Bezunesh Bekele

Bezunesh Bekele (full name Bezunesh Bekele Sertsu, also Bizunesh Bekele; born January 29, 1983 in Addis Ababa ) is an Ethiopian long-distance runner.

Three times she competed at the World Cross Country Championships as a junior ( with the sixth rank in 2002 as the best placement) and five times as adults ( with a ninth place on the short distance in 2006 as the best placement). In the World Half Marathon Championships in 2004 in New Delhi, she was eighth and. During the Track and Africa Championships in 2006 in Bambous fifth in the 10,000 meter race In the road race World Championships 2007 in Udine she put in fourth with 1:08:07 hours at their best time in the half marathon distance and won with the Ethiopian team silver. More success in road races are victories at Montferland Run in 2004 and 2005, the Rotterdam Half Marathon in 2005 and at the Portugal Half Marathon and the Zevenheuvelenloop 2007.

In 2008 she switched to the marathon distance. Right away she ran 2:23:09 h and thus was second of the Dubai Marathon 2008; the Chicago Marathon she came to seventh place. The following year, handed her a time of 2:24:02 hours to win the Dubai marathon. At the Boston Marathon, she finished fourth, and at the World Athletics Championships in Berlin, she ran a 16th place.

2010, she finished fourth in Dubai and the London Marathon and second in the Berlin Marathon.