Belaynesh Oljira, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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Ethiopian long distance runner
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Place of Birth: Ethiopia
About Belaynesh Oljira
- Belaynesh Oljira Jemama (Amharic: ????? ????, born 26 June 1990) is an Ethiopian long-distance runner who competes mainly in 10K and half marathon races.
- She represented her country at the IAAF World Cross Country Championships in 2011. Born in Welega in Ethiopia, she demonstrated her potential as an endurance runner with a third-place finish at the Great Ethiopian Run.
- She began competing on the European circuit the following year and won the Le Mans Cross Country race before placing second at the European Clubs Cross Country Cup.
- She ran at IAAF Diamond League meetings that summer and set a 3000 metres track best of 8:40.73 minutes at the Herculis meet and a personal best time of 14:58.16 minutes for the 5000 metres at the Meeting Areva.
- Belaynesh found success on the roads that year, having runner-up finishes at the 10 km du Conseil Général and Marseille-Cassis Classic, a third place in the Zhuhai Half Marathon, and a win at the Nice Half Marathon (where she set a best of 1:10:22 hours).
- She ended the year with a third place at the Sao Silvestre de Luanda in Angola.Representing Ethiopia's Commercial Bank team, she came third at the Jan Meda Cross Country in February 2011 and earned herself a spot for the Ethiopian world team.
- At the 2011 IAAF World Cross Country Championships, she came tenth in the women's senior race and took a share in the team silver medal alongside Meselech Melkamu, Wude Ayalew and Genzebe Dibaba.
- Turning to the track, she won the 10,000 metres title at the Ethiopian Athletics Championships.
- She then set a personal best of 31:17.80 minutes for that event at the Golden Spike Ostrava meet and placed third at the World 10K Bangalore behind Dire Tune and Merima Mohammed.
- She was selected for the Ethiopian team at the 2011 World Championships in Athletics, but ultimately did not compete. In November she was runner-up to Linet Masai at the Cross de Atapuerca race, then ran a new best of 1:07:27 hours at the Delhi Half Marathon, finishing in fourth place.
- Her first race of 2012 saw her win the Houston Half Marathon with a course record time of 1:08:26 hours (also a Texas state record).
- She greatly improved her 10,000 metres track best at the Prefontaine Classic in June, running a time of 30:26.70 minutes to take third place.
- This gained her a place on the Ethiopian team for the 2012 London Olympics and she managed to finish fifth in the 10,000 metres final.She made a step up in distance to the marathon at the start of 2013 and came fifth at the Dubai Marathon with her debut run of 2:25:01 hours.
- In October 2014 she won the 10K Great South Run in Portsmouth UK
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