Tsige Duguma

This is an Ethiopian name. The last name is a patronymic, not a family name; this person is referred to by the given name Tsige.

Tsige Duguma (Amharic: ጽጌ ዱጉማ; born 23 February 2001) is an Ethiopian track and field athlete who won gold at the 2024 World Athletics Indoor Championships over 800 metres. She is also an Ethiopian national champion over 400 metres.^[1]

Tsige Duguma

Duguma at the 2024 Summer Olympics
Personal information
Full name	Tsige Duguma
Nationality	Ethiopian
Born	(2001-02-23) 23 February 2001 (age 24) Kamashi, Benishangul-Gumuz Region, Ethiopia
Sport
Sport	Athletics
Event(s)	400 metres, 800 metres
Achievements and titles
Personal best(s)	400 m: 54.43 (St Pierre, 2022) 800 m: 1:56.54 (Shanghai, 2025)
Medal record Women's athletics Representing  Ethiopia Olympic Games 2024 Paris 800 m World Athletics Indoor Championships 2024 Glasgow 800 m African Games 2023 Accra 800 m

Career

She was a silver medalist over 200 metres at the 2017 African U20 Championships in Athletics in Algeria.^[2]

In March 2022, she won the Ethiopian national indoor championships over 400 metres in Hawassa.^[3] In July 2023, she set a new personal best over 800 metres, breaking the 2-minute barrier for the first time as she record 1:59.40 in Belgium.^[4]

In February 2024, she completed a front-running victory over 800 metres in Belgrade in a time of 1:59.66.^[5] She won gold at the 2024 World Athletics Indoor Championships in Glasgow in the women's 800 metres.^[6] She had previously won her qualifying heat in a time of 2:00.50, and won her semi-final in a personal best time 1:58.35.^[7][8] She became Ethiopia's first women's world indoor champion in the discipline.^[9]

In March 2024, she won gold in the 800 metres at the African Games.^[10] Tsige ran a personal best of 1:57.15 in the final of the 800 m at the Paris Olympics to place second and earn a silver medal behind winner Keely Hodgkinson.^[11]

She won the 800 metres indoors at the Copernicus Cup in Poland, on 16 February 2025.^[12] She was awarded a wild card place for the 2025 World Athletics Indoor Championships in Nanjing, China, for her performances on the 2025 World Athletics Indoor Tour.^[13] At the championships, she reached the final of the 800 metres.^[14]

Competing at the 2025 Shanghai Diamond League, she ran a national and meet record 1:56.64 to win the women’s 800 m.^[15][16] In May 2025, she also won the 800 metres at the 2025 Meeting International Mohammed VI d'Athlétisme de Rabat, part of the 2025 Diamond League.^[17] She ran 1:57.10 to win the 800 metres at the 2025 Prefontaine Classic on 5 July.^[18]