Atelaw Yeshetela Bekele (born 4 December 1987) is an Ethiopian-born long-distance runner who competes internationally for Belgium.

[2] He had his first track running season in 2009, setting a 10,000 meters personal best at the Belgian Championships with a time of 29:47.60 minutes for second place.

[5] A significant personal best of 13:43.20 minutes over 5000 meters in Nijmegen in May 2011 marked the beginning of an improvement in Atelaw's running.

[9] At the 2011 European Cross Country Championships he seized the lead after 2 km by increasing the pace and was never challenged thereafter, taking the gold medal five seconds ahead of runner-up Ayad Lamdassem.

[10] He was the top European behind Kenya's Isiah Koech at the Lotto Cross Cup Brussels meet later that month.