27 Facts About Genzebe Dibaba

Genzebe Dibaba Keneni is an Ethiopian middle- and long-distance runner.

The next year, Genzebe Dibaba added her second Cross Country U20 title, and in 2010, the World U20 Championships 5,000m gold.

Genzebe Dibaba was named Laureus Sportswoman of the Year for 2014, and IAAF World Female Athlete of the Year in 2015.

Genzebe Dibaba 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.

Genzebe Dibaba's older sister Tirunesh is a celebrated athlete who won many major medals.

Genzebe Dibaba won the junior women's title at both the 2008 and 2009 IAAF World Cross Country Championships and finished fifth in the same event in 2007.

Genzebe Dibaba became the second junior woman ever to win two junior cross country championships in a row.

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

At the 2008 Bislett Games, Genzebe Dibaba recorded a personal best time of 15:02.41 in the 5000 metres, during the same race where her sister Tirunesh set a new world record.

Genzebe Dibaba did the same a year later in the same race, improving her personal best by more than five seconds.

Genzebe Dibaba ran an excellent heat, finishing fourth and qualifying for the final where, in her first major senior championship race, she finished in eighth position.

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

Genzebe Dibaba was the runner-up at the Great Edinburgh Cross Country in January 2011 behind Linet Masai.

Genzebe Dibaba placed ninth at the 2011 IAAF World Cross Country Championships two months later.

Genzebe Dibaba was third at the Golden Gala and runner-up at the Bislett Games.

Genzebe Dibaba was selected for the 2012 London Olympics, but a hamstring injury in the final lap of her heat saw her eliminated from the competition.

On 1 February 2014, in Karlsruhe, Germany, Genzebe Dibaba ran 3:55.17 in the 1500 m indoor event, beating the previous indoor world record by over 3 seconds.

In that one race, Genzebe Dibaba improved her own personal record by over thirty seconds, the world record by almost seven, and even though it was set on a shorter track indoors, her time was the number four time at the distance ever.

Genzebe Dibaba stands alone as the only one to do this feat in three different cities and meets, and in all individual events under FAT.

Genzebe Dibaba won the women's 5000 m at the 2015 Prefontaine Classic in Eugene, Oregon, in a then-personal best time of 14:19.76.

Genzebe Dibaba was named the IAAF women's World Athlete of the Year for 2015.

In February 2016, Genzebe Dibaba competed in Stockholm's Globen Galan meeting.

Genzebe Dibaba ran the indoor mile in 4 minutes and 13.31 seconds, breaking Doina Melinte's 26-year-old world record of 4:17.14, which had been set in 1990.

Genzebe Dibaba was removed from the track in a wheelchair.

Genzebe Dibaba took the silver medal in a time of 4:10.27 and Jenny Simpson placed third with 4:10.53.

Genzebe Dibaba ran the distance in 5:23.75, an improvement on the former indoor best by Gabriela Szabo from 1998 by 6 seconds.