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Ethiopia's Mare Dibaba triumphed in the women's marathon following a sprint finish at the world athletics championships in Beijing....
Xaba finished first in 2hr 22min 22sec to beat Mare Dibaba Hurssa of Ethiopia and Kenyan Pascalia Chepkogei.Quick Facts
Mare Dibaba Biography
Mare Dibaba is one of the most popular and richest Marathon Runner who was born on October 20, 1989 in Shewa, Ethiopia.
Mare Dibaba Hurrsa, a long-distance runner from Ethiopia, was born 20 October 1989. She was the 2015 World Champion in Athletics in Beijing. Dibaba is not related with Tirunesh Dibaba, the track Olympic champion and world records holder.
Mare finished third at the Ras Al Khaimah Half Marathon on February 2011.
She was the favorite pre-race at the Los Angeles Marathon in march, but she was defeated by Amy Hastings (2:30:25) and Bezunesh Deba (2:30:25). She won the Yangzhou Jianzhen International Half Marathon a month later by a narrow margin of 1 minute.
Close shave for Dibaba in marathon Ethiopian Mare Dibaba lived up to her billing as the world's fastest marathon runner by winning the grueling event at the.
In August, she was the Bogota Half-Marathon runner-up. She was not selected to the world championships team in that year but she was selected to represent her country at 2011 All-Africa Games. There, she won the half- marathon gold medal in a Games-record time of 1:10.4