Werknesh Kidane

Runner

Birthday November 21, 1981

Birth Sign Scorpio

Birthplace Ethiopia

Age 42 years old

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About

Long-distance 5,000 and 10,000-meters runner who competed at the 2000 and 2004 Olympics; she won the gold at the 2003 IAAF World Cross Country Championships.

Before Fame

She achieved her first international title at the 1999 IAAF World Cross Country Championships in the junior race.

Trivia

She won the silver in the 10,000 meters at the 2003 World Championships in Athletics in Paris, where she placed behind Ejegayehu Dibaba, also a famed Ethiopian runner.

Family Life

She married fellow Ethiopian long-distance runner and Olympian Gebregziabher Gebremariam.

Associated With

Her marathon debut came in 2011 at the Boston Marathon, where she was seventh with 2:26:15; she followed this up by competing in the Carlsbad 5000, where she came in behind Tirunesh Dibaba.