Fita Bayisa

Fita Bayisa (* December 15, 1972 in Oromia ) is a retired Ethiopian long-distance runner, who was especially successful in the 5000 -meter run.

Internationally, he appeared for the first time at the World Cross Country Championships in 1990 in Aix -les- Bains in appearance. In the long- distance race in the adult, although he finished only 88th rank, was in the junior race but third parties. He could repeat in Antwerp latter success the following year.

In 1991 he was able to establish for the first time in the world rankings. The IAAF World Championships in Tokyo, he won the 5000m in a time of 13:16,64 min the silver medal behind the Kenyans Yobes Ondieki. A few weeks later Bayisa won over the same distance at the Pan-African Games in Cairo in a time of 13:38,91 min before Ibrahim Kinuthia and Ondoro Osoro from Kenya.

At the World Cross Country Championships in 1992 in Boston Bayisa was third in the long distance races. The greatest success of his career came at the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona. In the 5000 - meter race he won in a time of 13:13,03 min the bronze behind the German Dieter Baumann and Paul Bitok from Kenya. In addition Bayisa was ninth in the 10,000 -meter run. A little later he rounded off his successful season off with a win over 5000 meters at the IAAF World Cup in Havana.

At the World Athletics Championships in Stuttgart in 1993, he started again on the same routes as the previous year at the Olympic Games. About 10,000 m, he moved back into the finals, but did not finish the race there. In the 5000 - meter race, he won a bronze medal. With a time of 13:05,40 min he was beaten only Ismael Kirui from Kenya and his compatriot Haile Gebrselassie. Latter defeated Bayisa in the same year at the African Championships in Durban in the 10,000 -meter run, as he 27:26,90 min in behind the Kenyans William Sigei was second.

In the following years it was no longer possible Bayisa all to build on its previous successes. He finished second in his race while top rankings, but could, apart from the bronze medal in the 3000 -meter run at the African Championships in 1998, winning no medals. At the World Athletics Championships in Gothenburg in 1995, in Paris in 1997 and 1999 in Seville, he finished each about 5000 m places eight, ten and six, at the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta tenth. In between, he made ​​at the IAAF World Indoor Championships in Paris in 1997 a trip to the 3000 -meter distance and there was seventh. A recent moderate success he achieved at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney when he was min in the relatively slow 5000 - meter race fourth in 13:37:03.

Fita Bayisa had a competition weight of 53 kg at a height of 1.73 m. He is married and the father of five children. In July 2009 he was arrested by the Ethiopian police after he allegedly shot his wife in the dispute.

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