Derartu Tulu
Athlete, Olympic Medalist, and Track and Field Athlete
Injured Radcliffe vows to race on...don't think it is the end of my career." The women's elite race was won by two-time Olympic 10,000m champion Derartu Tulu of Ethiopia, who saw off Russia's Ludmila Petrova in the final kilometre. Radcliffe attributed the problem to... In this article: Paula Radcliffe, Tendinitis, Surgery, New York, BBC Radio 5, Cortisone, Tonsillitis, Derartu Tulu, and Britain |
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Taipei Times | November 02, 2009
American earns rare New York Marathon win
...and 15 seconds on Sunday. Ethiopia's former world and Olympic 10,000m champion Derartu Tulu won the women's event in 2:28.52 after pulling away from Russia's Ludmila Petrova in the last half kilometer. World record holder Paula...
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Reuters | November 01, 2009
Keflezighi, Tulu win New York marathon titles
...on Sunday. Ethiopia's former world and Olympic 10,000 metres champion Derartu Tulu won the women's event through the city's five boroughs in 2:28.52 after pulling away from Russia's Ludmila Petrova in the last mile. Race favorite and...
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CNN | November 01, 2009
U.S. man wins NYC marathon
...marathon that year. The female champion, 37-year-old Derartu Tulu of Ethiopia, was neck and neck with Ludmila Petrova of Russia until the last leg of the race, when she sprinted ahead to victory with a time of 2:28:52. Tulu, a two-time...
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Chicago Sun-Times | November 01, 2009
U.S. man wins for 1st time since '82
...he said. ''Definitely wore it with big honor and pride.'' Derartu Tulu of Ethiopia was the women's winner in 2:28:52, eight seconds faster than Ludmila Petrova of Russia. Two-time defending champion Paula Radcliffe of Great Britain, who...
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Boston Globe | November 02, 2009
Radcliffe can't overcome injury at NYC Marathon
...just try to stay with them.'" Radcliffe didn't reach the podium, finishing fourth in the race behind winner Derartu Tulu of Ethiopia, 41-year-old Ludmila Petrova of Russia and Christelle Daunay of France. Meb Keflezighi became the first...
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Keflezighi leads run of Americans in NYC
...under 2:09:30. It was a historic day, too, for Ethiopia, which produced its first women's champion here when Derartu Tulu outkicked Russia's Ludmila Petrova in the final half-mile to win by eight seconds in 2 hours 28 minutes 52 seconds...
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Derartu Tulu (born March 21, 1972 in Bekoji, Arsi Province, Ethiopia) is an Ethiopian long distance track, road and marathon athlete.
Derartu (ዻራርቱ ቱሉ), a member of the Oromo ethnic group, grew up tending cattle in the village of Bekoji in the highlands of Arsi Province. The same village as Kenenisa Bekele, the male running sensation.
Her cousins Ejegayehu Dibaba, Tirunesh Dibaba and Genzebe Dibaba are all successful international long-distance runners, continuing the successful athletic history of the Oromo people.
In 2004, she declined to enter the New York Marathon, where she would have been likely to face marathon World Record holder Paula Radcliffe, whom she has had a great rivalry with over the years, and focused instead on the Olympic Games, where she won the bronze medal.
Tulu is the first Ethiopian woman to win a medal in the Olympic Games. She is also the first woman from sub-Saharan Africa to win an Olympic gold medal. Her 1992 Olympic gold medal launched her career. She sat out 1993 and 1994 with a knee injury and returned to competition in the 1995 IAAF World Cross Country Championships where she won gold, having arrived at the race only an hour before the start. She was stuck in Athens airport without sleep for 24 hours. The same year she lost out to Fernanda Ribeiro and won silver at the World Championships 10,000.
Her transition to the marathon has been rewarded with victories in London 2001 and at the competitive Tokyo Marathon. At the age of 33 she finished 4th at the 2005 World Championships setting her personal best time of 2:23.
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