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| Full Name: |
Werkesh
Kidane
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| Sex: |
Female |
| Born: |
21
November 1981, (Axum, Tigre Province, Ethiopia) |
| Event: |
5000m,
10000 m, Cross- country |
Personal Bests:
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3000m
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8:41.58
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2002
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Monaco
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5000m
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14:43.53
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2002
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Berlin, Germany
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10,000m
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31:43.41
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2001
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Villeneuve d'Ascq
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1997
As a 15 year old, Worknesh
was 13th in the Junior race at the World Cross-country, the only time that she
has finished out of the top 10.
1999
Worknesh was World Junior
Cross-country champion in 1999.
2000
At 18 Kidane finished 7th at
5000m in the Sydney Olympics (14:47.40).
2002
She was runner up last year
in the senior 4km at the World Cross-country.
She improved her PB at
5000m to 14:43.53 (5th fastest of 2002), finishing second to Berhane Adere
(Ethiopia) in the Berlin GL meeting.
Late in the year she won the
Great Ethiopian Run 10km in course-record time.
2003
Pre-race - World
Cross-country - After two wins, a 2nd and a
4th in four weeks on the European cross-country circuit, she returned home for
the Ethiopian World Cross-country trials. There she won the 8km race by 10
seconds, pulling away from a strong field in the final kilometres, and the next
day, only slightly weary, finished a strong 2nd in the 4km.
She has been named to both
teams, and could well come away with two individual medals in Lausanne.
Workesh Kidane took the Long
Course (8km) title at the World cross Country.
W Kidane - World Cross-country
2003
2004
 World
Cross Country - Workesh
Kidane (848) took the Bronze Medal in the Senior Women's Long Course 8km race on
Saturday in a time of 27:34. Ethiopia took the Team Gold medal with 26 points.
World
Cross Country - Workesh
Kidane (848) was 4th in the
Senior Women's Short Course 4km race on Sunday, in a time of 13:14. Ethiopia
took the Team Gold medal with 19 points.
2005
Ethiopia's
Werknesh Kidane was third in the women's 8km race at the World Cross Country.
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Great
North Run 2005
The
women's race was won for the first time by an Ethiopian, Derartu Tulu
claiming an emphatic victory leading from start to finish to cross the
line in the world leading time for the year of 1:07.33.
The
two-time Olympic 10000m champion was part of an early leading group that
included fellow countrywoman Worknesh Kidane and Berhane Adere. Edith
Masai last year's runner-up and Catherine Ndereba led the Kenyan
challenge, with Jelena Prokopcuka of Latvia a former third placer in the
world's biggest half marathon, also a contender. But after eight miles,
Tulu with only her colleagues having stayed with her, injected extra pace
to draw away, taking Kidane with her but Adere was unable to respond.
Tulu,
going even quicker, at the nine-mile stage dropped Kidane and although she
was clearly struggling towards the latter part of the race, she maintained
her form to claim victory. Kidane, contesting only her second half
marathon was second in 1:08.09 just holding off the fast closing
Prokopcuka who ran a tremendous last three miles, by two seconds. |
| World
Cross-country Career: |
1997
- 13th,(Jnr) team
bronze
1998 - Bronze
(Jnr), team gold
1999 - Gold
(Jnr), team
gold
2000 - 9th
(Jnr), team silver
2001 - 5th
(4km), team gold
2002 - ?
(8km)
- Silver
(4km), team
gold 2003 -
Gold
(8km)
2004 - Bronze
(8km), team
gold
- 4th
(4km), team gold
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