defar   ETH   16: 04.78
3. Isabella Ochichi   KEN   16: 07.39
4. Ejegayehu Dibaba   ETH   16: 07.87
5. Vivian Cheruiyot   KEN   16: 07.95
6. Meselech Melkamu   ETH   16: 08.03
7. Edith Masai   KEN   16: 08.56
8. Mestawet Tufa   ETH   16: 09.29
 
Women's 3000m.
2006 World Cup.

1. Tirunesh Dibaba   AFR   8: 33.78
2. Lidia Chojecka   POL   8: 39.69
3. Kara Goucher   USA   8: 41.42
4. Eloise Wellings   OCE   8: 41.78
5. Kayoko Fukushi   ASI   8: 44.58
6. Krisztina Papp   EUR   8: 51.15
7. Yuliya Chizhenko   RUS   8: 59.67
8. Maria Protopappa   GRE   9: 00.15