Shitaye Eshete
Eshete at the 2016 Olympics
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| Born | 21 May 1990 (age 26) | |||||||||
| Height | 164 cm (5 ft 5 in) | |||||||||
| Weight | 51 kg (112 lb) | |||||||||
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| Sport | Athletics | |||||||||
| Event(s) | 5000 m – marathon | |||||||||
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| Personal best(s) | 5000 m – 15:03.13 (2013) 10,000 m – 30:47.25 (2012) marathon – 2:25:36 (2016) |
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Shitaye Eshete Habtegebrel (born 21 May 1990) is an Ethiopian-born long-distance runner who competes internationally for Bahrain.
She first began competing for the oil-rich Gulf state in 2009, making her debut at the Asian Cross Country Championships in Manama. She won the women's junior title while team-mate Tejitu Daba, another former Ethiopian, completed a Bahraini 1–2. Her debut at the global level came shortly afterwards at the 2009 IAAF World Cross Country Championships and she finished 24th in the junior race, one place behind Daba. She was entered into the 5000 metres race at the 2009 Asian Athletics Championships in November and she came sixth.
Shitaye made her senior debut the following year, running at the 2010 IAAF World Cross Country Championships and she was eleventh overall in the rankings, leading the Bahrain women alongside Mimi Belete to ninth place in the team competition. In August she made her first appearance on the IAAF Diamond League, setting a 5000 m best of 15:25.67 minutes at the DN Galan. She was the sole representative for Asia-Pacific in that event at the 2010 IAAF Continental Cup, where she was sixth. The 2010 Asian Games saw her claim her first international medal, as she took third for the bronze medal over 10,000 metres behind Indian duo Preeja Sreedharan and Kavita Raut.
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