Lamecha Girma

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Lamecha Girma
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Personal information
Born (2000-11-26) 26 November 2000 (age 23)
Asella, Oromia, Ethiopia[1]
Sport
Country Ethiopia
Sport Athletics
Event(s) 3000 m steeplechase
Coached by Fikedu Girma (2021–)
Teshome Kebede (2018–2021)
Kefyalew Alemu (–2018)[1]
Achievements and titles
Personal best(s)
Medal record
Men's athletics
Representing  Ethiopia
Olympic Games
Silver medal – second place 2020 Tokyo 3000 m st.
World Championships
Silver medal – second place 2019 Doha 3000 m st.
Silver medal – second place 2022 Eugene 3000 m st.
Silver medal – second place 2023 Budapest 3000 m st.
World Indoor Championships
Silver medal – second place 2022 Belgrade 3000 m
African U20 Championships
Bronze medal – third place 2019 Abidjan 3000 m st.

Lamecha Girma (born 26 November 2000)[2] is an Ethiopian athlete who specialises in the 3000 metres steeplechase. He is the 2020 Tokyo Olympic silver medallist in the event and won silver medals at the 2019, 2022 and 2023 World Athletics Championships. Lamecha also won a silver in the 3000 metres at the 2022 World Indoor Championships. He is the world indoor record holder for the 3000 metres, which was set in February 2023. In June 2023 at the Meeting de Paris of the Diamond League, he broke the world record for the men's 3000 metres steeplechase.

Career

Early career

At age 18, Lamecha Girma earned the junior bronze medal in the 3000 m steeplechase at the 2019 African Under-20 Championships. The same year, he set an Ethiopian national record in his specialist event during the World Athletics Championships in Doha with a time of 8:01.36. He finished second behind Olympic and world champion Conseslus Kipruto who ran 8:01.35; Soufiane El Bakkali came third in 8:03.76.[3]

Breakthrough and Olympic silver medal

At the delayed 2020 Tokyo Olympics in 2021, Lamecha won the silver medal with a 8:10.38 clocking. This time El Bakkali finished first in 8:08.90 while third-placed Benjamin Kigen achieved 8:11.45.[4]

Girma became 2022 World Indoor Championship silver medallist at the 3000 metres in Belgrade. He ran 7:41.63 while his compatriot Selemon Barega clocked 7:41.38 for gold, and Marc Scott was third in 7:42.02.[5] A few months later in July, at the World Championships held in Eugene, Oregon, Girma had to settle for silver once again in his signature event, finishing behind El Bakkali who ran 8:25.13 and ahead of Kipruto in third in 8:27.92.[6]

World indoor and outdoor records

On 15 February 2023, he smashed the 25-year-old world indoor 3000 m record at the Meeting Hauts-de-France Pas-de-Calais in Liévin with a time of 7:23.81, slicing 1.09 seconds off the previous mark held by Daniel Komen since 1998.[7][8]

On 9 June 2023, Girma broke the world 3000 m steeplechase record at the Meeting de Paris of the Diamond League with a time of 7:52:11, which was 1.52 seconds faster than the 19-year-old previous world record of 7:53.63 set by Saif Saaeed Shaheen.[9] He was clearly in the lead with two laps to go before speeding up around the final lap, which he ran in about 64 seconds, to cross the finish line with the new fastest time. After the race, he expressed his happiness and stated that he had planned to beat the world record that night.[10]

Achievements

Personal bests

International competitions

Representing  Ethiopia
Year Competition Venue Position Event
2019 African U20 Championships Abidjan, Ivory Coast 3rd 3000 m s'chase 8:48.56
World Championships Doha, Qatar 2nd 3000 m s'chase 8:01.36 NR
2021 Olympic Games Tokyo, Japan 2nd 3000 m s'chase 8:10.38
2022 World Indoor Championships Belgrade, Serbia 2nd 3000 m i 7:41.63
World Championships Eugene, OR, United States 2nd 3000 m s'chase 8:26.01

Circuit wins

3000 metres steeplechase wins, other events specified in parenthesis

References

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