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Marta Alemayo
Ethiopian track and field athlete (born 2008) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Marta Alemayo (born 8 April 2008) is an Ethiopian long-distance runner. In 2024, she became the world under-20 cross country champion. In January 2025, she set a new U18 world best time for the 3000m indoors. In May 2025, she also set a new U18 world best time for the 3000m outdoors.[1]
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Alemayo finished fourth in the Ethiopian world championship cross country trials u20 race in 2024.[2] On 30 March 2024, she won the U20 individual event, as well as gold in the team U20 race, at the 2024 World Athletics Cross Country Championships in Serbia.[3][4] Winning at 15 years and 357 days old, Alemayo became the youngest women's under-20 world cross country champion of the 21st century, and the youngest since the Kenyan Rose Kosgei in 1997 who was 15 years and 213 days.[5][2]
On 20 April 2024, she ran 15:14.54 to win the 5000 metres at the Kip Keino Classic in Nairobi.[6] In August 2024, she won the bronze medal over 3000 metres at the 2024 World Athletics U20 Championships in Lima, Peru.[7]
She ran 8:39.80 for the 3000m in Astana on the 2025 World Athletics Indoor Tour to set a new world under-18 best, on 25 January 2025 beating the previous mark of 8:46.01 set by Gotytom Gebreslase in 2012.[8] On 25 May 2025, she ran 8:32.20 for the 3000m in Rabat on the 2025 Diamond League to set a new world under-18 best, beating the previous mark of 8:36.45 set by Ma Ningning in 1993.[9] She ran a personal best 8:32.20 in the 3000 metres at the 2025 Meeting International Mohammed VI d'Athlétisme de Rabat, part of the 2025 Diamond League, in May 2025.[10]
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