Tsigie Gebreselama

Tsigie Gebreselama
Personal information
Nationality	Ethiopian
Born	September 30, 2000 (age 24); Saesi Tsaedaemba, Tigray Region, Ethiopia
Sport
Country	Ethiopia
Sport	Athletics
Event	Long-distance running
Achievements and titles
Personal bests	3000m: 8:24.40 (Lausanne, 2024); 5000m: 14:18.76 (Eugene, 2024); 10,000m: 29:48.34 (San Juan Capistrano, 2024); Road 10 Kilometres: 30:29 (Paderborn, 2023); Half marathon: 1:05.14 (Ras Al Khaimah, 2024);
Medal record
Women's athletics
Representing Ethiopia
World Junior Championships
World Cross Country Championships

Tsigie Gebreselama (born 30 September 2000) is an Ethiopian long-distance runner. She won the silver medal in the women's race at the 2023 World Cross Country Championships and bronze for the junior women's race at the 2019 World Cross Country Championships. In 2019, she also won the 15 km road race at the Istanbul Marathon.^[1]

Career

At the 2018 World Under-20 Championships, 17-year-old Tsigie Gebreselama won the bronze medal in the women's 3000 metres event.

In 2019, she won the bronze medal in the junior women's race at the World Cross Country Championships with a time of 20:50.^[2]^[3] In the same year, she also won the 15 km Montferland Run held in 's-Heerenberg, Netherlands, setting a new course record of 47:29.^[4]

The 20-year-old competed in the women's 10,000 metres event at the postponed 2020 Tokyo Olympics in 2021.^[5]

She won the silver medal for the women's race at the 2023 World Cross Country Championships held in Bathurst, Australia.^[6]

In 2024, She won the 5000 metres at the Prefontaine Classic in Eugene clocking a time of 14:18.76 moving her up to 14th on the all time top list^[7] She competed in the women's 10,000 metres event at the 2024 Summer Olympics held in Paris, France.

Representing Ethiopia
Year	Competition	Venue	Position	Event	Result
2018	World U20 Championships	Tampere, Finland	3rd	3000 m	8:59.20
2019	World Cross Country Championships	Aarhus, Denmark	3rd	Junior race	20:50
2019	World Cross Country Championships	Aarhus, Denmark	1st	Junior team	17 pts
2021	Olympic Games	Tokyo, Japan		10,000 m	DNF
2023	World Cross Country Championships	Bathurst, Australia	2nd	Senior race	33:56
2023	World Cross Country Championships	Bathurst, Australia	2nd	Team	25 pts
Road races
2018	Great Ethiopian Run	Addis Ababa, Ethiopia	3rd	10 km	33:53
2019	Istanbul Marathon	Istanbul, Turkey	1st	15 km	49:42
	Great Ethiopian Run	Addis Ababa, Ethiopia	2nd	10 km	32:21
	Montferland Run	's-Heerenberg, Netherlands	1st	15 km	47:29
2020	Women's First 5 km	Addis Ababa, Ethiopia	1st	5 km	15:20
2021	Great Ethiopian Run	Addis Ababa, Ethiopia	1st	10 km	32:33
2022	Corrida de Langueux	Langueux, France	2nd	10 km	30:53
	Copenhagen Half Marathon	Copenhagen, Denmark	2nd	Half marathon	1:06:35
	Valencia Half Marathon	Valencia, Spain	2nd	Half marathon	1:05:46
	Jeddah Half Marathon	Jeddah, Saudi Arabia	4th	Half marathon	1:08:59

^ "Kenyan, Ethiopian athletes win 41st Istanbul Marathon". Anadolu Agency. 3 November 2019. Retrieved 28 December 2019.
^ "U20 Race Result". World Athletics. Retrieved 28 December 2019.
^ "Junior women's race" (PDF). 2019 IAAF World Cross Country Championships. Archived (PDF) from the original on 19 October 2020. Retrieved 19 October 2020.
^ "Twee parcoursrecords sneuvelen bij sterk bezette Montferland Run". NOS (in Dutch). 1 December 2019. Retrieved 28 December 2019.
^ "Athletics - GEBRESELAMA Tsigie". Tokyo 2020 Olympics. Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Archived from the original on 2021-08-09. Retrieved 2021-08-09.
^ "In Bathurst, the "World's Greatest Footrace" Lived Up to Its Name". LetsRun.com. February 18, 2023. Retrieved February 19, 2023.
^ Grief, Andrew (May 25, 2024). "Chebet breaks world 10,000m record, Kerr pips Ingebrigtsen in mile in Eugene". World Athletics. Retrieved May 29, 2024.

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