Yared Shegumo

Yared Neda Shegumo (born January 10, 1983, in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia) is a Polish distance runner, who specializes in the Marathon.

Yared first came to Poland in 1999 to represent his native Ethiopia at the 1999 World Youth Championships which were held in Bydgoszcz.

[1] Since Ethiopia was at the time in the middle of the war with Eritrea, he decided to defect for fear of being conscripted.

Due to a difficult financial situation, he decided to migrate to England where he worked in a warehouse near Birmingham.

[4] In 2018, he competed in the men's marathon at the 2018 European Athletics Championships held in Berlin, Germany.