At 13 she was reluctant to take up physical education classes during her formative years in school, but a decade later Ethiopia’s Letesenbet Gidey smashed the women’s world half-marathon record during ...

In her debut at the distance, Letesenbet Gidey obliterated the women’s half marathon world record, winning the Valencia Half Marathon Trinidad Alfonso in 1:02:52. The Ethiopian’s performance on Sunday ...

Ethiopian athlete Letesenbet Gidey celebrates after breaking the 5,000m world record during the NN Valencia World Record Day at the Turia stadium in Valencia on October 7, 2020. - Ethiopia’s ...

Ethiopian Letesenbet Gidey fell as she was passed for the lead within sight of the finish at the world cross-country championships, then was helped up and crossed the finish line on her own. Gidey, ...

Letesenbet Gidey breaks the 10,000-meter world record at the Ethiopian Olympic Trials. Just two days ago, Dutch runner Sifan Hassan broke the record at the same track. The rivals are favored to race ...

Last year, Letesenbet set a world 5000m record of 14 minutes 06.62 seconds. The Ethiopian is the first woman to hold both the 5000m and 10,000m world records since Norway's Ingrid Kristiansen who held ...

Letesenbet Gidey was the pre-race favorite and with the finishing line in sight it seemed as if the Ethiopian was to win gold with ease. But meters from the tape the 24-year-old fell, and in a blink ...

Ethiopia’s Letesenbet Gidey has broken the women’s 10,000m world record, just two days after it was set by Dutch star Sifan Hassan. Hassan took more than ten seconds off another Ethiopian Almaz ...

In the packed school hall where Efrem Gidey is speaking, there is a question from the back about injury and recovery. It’s pertinent and astute, especially coming as it does from one of the ...

Ethiopian long-distance runner Letesenbet Gidey rewrote a two-day-old 10,000m world record when she clocked 29:01.03 at the Ethiopian Olympic Trials in Hengelo, Netherlands. Letesenbet Gidey shaved ...