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8 de may. de 2023 · Olympic gold-medallist long-distance runner, Derartu Tulu, will run alongside participants from around the world at the fourth WHO Walk the Talk, which takes place on Sunday, 21 May 2023 in Geneva, Switzerland.. The event aims to encourage people to come together and have fun while exercising, raise awareness about WHO’s mission toward quality health for all, and to celebrate the importance ...
3 de nov. de 2009 · New York, USASeventeen years after the Barcelona Olympics, seeing Derartu Tulu's name at the head of the results column may seem like a return to the past. On the day after the 2009 ING New York City Marathon, race director Mary Wittenberg introduced her women's champion, Derartu Tulu, as "A towering figure not only in the world of running, but among women leaders."
20 de sept. de 2023 · Derartu Tulu is an Ethiopian long-distance runner who participated in road, cross-country, and track events up to the marathon. She won gold in the 10,000-meter race at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens and silver at the Olympic Games in 1992 Barcelona. In the 10,000 at the World Athletics Championships, Derartu won silver in 1995 and gold in ...
Biografia. A member of the Oromo ethnic group, Derartu Tulu grew up tending cattle in the Arsi highlands of Ethiopia. She did not realize that she was an unusually fast runner until she was 16 years old. In the 10,000m final at the 1992 Olympic Games, Elana Meyer of South Africa pulled away from the field after 6,100m and only Tulu was able to ...
27 de sept. de 2022 · Derartu Tulu and Elana Meyer created one of the most iconic moments in Olympic history at the Barcelona 1992 Games. Ethiopia’s Tulu overtook Meyer on the last lap of women’s 10,000m athletics final to win a thrilling race. Meyer, a white South African, immediately ran over to hug her rival before they completed a lap of the track hand-in-hand.
Other articles where Derartu Tulu is discussed: Kenenisa Bekele: …Fatuma Roba, and Bekoji native Derartu Tulu, but his first athletic love was football (soccer). Bekele attended school through the ninth grade, and it was at school that he was introduced to running. He finished fourth in his first race, but in 1998 he won a provincial cross-country title and…
Derartu Tulu y Elena Meyer vuelven a encontrarse en Barcelona 30 años después de aquella épica competición. Le invitamos a una rueda de prensa con las legendarias atletas en el Museo Olímpico Joan Antoni Samaranch y a acompañarlas en su vuelta al Estadio Olímpico Lluís Companys, escenario de su memorable enfrentamiento.
