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First group of Eritrean runners arrived in Beijing
Eritrea's Hopeful Olympic runners arrived in Beijing safe. The
runners are first time Olympians Simret Sultan(Eritrea'
s best Female runners), Ali Abdella Afringi and Hais Wolday.
Simret Has performed well in Japan
and Kenya.
She also took part in all African games, and World Champinship
in Athletics.
This 24 year old, Eritrea's
most accomplished runner, has took part
in Ten World Cross
country Championships. Her best Perfromance
in this event- World Cross Country Championship
has been in Kenya
where she finished 9th from the world.
Simret also took part in three World Championships in
Athletics and her best performance was at 8th place for 5000 meters
in Osaka, Japan. Her personal
best for 5000 meters was registered in All African games at 15:16.
Simret has run for Eritrea
in 1500m, 3000m, 5000m, 10000m and Cross Country.
Ali Abdella
Afringi from Barentu is
also one of the rising stars of Eritrea's runners. Ali's
personal best are 7:44 for 3000m, and 13:10 for 5000m. Even though he
specializes in 5000m, he also has run 10000m and has took
part in five World Cross Country Championships. His best performance in
World Cross Country Championships has been in Fukuoka, Japan
at 8th place following to Zerisenay at 4th and Yonas at 7th thereby placing Eritrea for its first Silver medal as
a country.
Hais Wolday is relatively new in
representing the country. He represented Eritrea
at the World Cross Country Championships in Japan in 2006 and he scored an
Olympic qualifying time by running a 1500m in 3:37 at Jerez de la Frontera on June 24 of 2008.
These
three runners will be training
in high altitude in Beijing and will
represent Eritrea
at the Opening ceremony
of the Olympics.
Zerisenay
Tadesse, Teklemariam Medhin and Kidane Tadesse will finish their training in the high
altitude of Eritrea and
head to China
in about a week. The rest of the athletes will folllow
few days after them.
We would like to congratulate
the athletic leaders of our nation, the coaches, the Olympians, and
the people of Eritrea.
EAAA members of DC champter
INVITES all Eirtreans
of the DC metro area to watch the Olympic events of Eritrean runners in Bet
-Tsihfet. Schedule of the event that Eritrean runners
to take part will be posted in our website.www.eaaarunners. org
EAAA has also set
up email account, eaaacomments@ gmail.com, for our people to give their
ideas to improve Eritrean Athletics. Please make your ideas count to
advance Eritrea
in Athletics.
Long live Eritrean Athletics,
Yohannes Debesai,
Chairman, Transition-EAAA
WWW.EAAARUNNERS.
ORG
EAAACOMMENTS@ GMAIL.COM
A look back at history: What Eritrean Journalist Essayas wrote about the best ERITREAN VICTORY Where Ali
Abdella Afringi has
contributed.
Senior
Men Long Race (12km) World Cross Country Championsips
Eritrea ranked SECOND – Silver Medal
4 - Zerisenay Tadesse Habteselassie (35.47)
7 - Yonas Kifle Andebrhan
(36:05)
8 - Ali Abdalla Afringi
(36:18)
9 - Tesfayohannes Mesfin Fissehatsion (36:18)
19 - Samson Kiflemariam Gashazghi
(36:41)
Eritrea got its second and best ever ranking in this World Cross Country
Championships today, Sunday April 2, 2006 by standing second in 12km. This
was so through the hard work of the aforementioned five athletes. Zerisenay, Yonas, Ali and Tesfayohannes stood within the top 10 to secure this
unique of its kind and great success. Through the past few years Eritrea was honored to line up together with
the best world long distance countries such as Ethiopia
and Kenya.
But this time, beaten only by the first placed Kenyan athletes, our
athletes overtook Ethiopians that stood third following Eritrea for
the first time in history. Zerisenay Tadesse and Yonas Kifle were the backbone of the team. But it was Ali Abdela and Tesfayohannes Mesfin who stole the show by lining up within the first
ten winners to mark this marvelous victory. Hefty applause goes to Ali Abdela who participated in such World Cross Country
Championships for the first time in his career to follow Yonas Kifle to an eighth
place. Incredible!
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