Mamitu Daska
 Mamitu Daska at the 2013 Boston Marathon |
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Representing  Ethiopia
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2015 Brazzaville | Half marathon |
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2011 Maputo | Half marathon |
Mamitu Daska Molisa (born 16 October 1983), also known as Mamitu Deska, is an Ethiopian long-distance runner who specialises in road running events, including the marathon. She is a two-time team silver medallist at the IAAF World Cross Country Championships. She has won the Dubai Marathon and Houston Marathon and has a personal best of 2:21:59 hours for the distance.
Mamitu Daska was born in Liteshoa in Ethiopia's Oromia Region. She gained representation with Elite Sports Management International in 2006 and began competing in road races in Spain that year. She won her first races the following year, taking the Route du Vin Half Marathon title and the Sedan-Charleville 24.3 km race in France. Among her other outings that year, she was runner-up at the 20 kilomètres de Maroilles, third at the Parkersburg Half Marathon and fourth places at the 20 Kilomètres de Paris and Falmouth Road Race.
Running for Oromia Police, she was sixth at the Jan Meda Cross Country in February 2008 – a finish which gained her selection for the 2009 IAAF World Cross Country Championships. She finished twelfth at the world event held in Amman and she was part of the silver medal-winning Ethiopian women's team. She travelled to the United States in May and won the Bolder Boulder 10K and was second at the Freihofer's Run for Women. That August she won the 7-mile Falmouth race and set a personal best at the New York City Half Marathon, coming in second place behind Paula Radcliffe in a time of 1:11:04 hours. Mamitu made her debut over the marathon distance in September and performed well, recording a time of 2:26:38 hours to take third place at the high-profile Berlin Marathon. More improvements came at the Delhi Half Marathon, where she finished the race in 68:07 minutes for fourth place. She ended the year with a win at the Obudu Ranch International Mountain Race in Nigeria.
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