Alemayehu Bezabeh
Alemayehu Bezabeh ( born January 1, 1986 in Addis Ababa ) is a Spanish long-distance runner of Ethiopian origin. He is 1.80 m tall, weighs 59 kg and starts for the club Atletico Bikila. His older brother Sisay Bezabeh was also active as a long-distance runner and has the Australian nationality.
Career
Shortly after obtaining Spanish citizenship, he started at the Olympic Games in Beijing in 2008 and finished in 5000 - meter race in eleventh position. In the European Cross Country Championships in Brussels, he finished seventh and won with Spain the team standings. At the end of the season, he finished second in the San Silvestre Vallecana.
At the World Cross Country Championships 2009 in Amman Bezabeh reached the rank 31. He participated in the World Athletics Championships in Berlin in 2009 in part, but different than 5000 m in the first round of. In the same year he celebrated the victory at the European Cross Country Championships in Dublin to date the greatest success of his career. He struck unexpectedly the two favorites Mohammed Farah from the United Kingdom and Serhiy Lebid from Ukraine. Spain was again won the team classification.
At the World Cross Country Championships 2010 in Bydgoszcz Bezabeh occupied the 14th place. In early June, he scored at the Bislett Games in Oslo with a time of 12:57,25 min a Spanish record in the 5000m. Eight weeks later he was at the European Athletics Championships in Barcelona over the same distance in 13:43,23 min seventh.
Doping case
Three days before the European Cross Country Championships in Albufeira Bezabeh by the Guardia Civil was caught while attempting to blood doping in the act. In the concurrent Operación Galgo was his coach Manuel Pascua as well as thirteen other people, among them the sports physician Eufemiano Fuentes, were arrested on suspicion of trafficking in doping substances. The Spanish Athletics Federation RFEA underlined Bezabeh then shortly from the squad for the European Cross Country Championships. End of March 2011 reported Spanish media, the RFEA have acquitted him for lack of evidence. The Spanish High Council for Sport ( Consejo Superior de Deportes, short CSD) appealed against the verdict and called for a four -year ban for the athlete. Finally, the Spanish Sports Disciplinary Committee ( Comité Español de Disciplina Deportiva, short CEDD ) presented as a compromise set a two -year ban.