Download haile gebrselassie1/22/2024 Three of the four individual titles contested here yesterday were won by Ethiopians, 18-year-old Abshero taking the Junior Men’s, 18-year-old Genzebe Dibaba the Junior Women’s and 24-year-old Gebre Gebremariam the Senior Men’s.Īfter following his individual silver medal at the 2008 World Cross, in Edinburgh, with a clinical victory here – he remained buried in the lead group before pouncing for the prize up the final hill – Abshero was soon thinking ahead. A new generation of Ethiopian athletics ‘royalty’ is on its way. No Haile Gebrselassie – he has long since given up Cross Country – no 2008 World Cross champions Kenenisa Bekele or Tirunesh Dibaba.īut wait. There as a guest of royalty – the invitations had come from His Royal Highness Prince Feisal Al Hussein (LOC Patron) – Ethiopia’s athletics ‘royalty’ was missing. “I began running because my brother is a runner and I followed his example,” Ayele reflected here last night, sitting patiently on the Ethiopian table, waiting for his dinner, at the Final Banquet for the 37th IAAF World Cross Country Championships. Tessema Abshero was born four years before Ayele and was among Ethiopia’s best young Cross Country runners before developing into a 2:08 marathoner. Young boys tend to look up to their older brothers and Ayele Abshero was no different.
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