Genzebe Dibaba

Genzebe Dibaba Keneni (Oromo: Ganzabee Dibaabaa Qananii; Amharic: ገንዘቤ ዲባባ ቀነኒ; born 8 February 1991) is an Ethiopian middle- and long-distance runner.

[3] Genzebe comes from a sporting family of several Olympic medalists, which includes her sisters Tirunesh and Ejegayehu, and her cousin, Derartu Tulu.

Genzebe Dibaba is a member of the Oromo ethnic group from the high altitude Arsi Zone of the Oromia Region and comes from an athletic family.

Another older sister, Ejegayehu, won the silver medal in the 10,000 metres at the 2004 Summer Olympics, and her brother Dejene is also an athlete.

Her cousin is Derartu Tulu, the 1992 and 2000 Olympic champion in 10,000 m.[4] Genzebe won the junior women's title at both the 2008[5] and 2009 IAAF World Cross Country Championships[6] and finished fifth in the same event in 2007.

She also competed in IAAF Golden League meetings, including the Reebok Grand Prix and the Oslo Bislett Games.

[9] Despite her wins on the senior circuit, she failed to complete a hat-trick of junior race titles at the 2010 IAAF World Cross Country Championships.

She performed far below expectations, ending up in eleventh and barely making it into the silver medal winning Ethiopian team.

[11] In November, she took a second consecutive victory at the Cross de Atapuerca, taking a prominent scalp in Emily Chebet (the reigning senior champion).

Genzebe improved her 5000 m best to 14:37.56 minutes at the Bislett Games and went on to place eighth in the event at the 2011 World Championships in Athletics.

[15] Turning to the outdoor track, Genzebe ran an Ethiopian record time of 3:57.77 minutes at the Shanghai Golden Grand Prix.

In February in XL-Galan, Stockholm, she ran for Adidas, and in March in Carlsbad (CA, USA), she had her first official competition in Nike dress in the 5k-race, where she missed the world record by a small margin.

Saletti was a meeting director at Stockholm XL-Galan where she on 19 February 2015 repeated the achievement from the year before by setting a world record, now at the 5000 metres with 14:18.86.

Six of the eight fastest times ahead of her occurred in two races at the 1993 Chinese National Games, where much of the running community believes the communist government was sponsoring a doping scheme in the days before serious drug testing was required.

[28] In April, she pulled out of the Dubai Athletics President's Cup 10,000 m Olympic qualifier race due to an injury in her left foot.

[39] In her first race of any kind since August 2019, Genzebe won the delayed Valencia Half Marathon in December 2020 with a time of 65:18.

Genzebe's first senior world title (1500 m) at the 2012 World Indoor Championships
Genzebe en route her 3000m gold at the 2014 World Indoor Championships in Sopot
Genzebe at the Bislett Games in Oslo in 2015
Genzebe (center) with Faith Kipyegon (L) and Sifan Hassan (R) at the medal ceremony during the 2015 World Championships in Beijing