Women’s 5k road race to take place in Addis
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- 06 Apr 2023
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The 20th edition of the Great Ethiopian Run (GER) will be held in Addis Ababa on March 26, 2023. Around 15,000 people are anticipated to attend the event to compete, including over 200 world-class athletes.
The race is officially sponsored by Safaricom and dubbed “Safaricom’s First Women’s 5K Race.”
One of GER’s annual races, the 5km race, has been one of the best pre-competition trials for several elite athletes, with a total of 50,000 birr will be awarded to the victor.
Tsege Geberselama, an Ethiopian long-distance runner, is among the notable athletes competing this year. A month after winning silver at the 2023 World Cross Country Championship in Bathurst, Australia, Tsege hopes to repeat as champion.
She has managed to improve her track time to 14:43.90 after winning the race three years ago in the course record time of 15:19.50. In October of last year, she ran the Valencia Half Marathon, finishing second in 1:05:46.
Tolera Dinka, Tsege’s coach, says that she has been training not only to win the race but also to break the course record.
The competition on Sunday is expected to be more difficult than any previous competition if the roster of athletes competing is any indication.
Medina Issa, silver medalist in the Australian junior cross-country race, and world junior 5000m champion, will be competing alongside Tsege. This will be her first time participating in such a competition.
Medina’s best time for the distance was 14:53, which she ran in a race last year. She won the women’s race and was followed by three-time winner Sembre Teferi. Read More…
