Elvan Abeylegesse
Elvan Abeylegesse ( born September 11, 1982 in Addis Ababa ) is a Turkish middle and long distance runner of Ethiopian origin.
Under her birth name Hewan Amharic Abeye it was for Ethiopia at the Ninth junior race of the IAAF World Cross Country Championships 1999 in Belfast. After a sports festival in Istanbul, she was so happy that she decided to stay there with the training conditions in Turkey. In order to obtain Turkish citizenship, she married and changed his name Elvan Can. Its current name she took after her divorce. They will start for the Enka Sports Club in Istanbul and is coached by former Bulgarian triple jumper Ertan Hatipoglu. The Ethiopian Association responded to their behavior with the grant of a training ban in Ethiopia where still Abeylegesses family lives with her seven siblings. The greater their popularity in Turkey. So Abeylegesse declared the honorary president of their association, SARIK Tara, he values their successes higher than third place in the Turkish football team in the World Cup 2002. Again expressed their commitment to their new home by looking for her world record in the 5000m, the Turkish flag in order her shoulders lay. So they went down in history as the first Turkish athletics world record holder.
In 2001 she became European Junior Champion in 3000 - and 5000 -meter run as well as in cross-country running. At the European Athletics Championships in Munich in 2002 they finished seventh in the 5000m in 15:24,41 min. Shortly after, she presented with 8:31,94 min on the current Turkish record over 3000 m. At the World Championships 2003, she then cracked in fifth with 14:53,56 min, the 15 -minute mark.
The following year she broke first with 3:58,28 min, the four -minute mark in the 1500 meter race and then at the Bislett Games in Bergen 14:24,68 min with the 5000 -meter world record of Jiang Bo However, from the year 1997. at the 2004 Olympics in Athens, she was only Twelfth over 5000 m in 15:12,64 min and Eighth about 1500 m in 4:00,67 min.
At the European Championships in Gothenburg in 2006, she won the 5000m in 14:59,29 min the bronze medal. Earlier this year, they had set records in Turkish 10,000 -meter run ( 30:21,67 min) and in the 10 - km road race ( 30:57 min). At the 2007 World Championships in Osaka, she was in the 10,000 meters second.
In 2008 she shared at the premiere of World 10K Bangalore victory with Grace Kwamboka Momanyi. Two silver medals they then won at the Olympic Games in Beijing. In an extremely fast 10,000 m race, she had only her former compatriot Tirunesh Dibaba beaten and remained as such under the 30 -minute mark. With 29:56,34 minutes she broke the European record of Paula Radcliffe and now takes on the Eternal World leaderboard fourth place. The second silver medal she won over the 5000 m.
In 2010 she won the RAK Half Marathon. Your time of 1:07:07 h is the fastest ever half- marathon debut a woman. In the same year she won the gold medal in the 10,000 m and the silver medal in the 5000 m at the European Championships in Barcelona. Since the IAAF the winner Alemitu Bekele but locked later, she was also on this route European champion.
Abeylegesse opted not to participate in the World Athletics Championships 2011 in Daegu, as well as to all other races of the season because of her pregnancy in advance. The daughter of her and her husband came Semeneh Debelie end of July 2011 with the name " Arsema " to the world.
Elvan Abeylegesse is 1.59 m tall and weighs 40 kg.