{"id":667597,"date":"2024-10-28T15:53:20","date_gmt":"2024-10-28T13:53:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deploy.frankfurt-marathon.com\/?p=667597"},"modified":"2024-10-28T15:54:23","modified_gmt":"2024-10-28T13:54:23","slug":"hawi-feysa-joins-marathon-elite-with-breakthrough-in-frankfurt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.frankfurt-marathon.com\/en\/hawi-feysa-joins-marathon-elite-with-breakthrough-in-frankfurt\/","title":{"rendered":"Hawi Feysa joins marathon elite with breakthrough in Frankfurt"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Ethiopia\u2019s women continue to dominate the all-time list in the marathon: 17 Ethiopians are among the 30 fastest runners ever. And in the current season\u2019s list they occupy 14 of the 25 top spots. The newest Ethiopian marathon world-class runner is Hawi Feysa. With a stunning 2:17:25 performance the 25 year-old smashed the course record of the Mainova Frankfurt Marathon and moved up to 19th in the all-time list.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Hawi Feysa improved her personal best by over six minutes, but knowing her background this did not come as a huge surprise. Feysa has a 65:41 PB in the half marathon, she was sixth at the World Cross Country Championships last year and she belongs to what is currently the best marathon training group on the planet. Coached by Gemedu Dedefo in Addis Ababa Olympic silver medallist and former world record holder Tigst Assefa, current Berlin Marathon champion Tigist Ketema and the reigning World Marathon Champion Amane Shankule are among her training partners. Olympic Champion Tamirat Tola and Boston winner Sisay Lemma are also coached by Gemedu Dedefo.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cThere is an A and a B group in training and I am with the A group. There is not much difference between us in our group in training. We are more or less on the same level,\u201c said Hawi Feysa. \u201cIt is very motivating for me to see how successful the others are. This makes me stronger and additionally my coach motivates me a lot.\u201c<\/span><\/p>\n

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Hawi Feysa comes from Ambo, where she grew up with five sisters and two brothers. \u201cMy parents are farmers, they have cows and horses,\u201c said Hawi Feysa, who now supports her family financially. The city of Ambo is around 100 kilometres west of Addis Ababa and is part of the Oromia region. A large number of Ethiopia\u2019s star runners come from this area, among them multiple Olympic champions Tirunesh Dibaba and Kenenisa Bekele. \u201cTirunesh and Genzebe Dibaba are my idols. I was ten years old when I watched Tirunesh competing at World Championships and Olympic Games. Her success really impressed me and I knew: I have to start running,\u201c said Hawi Feysa. In contrast to many African world-class athletes running to school and back did not form the foundation for Hawi Feysa\u2019s future career. \u201cMy school was only one kilometre away from home. But I went to a loop course in Ambo to run with others. There were always older boys as well. We had no coach, but from time to time we were able to enter local races organised by a regional coach who also helped us training for these events. The best athletes of these races were then invited to join a club in Addis Ababa,\u201c said Hawi Feysa, who moved to the capital at the age of 16. In the meantime she is also married in Addis Ababa.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cI liked running on the track. But I was injured quite often, so I decided to switch to road running,\u201c said Hawi Feysa who was eighth at the 2019 World Championships over 5,000 m. In Frankfurt the 25 year-old now achieved a big marathon breakthrough. \u201cMy next goal will be to run sub 2:15. I don\u2019t know my schedule yet for next year, but if possible I would like to return to Frankfurt. The course is good and you can run even faster here.\u201c One day Hawi Feysa might well bring a sister with her to the Mainova Frankfurt Marathon. \u201cTwo of my younger sisters are already that strong that they are living with me in Addis Ababa for training. I am sure that one day they will reach my level.\u201c Ethiopia\u2019s pool of talents seems inexhaustible.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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[vc_row][vc_column width=”2\/3″][vc_column_text css=””] Ethiopia\u2019s women continue to dominate the all-time list in the marathon: 17 Ethiopians are among the 30 fastest runners ever. And in the current season\u2019s list they occupy 14 of the 25 top spots. The newest Ethiopian marathon world-class runner is Hawi Feysa. With a stunning 2:17:25 performance the 25 year-old smashed ganzen Artikel lesen…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":707,"featured_media":667534,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[353],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-667597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-marathon-news"],"acf":[],"newsThumbnail":"https:\/\/www.frankfurt-marathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/mainova-frankfurt-marathon_2024_Feysa_HawiMoo-Frankfurt24_-59-360x202.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.frankfurt-marathon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.frankfurt-marathon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.frankfurt-marathon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.frankfurt-marathon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/707"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.frankfurt-marathon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=667597"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.frankfurt-marathon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":667600,"href":"https:\/\/www.frankfurt-marathon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667597\/revisions\/667600"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.frankfurt-marathon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/667534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.frankfurt-marathon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=667597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.frankfurt-marathon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=667597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.frankfurt-marathon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=667597"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.frankfurt-marathon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=667597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}