Derartu Tulu
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"Derartu Tulu"/Bekoji, Ethiopia) is an Ethiopian Long-distance track event/long distance track, Road running/road and marathon (sport)/marathon Athletics (sport)/athlete.

Derartu (???? ??) grew up tending cattle in the village of Bekoji (woreda)/Bekoji in the highlands of Arsi Province, the same village as Kenenisa Bekele.

Derartu is the first Ethiopian woman to win a gold medal which she won in the 10,000m event at the 1992 Barcelona Olympic Games. The race, where her and Elana Meyer (South Africa) raced for lap after lap way ahead of the rest of the field launched her career. She sat out 1993 and 1994 with a knee injury and returned to competition in the 1995 IAAF World Cross Country Championships where she won gold, having arrived at the race only an hour before the start. She was stuck in Athens airport without sleep for 24 hours. The same year she lost out to Fernanda Ribeiro and won silver medal/silver at the World Championships 10,000.

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I have beaten her many times. We will see what happens.

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It has always been my ambition to win this event. I have tried two or three times before but on this occasion I knew I was coming into the race injury-free.

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I'm very happy with the time as I haven't trained since the World Championships.

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I'm even more pleased to win because I've been finishing second and third a lot recently.

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I was not looking for a time, I was trying to win.

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It's good to get back racing again and even better winning.

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