Berhane Adere

Berhane Adere (born 21 July 1973 in the province of Shewa ) is an Ethiopian long-distance runner. After a career as a track runner, culminating in winning the World Championship title in the 10,000 - meter race at the World Athletics Championships in 2003, she has recently successfully on the marathon course.

Career

After they had 1993 gold in the 10,000 m medal at the IAAF Championships Africa and about 3000 m occupies the fifth place, they launched at the World Athletics Championships in Stuttgart in the 10,000 m, but bowed out of. The same fate overtook them at the 1995 World Championships in Gothenburg over the same distance. At the Olympic Games in Atlanta in 1996, she took the 18th place in the 10,000 m, having previously taken this year with the Ethiopian team gold at the World Championships marathon relay.

At the 1997 World Championships in Athens, she won the 10,000 m in fourth place. The following year she won at the African Championships in Dakar gold in the 5000 -meter run. At the 1999 World Championships she came over 10,000 m on the seventh and at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney on the 12th Place.

The following year, the big breakthrough came with winning the silver medal at the 2001 World Championships in the 10,000 m, finishing third at the World Half Marathon Championships in Bristol in 1:08:17 h and a victory at the Zurich New Year's run. In the following season, it has provided a 3000 m indoor world record ( 8:29,15 min) and took both at the World Half Marathon Championships in Brussels as well as in the 5000 -meter run at the African Championships title.

The following year, she won at the IAAF World Indoor Championships 2003 Gold 3000 m, silver at the World Half Marathon Championships in Vilamoura, presented with 14:29,32 to min her personal best over 5000 m and then won at the World Championships in 2003 with the African record of 30:04,18 min Gold over 10,000 m. In the same year she won the Great Manchester Run and was at the Great North Run in Second 1:07:32 h (this half marathon course is not suitable because of its record gap ).

At the 10,000 - meter race of the 2003 World Championships in Paris / Saint- Denis Adere came between her countrywomen, and the sisters Tirunesh Dibaba Ejegayehu, the silver medal. In 2004, she presented with 14:39,29 min over 5000 m another indoor world record, but then toiled with an injury to his Achilles tendon and was not included in the Ethiopian squad for the 2004 Olympics because of the form of weakness.

At the World Championships in Helsinki in 2005 she had her last major appearance on the track and won a silver medal in the 10,000 m. When winning the Zevenheuvelenloop ( her second after 2000) they set a national record in the 15 - km road race.

In 2006, she ventured out again on the marathon distance after a first attempt at the Rotterdam Marathon in 2001 with a disappointing 15th place and a time of 2:41:50 hours had passed, and stood in fourth place in the London Marathon with 2:21: 52 h to a national record. Another national record followed shortly after, when she won the Great Manchester Run over 10 km in 31:07 min. After Gete Wami had undercut this brand at the Berlin Marathon, is Adere took shortly after winning the Great North Run record by winning the Chicago Marathon in 2:20:42 hours back. The following year, she won the Rotterdam Half Marathon in Chicago again and kept the upper hand, as they intercepted the in a heat race at the last minute leading up to that Adriana Pirtea.

The 2008 season started for them with a victory at the Dubai Marathon in 2:22:42 h In London she has been Seventh and Tenth in Chicago. In a marathon, the Olympic Games in Beijing, they did not reach the target. In 2009, she finished seventh in Dubai and each fifth in London and Chicago.

In 2010 she ran the half marathon competition of the Mardi Gras Marathon with 1:07:52 hours, the fastest time a woman on U.S. soil and won for the second time at the Great North Run.

Four times as often as any other athlete, she won the BOclassic (1997, 2002-2004). More success in road races are victories in the Giro Media Blenio (1998 ), in Marseille - Cassis ( 1999), in the Course de l' Escalade (2002, 2003), the Carlsbad 5000 ( 2003 ) and at the RAK Half Marathon (2007)

Berhane Adere is 1,70 m tall and weighs 48 kg. She is with her fellow runners Lemi Erpassa ( bronze medal winner with the Ethiopian team at the World Cross Country Championships in 1994 and the marathon relay World Cup 1996) married, to look after their son was born in 1994. Since 2000, it is managed by the German manager Volker Wagner, to whose protégé Tegla Loroupe had made ​​contact. Since 2004 she has been a UNICEF ambassador for Ethiopia.

Personal best

• Hall: 8:29,15 min, February 3, 2002, Stuttgart (former World Record )

• Hall: 14:39,29 min, January 31, 2004, Stuttgart (former World Record )