ABOUT ETHIOPIA

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• Super Star Athlete Haile Gebre Selassie

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  Super Star Athlete Haile Gebre Selassie

  Super Star Athlete Haile Gebre Selassie of Ethiopia has broken 29 world records in his illustrious career.

  • The first man in Africa to win an Olympic Gold medal was an Ethiopian, Abebe Bikila , who ran barefoot in the marathon in Rome Olympic in 1960.
  •  He also won Gold Medal in marathon in the following Olympic Games in Tokyo in 1964.
  •  Miruts yifter won a double gold medal in the 5000 and 10,000 meters in the same event held at Moscow Olympic in 1980. He became the first person in the world to do so

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• The first woman in Africa to win an Olympic Gold medal in 10,000 meters

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  The first woman in Africa to win an Olympic Gold medal in 10,000 meters

  The first woman in Africa to win an Olympic Gold medal in 10,000 meters is an Ethiopian athelete, Deratu Tulu at Barcelona-Spain in 1992.

  • Fatuma Roba is the first African woman to win gold in th marathon.
  • Other Olympic Gold medal winners are million wolde, Gezahagn Abera, and Meseret Defar.
  • kenenisa Bekele(broke olmpic record in 5,000 and 10,000 meters in Beijing Olympic -2008).He holds world records in both the distances.
  • Tirunesh Dibaba is the first woman in the world to win gold in 5,000 and 10,000 meters at a single Olympic event (Beijing Olympic-2008).
  • she holds the current world record in 5000 meters.
  • Teki Gelana won the Olympic Gold medal in mararhon held at the London Olympic Games in 2012.
  • Gete wami, sileshi Siheen, Ejigayehu Dibaba, Assefa Mesgebu, Fita Bayissa, Addis Abebe, Mohammad kedir, eshetu Tura, Tesfaye Tolla and Tsegaye Kebede are Olympic medal winners.
  • The late yidenekechew Tessema nicknamed as The Rock of Gibraltor’ is called the father of modern sports not only in Ethiopia but also in Africa

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• Ethiopian Traditional Games

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  Ethiopian Traditional Games 

  There are 238 traditional games that that are played in Ethiopia

  • The most popular is Selus Gebeta’ believed to have existed since the Axumite kingdom

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• The last Emperor of Ethiopia, Haile Selassie I was the 225th

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  The last Emperor of Ethiopia, Haile Selassie I was the 225th

  It is claimed that the last Emperor of Ethiopia, Haile Selassie I was the 225th in line of the solomonic dynasty descending from king Solomon and Queen of Sheba.

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• Emperor Fasiledes

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  Emperor Fasiledes

  Emperor Fasiledes could see 11 churches dedicated to various saints from different angles through his bedroom windows in the Gondar castle .

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