Genzebe Dibaba
Dibaba after her victory at the World Indoor Championships in 2012
Genzebe Dibaba ( born February 8, 1991 Bekoji ) is an Ethiopian middle and long distance runner.
The younger sister of Ejegayehu and Tirunesh Dibaba won the 2008 and 2009 in the junior women race in the IAAF World Cross Country Championships gold at the 2008 IAAF World Junior Championships in Bydgoszcz silver in the 5000 -meter run.
At the World Athletics Championships in Berlin in 2009, she was, in the absence of her sisters, who had been dominated on this route, Eighth over 5000 meters.
At the International Hall athletics meeting on February 12, 2012 in Karlsruhe, she ran about 1,500 meters 4:00,13 min. This was the fifth best until then been spilled into the hall time. A month later, she won the World Indoor Championships 2012 in Istanbul the title over 1500 meters.
On February 1, 2014, it surpassed in Karlsruhe 1500 meters with 3:55,17 min the previous world indoor record by over three seconds. Five days later, it broke above 3000 meters another world indoor record. In Stockholm she was with 8:16,60 min over seven seconds faster than the previous world record holder Meseret Defar. A world record on the 2 -mile distance, which is not an official IAAF discipline, left her with 9:00,48 min on 15 February follow. At the World Indoor Championships in Sopot, she won her second gold medal to Istanbul in 2012.