Kutre Dulecha

Kutre Dulecha ( born August 22, 1978 in the province of Sidamo ) is an Ethiopian athlete who was successful especially in the middle -distance running. She also appeared internationally in appearance and in cross-country running and as marathon runner.

At the age of sixteen, she participated for the first time at World Athletics Championships. 1995 in Gothenburg, she joined in the 800 - meter race and at the 1500 -meter run, but missed on both routes the final. A short time later she won at the Pan-African Games in Harare over 1500 m and won the bronze medal over 800 m. She was Junior World Champion in the 1500 meter run in 1996. She also competed in the Olympic Games in Atlanta. In the 1500 -meter run, she reached the semi-finals in the 800 - meter race she was disqualified after the first round.

In 1997, she took both the World Indoor Championships in Paris as well as at the World Championships in Athens outdoors each ninth above 1,500 meters. They also introduced this season with a time of 4:05,67 min in Hengelo on a junior world record in the 1500 meter race. The following year she won the bronze medal in the short track at the World Cross Country Championships in Marrakech.

At the World Athletics Championships in 1999 in Seville, she was in a time of 4:00,96 min third in the 1500 -meter run. About the same distance she defended shortly afterwards at the Pan-African Games in Johannesburg its title.

2000 Dulecha was World Cross Country Champion on the short distance to Vilamoura. In the same year she won at the Sydney Olympics with a time of 4:05,33 min fourth place in the 1500 meter run and missed a medal by only six hundredths of a second. At the end it was the IAAF Grand Prix Final in Doha as two years earlier in Moscow Second above 1,500 meters.

After they had occupied ninth place in Birmingham at the IAAF World Indoor Championships in 2003 and was eliminated in the same year at the World Athletics Championships in Paris in the semifinals, she scored at the IAAF World Indoor Championships in Budapest in 2004 their greatest success in the 1500 meter race. In a time of 4:06,40 min she won the world title.

After Halbfinalaus over 1500 m at the 2004 Olympics in Athens, she joined the road race. In 2005 she was the half-marathon race of the City - Pier - City Loop second in 1:10:54 h A month later, she gave her debut at the Hamburg Marathon on the full distance, finishing in 2:32:29 h in fifth place. In the autumn of the same year she won the Amsterdam Marathon in a personal best of 2:30:06 h, 2006, when she Frankfurt Marathon, after she had done for a long time, in a time 2:33:54 h Sixth.

Kutre Dulecha has a competition weight of 48 kg at a height of 1.68 m.

Bests

  • 800 m: 1:59,37 min, July 10, 1999 Arnhem
  • 1500 m: 3:58,43 min, August 8, 1998, Monaco
  • Half Marathon: 1:10:54 h, March 19, 2005 The Hague
  • Marathon: 2:30:06 h 16 October, 2005, Amsterdam
Cross country running 1999 World Championships in Athletics Sidamo Province 1995 World Championships in Athletics 1997 IAAF World Indoor Championships 1997 World Championships in Athletics Hamburg-Marathon Amsterdam-Marathon Frankfurt-Marathon
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