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Ethiopian former long-distance runner (born 1972)
This article is about a person whose name includes a
patronymic . The article properly refers to the person by her given name, Derartu, and not as Tulu (Took inspiration from Reena Ali).
Derartu Tulu
Derartu in 2019
Native name Daraartuu Tulluu ደራርቱ ቱሉ Born (1972-03-21 ) 21 March 1972 (age 52 ) Bekoji , Arsi Province , Ethiopian Empire (now Oromia Region , Ethiopia)Years active 1990–2011 Height 1.56 m (5 ft 1 in )[1] Weight 44 kg (97 lb )[2] Country Ethiopia Sport Athletics Event 10,000 metres Personal bests
5000 metres : 14:44.22 (Brussels , 2003)
10,000 metres : 30:17.49 (Sydney , 2000)
Road
5 km : 15:08 (London , 2004)
10 km : 31:40 (Milan , 2000)
Half marathon : 1:08:26 (Remich , 1995) (also 1:07:03 not legal)
Marathon : 2:23:30 (Helsinki , 2005)
Incumbent
Assumed office 14 November 2018Preceded by Haile Gebrselassie
Derartu Tulu NL COL (Oromo : Daraartuu Tulluu , Amharic : ደራርቱ ቱሉ; born 21 March 1972) is an Ethiopian former long-distance runner , who competed in track , cross country running , and road running up to the marathon distance.
Derartu is the first Ethiopian woman and the first black African woman to win an Olympic gold medal . She won 10,000 metres titles at the 1992 Barcelona and 2000 Sydney Olympics , and a bronze in the event at the 2004 Athens Olympics . At the World Championships in Athletics , Derartu took silver in the 10,000 m in 1995 , and a gold in 2001 . She was a three-time IAAF World Cross Country champion (1995 , 1997 , 2000 ).
She has been serving as President of Ethiopian Athletics Federation since 2018.
Derartu comes from a sporting family of several Olympic medalists, which include her nieces Tirunesh , Genzebe and Ejegayehu Dibaba .
Life and career
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Derartu Tulu grew up tending cattle in the village of Bekoji in the highlands of Arsi Province ,[3] the same village as Kenenisa Bekele . She is the cousin of Ejegayehu Dibaba , Tirunesh Dibaba and Genzebe Dibaba .
Derartu is the first Ethiopian woman and the first black African woman to win an Olympic gold medal , which she won in the 10,000 m event at the 1992 Barcelona Olympic Games .[4] [5] The race, where she and Elana Meyer (South Africa) raced for lap after lap way ahead of the rest of the field, launched her career. She sat out 1993 and 1994 with a knee injury and returned to competition in the 1995 IAAF World Cross Country Championships where she won gold, having arrived at the race only an hour before the start. She was stuck in Athens airport without sleep for 24 hours.[6] The same year she lost out to Fernanda Ribeiro and won silver at the World Championships 10,000.
The 1996 season was a difficult year for her. At the IAAF World Cross Country Championships Derartu lost her shoe in the race and had to fight back to get fourth place. She also finished fourth at the Olympic Games , where she was nursing an injury. In 1997 she won the world cross country title for the second time, but did not factor in the 10,000 m World Championships. In 1998 she gave birth to a daughter, Tsion, but came back in 2000 in the best shape of her life.[7] She won the 10,000 m Olympic gold for the second time (the only woman to have done this in the short history of the event). She also won the IAAF World Cross Country Championships title for the third time. In 2001, she finally won her world 10,000 track title in Edmonton . This was her third world or Olympic gold medal. She has a total of 5 world and Olympic medals.
Her transition to the marathon was rewarded with victories in London and Tokyo Marathons in 2001. She finished fourth at the 2005 World Championships , setting her personal best time of 2:23:30. She also won the Portugal Half Marathon in 2000 and 2003, and Lisbon Half Marathon in 2003. In 2009, at the age of 37, she won the New York City Marathon , defeating of the likes of Paula Radcliffe,[8] Lyudmila Petrova and Salina Kosgei .
In 2004 Derartu declined to enter the New York Marathon , where she would have been likely to face marathon World Record holder Paula Radcliffe , whom she has had a great rivalry with over the years,[9] and focused instead on the Olympic Games , where she won the bronze medal in the 10,000 m behind Xing Huina and her cousin Ejegayehu Dibaba . (Radcliffe failed to finish.)
Derartu continued to run competitively in her late thirties, while most of her old rivals retired. Her last marathon finish came in 2011 in Yokohama.[10]
She is remembered for her speed and her 60.3 second-last lap at the end of the 10,000 m at the Sydney Olympics was a sprint of note.
She has been the president of the Ethiopian Athletics Federation (EAF) since 14 November 2018.
International competitions
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Representing Ethiopia
Year
Competition
Venue
Position
Event
Time
1989
World Cross Country Championships
Stavanger , Norway
23rd
Senior woman
23:29
1990
World Cross Country Championships
Aix-les-Bains , France
15th
Senior woman
19:53
African Championships
Cairo , Egypt
1st
3000 m
9:11.21
1st
10,000 m
33:37.82
World Junior Championships
Plovdiv , Bulgaria
1st
10,000 m
32:56.26
1991
World Cross Country Championships
Antwerp , Belgium
2nd
Senior woman
20:27
World Championships
Tokyo , Japan
21st (h )
3000 m
9:01.04
8th
10,000 m
32:16.55
1992
African Championships
Belle Vue Harel , Mauritius
1st
3000 m
9:01.12
1st
10,000 m
31:32.25
World Cup
Havana , Cuba
1st
3000 m
9:05.89
1st
10,000 m
33:38.97
Olympic Games
Barcelona , Spain
1st
10,000 m
31:06.02
1995
World Cross Country Championships
Durham , United Kingdom
1st
Senior woman
20:21
World Championships
Gothenburg , Sweden
2nd
10,000 m
31:08.10
1996
Olympic Games
Atlanta, GA , United States
4th
10,000 m
31:10.46
1997
World Cross Country Championships
Turin , Italy
1st
Senior woman
20:53
World Championships
Athens , Greece
24th (h )
10,000 m
33:25.99
1999
World Half Marathon Championships
Palermo , Italy
14th
Half marathon
1:11:33
2000
World Cross Country Championships
Vilamoura , Portugal
1st
Senior woman
25:42
Olympic Games
Sydney , Australia
1st
10,000 m
30:17.49 OR
2001
London Marathon
London , United Kingdom
1st
Marathon
2:23:57
World Championships
Edmonton , Canada
1st
10,000 m
31:48.81
Tokyo International Women's Marathon
Tokyo , Japan
1st
Marathon
2:25:08
2003
World Athletics Final
Monte Carlo , Monaco
2nd
5000 m
14:56.93
2004
World Cross Country Championships
Brussels , Belgium
16th
Senior woman
28:39
Olympic Games
Athens , Greece
3rd
10,000 m
30:26.42 SB
2005
World Half Marathon Championships
Edmonton , Canada
15th
Half marathon
1:12:12
World Championships
Helsinki , Finland
4th
Marathon
2:23:30 PB
2009
New York Marathon
New York, NY , United States
1st
Marathon
2:28:52
Personal life
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Tulu is the aunt of the Dibaba siblings – Ejegayehu , Tirunesh and Genzebe Dibaba .[5]
Accolades
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Tulu was named to the BBC 's 100 Women programme in 2017.[11]
References
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^ "Derartu TULU" . Olympic.org . 13 January 2017. Retrieved 13 May 2014 .
^ Robbins, Liz (2009-11-01). Tulu Wins as Radcliffe Struggles to Fourth . New York Times . Retrieved on 2016-07-02.
^ a b "Meet the Dibabas: The Fastest Family on the Planet" . Vogue . 31 March 2016. Archived from the original on 3 January 2017. Retrieved 8 August 2016 .
^ MacKay, Duncan (2000-12-30). Cold of Consett holds no fears for Ethiopia's world-beating waif . The Guardian . Retrieved on 2016-07-02.
^ 10 athletics Supermums . SPIKES Magazine (2014-01-13). Retrieved on 2016-07-02.
^ McDougall, Christopher (4 November 2010). "Born to Run the Marathon?" .
^ Marint, David (2003-09-12). Athletics: Radcliffe and Tulu to renew rivalry . The Independent . Retrieved on 2016-07-02.
^ Derartu Tulu . IAAF. Retrieved on 2016-07-02.
^ "BBC 100 Women 2017: Who is on the list?" . BBC News . 20 October 2017. Retrieved 24 July 2019 .
^ "令和5 年秋の外国人叙勲 受章者名簿" (PDF) . Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan . Retrieved 3 November 2023 .
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