Alemu Bekele
Bekele at the 2016 Olympics
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| Born | 23 March 1990 (age 27) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Education | Addis Ababa University | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 162 cm (5 ft 4 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 59 kg (130 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Athletics | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Event(s) | Steeplechase, 10,000 m, half marathon, marathon | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Personal best(s) | 1500 m – 3:40.83 (2011) 5000 m – 13:18.00 (2013) 10,000 m – 27:56.20 (2012) HM – 1:01:38 (2016) Marathon – 2:13:28 (2016) |
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Alemu Bekele Gebre (born 23 March 1990) is an Ethiopian long-distance runner who competes internationally for Bahrain. He specialises in the 5000 metres and 10,000 metres.
He transferred to Bahrain as a junior (under-19) athlete and won the 5000 m bronze medal at the 2011 Asian Athletics Championships. He took the 3000 metres bronze at the 2012 Asian Indoor Athletics Championships before raising to the top of the region by winning the 10,000 m title and 5000 m silver at the 2013 Asian Athletics Championships.
He also races in cross country competitions: he was the 2012 Asian champion, 2013 World Military champion and is a three-time participant of the IAAF World Cross Country Championships.
Alemu Bekele Gebre was born and raised in Lemu, a small rural farming community near Bekoji in Ethiopia's Arsi Zone. He grew up in a family of nine children and spent his early years assisting his parents with their cereal crops. He moved to stay with his grandparents when he started school but he became distracted from his studies as his interest in running grew. His father urged him to focus on his schoolwork and Alemu did so, going on to high school in Bekoji in 2005. The coach at the school, Sentayehu Eshetu, had taught world champions Kenenisa Bekele and Tirunesh Dibaba previously and Alemu again threw himself into running practice. His father refused to support him further and forced him to leave the family home.
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