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Tsegaye Kebede Wordofa (born 15 January 1987) is an Ethiopian athlete, who specialises in long-distance running, including the marathon. He quickly rose to become a prominent distance runner after his international debut at the Amsterdam Marathon in 2007. In his second year of professional running, he won the Paris Marathon, the Fukuoka Marathon and won the marathon bronze medal at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. In the 2009 season he established himself as one of Ethiopia's top athletes: he came second in the London Marathon and at his first World Championships in Athletics he took the bronze medal in the marathon. He retained his Fukuoka Marathon title at the end of 2009, running the fastest ever marathon race in Japan. He is ranked among the top ten fastest marathon runners of all time, and is the second fastest Ethiopian after Haile Gebrselassie.[1] Tsegaye was brought up as part of a large family, the fifth child of thirteen, and his early years were marked by poverty. Living in Gerar Ber, a town some 40 km north of Addis Ababa, he collected firewood to sell and herded livestock to supplement his father's earnings, paying for his own education and the rest of his family. He ate one meal a day and had to work every day to earn around 2.50 Ethiopian birr (US$0.30).[2] He began running for pleasure as a youth and, after competing at a half marathon in Addis Ababa in 2006, an athletics coach (Getaneh Tessema) offered him the chance to train with his group. He attended a 10 km time trial session with the group in the following days, and he beat all runners with the exception of Deriba Merga, who went on to win the Great Ethiopian Run that year.[2] He won the Abebe Bikila International Marathon a few months later,[3] effectively resolving the visa problems he had encountered while trying to race overseas.[2] His first marathon race abroad was the 2007 Amsterdam Marathon and he finished eighth with a new personal best of 2:08:16.[4] Despite failing to reach the podium, this established him as among Ethiopia's top marathon runners – indeed, Haile Gebrselassie and Deriba Merga were the only Ethiopians to run faster times that year.[5] Keen to establish himself, he looked towards obtaining a spot on the Ethiopian 2008 Olympic team for the marathon race.[2] He took second place behind Patrick Makau Musyoki at the Ras Al Khaimah Half Marathon with a time of 59:35, a personal best.[6] A win at the Paris Marathon in April improved his chances of selection, as his sprint finish earned him another personal best with 2:06:40.[7] He finished third in the World 10K Bangalore race the following month, setting a best of 28:10 over the distance.[8] Haile Gebrselassie stated that he did not intend to compete in the Beijing Olympics, meaning that Tsegaye and Merga would carry the medal hopes for Ethiopia.[2] With only two years of competitive running and one year of international competition to his credit,[2] the twenty-one year old Tsegaye won the bronze medal in men's marathon at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China, passing teammate Deriba Merga in the last 400 metres of the race.[9] He won the Great North Run in October,[10] and finished the year with a win at the Fukuoka International Marathon; his time of 2:06:10 broke Samuel Wanjiru's course record and was the fastest marathon on Japanese soil. This raised him in the rankings to the twelfth fastest ever marathon runner at the time.[11] He remained in strong form the following year: he set a new personal best of 2:05:20 at the 2009 London Marathon, taking second place behind Wanjiru.[12] This elevated him into the top ten in the all-time marathon lists and made him the second fastest Ethiopian after world record holder Haile Gebrselassie.[1] Representing Ethiopia at the 2009 World Championships in Athletics, Tsegaye repeated the feat he had achieved a year earlier at the Olympics, overtaking Deriba Merga and taking the bronze medal as the fastest Ethiopian finisher in the World Championship marathon.[13] He improved his best further at the end of that year, winning the Fukuoka International Marathon for a second time. He finished the race in 2:05:18, a new course record and again setting the fastest time ever recorded for the marathon in Japan.[14] Updated 6 December 2009 All Information taken from IAAF profile.[15] 1947: Toshikazu Wada (JPN) • 1948: Saburo Yamada (JPN) • 1949: Shinzo Koga (JPN) • 1950: Shunji Koyanagi (JPN) • 1951: Hiromi Haigo (JPN) • 1952: Katsuo Nishida (JPN) • 1953: Hideo Hamamura (JPN) • 1954: Reinaldo Gorno (ARG) • 1955: Veikko Karvonen (FIN) • 1956: Keizo Yamada (JPN) • 1957: Kurao Hiroshima (JPN) • 1958: Nobuyoshi Sadanaga (JPN) • 1959: Kurao Hiroshima (JPN) • 1959: Kurao Hiroshima (JPN) • 1960: Barry Magee (NZL) • 1961: Pavel Kantorek (TCH) • 1962: Toru Terasawa (JPN) • 1963: Jeff Julian (NZL) • 1964: Toru Terasawa (JPN) • 1965: Hidekuni Hiroshima (JPN) • 1966: Mike Ryan (NZL) • 1967: Derek Clayton (AUS) • 1968: Bill Adcocks (ENG) • 1969: Jerome Drayton (CAN) • 1970: Akio Usami (JPN) • 1971: Frank Shorter (USA) • 1972: Frank Shorter (USA) • 1973: Frank Shorter (USA) • 1974: Frank Shorter (USA) • 1975: Jerome Drayton (CAN) • 1976: Jerome Drayton (CAN) • 1977: Bill Rodgers (USA) • 1978: Toshihiko Seko (JPN) • 1979: Toshihiko Seko (JPN) • 1980: Toshihiko Seko (JPN) • 1981: Robert de Castella (AUS) • 1982: Paul Ballinger (NZL) • 1983: Toshihiko Seko (JPN) • 1984: Takeyuki Nakayama (JPN) • 1985: Hisatoshi Shintaku (JPN) • 1986: Juma Ikangaa (TAN) • 1987: Takeyuki Nakayama (JPN) • 1988: Toshihiro Shibutani (JPN) • 1989: Manuel Matias (POR) • 1990: Belayneh Densamo (ETH) • 1991: Shuichi Morita (JPN) • 1992: Tena Negere (ETH) • 1993: Dionicio Cerón (MEX) • 1994: Boay Akonay (TAN) • 1995: Luíz Antônio dos Santos (BRA) • 1996: Lee Bong-Ju (KOR) • 1997: Josia Thugwane (RSA) • 1998: Jackson Kabiga (KEN) • 1999: Gezahegne Abera (ETH) • 2000: Atsushi Fujita (JPN) • 2001: Gezahegne Abera (ETH) • 2002: Gezahegne Abera (ETH) • 2003: Tomoaki Kunichika (JPN) • 2004: Tsuyoshi Ogata (JPN) • 2005: Dimitry Baranovsky (UKR) • 2006: Haile Gebrselassie (ETH) • 2007: Samuel Wanjiru (KEN)  • 2008 – 2009: Tsegaye Kebede (ETH) 1976: Jean-Pierre Eudier (FRA) · 1977: Gérard Métayer (FRA) · 1978: Gilbert Coutant (FRA) · 1979: Fernand Kolbeck (FRA) · 1980: Sylvain Cacciatore (FRA) · 1981: Dave Cannon (GBR) and Ron Tabb (USA) · 1982: Ian Thompson (GBR) · 1983: Jacky Boxberger (FRA) · 1984: Hussein Ahmed Salah (DJI) · 1985: Jacky Boxberger (FRA) · 1986: Hussein Ahmed Salah (DJI) · 1987: Abebe Mekonnen (ETH) · 1988: Manuel Matias (POR) · 1989: Steve Brace (GBR) · 1990: Steve Brace (GBR) · 1991: Not Held  · 1992: Luis Soares (POR) · 1993: Leszek Bebło (POL) · 1994: Saïd Ermili (MAR) · 1995: Domingos Castro (POR) · 1996: Henrique Crisostomo (POR) · 1997: John Kemboi (KEN) · 1998: Jackson Kabiga (KEN) · 1999: Julius Rutto (FRA) · 2000: Mohamed Ouaadi (FRA) · 2001: Simon Biwott (KEN) · 2002: Benoît Zwierzchiewski (FRA) · 2003: Michael Kosgei Rotich (KEN) · 2004: Ambesse Tolosa (ETH) · 2005: Salim Kipsang (KEN) · 2006: Gashaw Asfaw (ETH) · 2007: Shami Mubarak (QAT) · 2008: Tsegay Kebede (ETH) · 2009: Vincent Kipruto (KEN)

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