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About Yeshi Esayias
- Yeshi Esayias Tessema (born 28 December 1985) is an Ethiopian long-distance runner who competes in marathon races.
- Her personal best for the distance is 2:24:06 hours.
- She has won races in Ottawa and Montreal and is a two-time winner of the Taipei International Marathon and Daegu Marathon.
- She has also finished second at the Tokyo Marathon (twice) and the Beijing Marathon. Yeshi made her debut over 42.195 km at the 2007 Marrakech Marathon, where her run of 2:40:10 hours brought her second place.
- She ran two further marathons that year, improving to 2:36:58 for third at the Ottawa Marathon, then performing less well at the Istanbul Marathon (16th in 2:44:14).
- Returning to the site of her debut, she won the 2008 Marrakech race in a personal best of 2:35:40 hours.
- She went faster again in Ottawa, timing 2:35:28, but this was only enough for fifth on that occasion.
- Podium finishes followed with a win at the Marathon Oasis de Montreal and third at the Casablanca Marathon.The 2009 season saw Yeshi dip under two and a half hours as she defended her Marrakech title in 2:29:52 hours.
- She posted similar marks to win that year's Daegu Marathon and Taipei Marathon, as well as taking runner-up in Casablanca.
- Heading back to East Asia in 2010, she repeated her victories in Daegu and Taipei.
- Her Daegu win was a course record and personal best time of 2:29:17 hours.
- She was also fourth at the Taiyuan International Marathon.
- Yeshi improved her times again in 2011: she was faster than her course record in Daegu, running 2:26:04, but ended up second behind Atsede Habtamu.
- She was runner-up again later that year, finishing behind Wei Xiaojie at the Beijing Marathon, although she did finish ahead of Catherine Ndereba.Yeshi had a personal best for a sixth consecutive year in 2012, with her best run being 2:26:00 for second at the Tokyo Marathon.
- After a three-year absence she ran at the Ottawa Marathon and this time she won the race.
- She was part of an Ethiopian podium sweep at the Guangzhou Marathon in November, coming second to Mulu Seboka.
- Yeshi had a near exact repeat performance at the 2013 Tokyo Marathon, finishing one second slower than in 2012, but still in second place.
- She set a new personal best to win at the Ottawa Marathon in May, finishing in a course record time of 2:25:31 hours.
- She improved further to 2:24:06 hours at the Frankfurt Marathon, taking sixth place.
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