Amane Gobena
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| Women's athletics | ||
Representing  Ethiopia
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| IAAF World Cross Country Championships | ||
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2002 Dublin | Team short race |
Amane Gobena Gemeda (born 11 September 1982) is an Ethiopian long-distance runner who competes primarily in road running events. She has a marathon best of 2:23:50 hours.
She began her international career in cross country running and was part of the Ethiopian team which won the gold medal in the short race at the 2002 IAAF World Cross Country Championships. After modest performances on the track, she found success by switching to road races in 2007.
The 2009 season saw marked improvement as she won the Cooper River Bridge Run and Monument Avenue 10K races. She then went on to take her first marathon win at the Toronto Waterfront Marathon, breaking the course record in only her third outing over the distance. She enjoyed success in East Asia at the start of 2010, winning both the Osaka Ladies Marathon and Seoul International Marathon. Amane also gained her first major wins over other distances that year by taking first place at the Göteborgsvarvet half marathon and winning her first national title in the 10,000 metres.
Her first top level performances came in cross country and she finished eighth in the short race at the 2002 IAAF World Cross Country Championships in Dublin, a placing which helped the women's Ethiopian team (including Werknesh Kidane, Abebech Negussie and Genet Gebregiorgis) to the gold medal in the team competition. She competed in track races in Europe in the 2003–2004 and among her performances was a 5000 metres personal best of 15:19.50, set at the Grand Prix Regione Lombardia in 2004 where she finished fourth. That year she also represented her country at the World Cross Country Championships for a second time, although her eleventh-place finish left her out of the top four Ethiopians who took the team gold.
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