Gotytom Gebreslase, an Ethiopian long-distance runner, was born on January 15, 1995. At the Berlin Marathon in Berlin, Germany in 2021, she took first place among women. She also ran her first marathon, clocking in at the eighth-fastest female time ever. Gebreslase finished third in the Tokyo Marathon in 2022 with a time of 2:18:18.
At the 2011 World Youth Championships in Athletics, which were held in Lille Métropole, France, she took home the gold medal in the girls’ 3000 meter competition. In addition, she took home the bronze medal in the women’s 5000-meter race at the 2012 African Athletics Championships in Porto Novo, Benin.
At the 2013 IAAF World Cross Country Championships in Bydgoszcz, Poland, she ran in the junior women’s race. She placed fourth in the women’s 5000-meter race during the 2015 African Games in Brazzaville, Republic of the Congo.
The race, held in the streets of Eugene, Ore., and neighboring Springfield, was a lesson in patience for the chase pack, which included three Americans, Sara Hall, Keira D’Amato and Emma Bates, when they came through the first lap of the three-lap course. Immediately before the race, Hall asked her teammates if they wanted to work together should they find themselves running a similar pace. Both enthusiastically agreed, and they controlled the pace together in groups of two and three for portions of the race.
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