Derartu Tulu (born: March 21, 1972) in Bokoji, Arsi, Ethiopia is a long distance track, road and marathon athlete. March 21 is the 80th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (81st in leap years). ... 1972 (MCMLXXII) was a leap year that started on a Saturday. ... Arsi is also an extinct Tocharian language Arsi (or Arusi) is one of the 12 zones in Oromia region, Ethiopia. ... Long-distance track event races require runners to balance their energy. ... Road running or road racing is the sport of running on a measured course over an established road (as opposed to track and cross country running). ... Modern day marathon runners 1896 Olympic marathon The word marathon refers to a long-distance road running event of 42. ... An athlete is a person who has above average physical skills (strength, agility, and endurance) and is thus suitable for physical activities, in particular, contests. ...

She was born in the same village as Kenenisa Bekele, the male running sensation. Kenenisa Bekele (ቀነኒሳ በቀለ) (born June 13, 1982 in Bekoji/Arsi) is an Ethiopian distance runner who took gold in the 10,000 m at the 2003 World Championships in Athletics and bronze at the 5,000 m. ...

In 2004, she declined to enter the New York Marathon, where she would have been likely to face marathon World Record holder Paula Radcliffe, whom she has had a great rivalry with over the years, and focused instead on the Olympic Games, where won a bronze medal. 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The New York City Marathon is an annual marathon foot-race run through the five boroughs of New York City. ... A world record is the best performance in a certain discipline, usually a sports event. ... Paula Radcliffe Paula Jane Radcliffe (born 17 December 1973) is a British long-distance runner. ... The Olympic Games, or Olympics, is an international multi-sport event taking place every four years and comprising summer and winter games. ...

Derartu Tulu is the first Ethiopian woman to win a medal in the Olympic Games. She is also the first women from Sub Saharan africa to win an Olympic gold medal. Her 1992 Olympic gold medal launched her career. She sat out 1993 and 1994 with a knee injury and returned to competition in the 1995 World Cross Country Championships where she won gold having arrived at the race only an hour before the start. She was stuck in Athens airport without sleep for 24 hours. The same year she lost out to Fernanda Ribeiro and won silver at the World Championships 10,000. 1996 was a difficult year. At the World Cross Country Championships she lost her shoe in the race and had to fight back to get 4th place. She also finished 4th at the Olympic Games where she was nursing a injury. In '97 she won the world cross country title for a third time but did not factor in the 10,000 meter World Championships. 1998 and 1999 she gave birth, but came back in 2000 in the best shape of her life. She won the 10,000 meter Olympic gold for the second time (the only women to have done this in the short history of the event). She had also won the World Cross country title for the third time that year. In 2001 she finally won her world 10,000 track title in Edmonton. This was her third world and Olympic gold medal. She has a total of 6 world and Olympic gold medals. Maria Fernanda Moreira Ribeiro (born June 23rd, 1969), a long-distance runner, born in Penafiel, Portugal. ... More than one place has the name Edmonton. ...

Her transition to the marathon has been rewarded with PR's of 2:23 and to victories in London 2002 and at the competitive Tokyo Marathon. At the age of 33 she finished 4th at the 2004 World Championships setting her 2:23 PR. Marathon has multiple meanings Marathon (sport), an athletic event Marathon, Greece (and the Battle of Marathon), after which the sport was named Other places with the name in the United States Marathon (village), New York Marathon (town), New York Marathon, Texas Marathon, Florida Marathon, Ontario in Canada Until 1990, the... The Tokyo Marathon held in Tokyo, Japan, is one of the prominent marathon races of the year. ...

Sixteen years into her running career Derartu Tulu is still running competitively, while some of her rivals are retiring. She is an icon of the Olympic movement and many will recall her victory lap with White South African Elana Meyer, symbolically celebrating an African victory and the end of apartheid on the track. She will also be remembered for her speed. Her 60.3 second last lap at the end of the 10,000 meters at the Sydney Olympics was a sprint of note. A devastating display of speed on top of endurance and a display of her will power. Elana Meyer, long distance runner from South Africa. ... A segregated beach in South Africa, 1982. ...

Achievements

• 1992
  • Summer Olympics - Barcelona, Spain.
    • 10,000 metres gold medal
  • IAAF World Cup - Havana, Cuba.
    • 10,000 m. gold medal
• 1995
  • World Cross Country Championship - Durham, England.
    • Long course gold medal
  • World Championships - Gothenburg, Sweden.
    • 10,000 m. silver medal
• 1997
  • World Cross Country Championship - Turin, Italy.
    • Long course gold medal
• 2000
  • Summer Olympics - Sydney, Australia.
    • 10,000 m. gold medal
  • World Cross Country Championship - Vilamoura, Portugal.
    • Long course gold medal
• 2001
  • World Championships - Edmonton, Canada.
    • 10,000 m. gold medal
  • London Marathon winner
• 2004
  • Summer Olympics - Athens, Greece
    • 10,000 m. bronze medal

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External link

• Derartu Tulu at Athens 2004 Participants