Sweden's Abebe Aregawi who Retired in 2015, Came Back in 2024 ran 2 Road 10k's Her Debut was 31.05 , Tonight she ran 1:06.36 in the Lisboa Half Marathon her Debut in the Half Marathon
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She has a great Swedish name !
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For those who don’t remember, Aregawi was the #1 1500 woman in the world ca. 2012-2014.
2013 World Champion, 2014 World Indoor Champion, 2012 Olympic silver (retroactively, dirtiest race ever), 12 Diamond League 1500 wins.
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Really ? wrote:
She has a great Swedish name !
Like Bernard Lagat?
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John Wesley Harding wrote:
For those who don’t remember, Aregawi was the #1 1500 woman in the world ca. 2012-2014.
2013 World Champion, 2014 World Indoor Champion, 2012 Olympic silver (retroactively, dirtiest race ever), 12 Diamond League 1500 wins.
And she was also popped herself for meldonium early in 2016.
However, she was cleared of the charge meldonium was legal in 2015 and they weren't sure how long it stayed in your system. Bizarrely, it appears she never competed on the track again after her positive meldonium test. She was only 25 when she tested positive.Does anyone know why she's been retired for the last 9 years? Did she start a family? Get injured? Think she wouldn't be good without the meldonium?This post was edited 2 minutes after it was posted.186 -
Grassrunner wrote:
Steffe!! wrote:
Like Bernard Lagat?
Bernard is a German name.
Unlike Parsons
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Yeah, and I was banned from putting "keto" in my username.
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Really ? wrote:
She has a great Swedish name !
Life is going to be a challenge for you.
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Means she’s from the country of Swedish, a Nordic country near Danish, Finnish, and Norwegish.
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Low Carb Dieter wrote:
Grassrunner wrote:
Bernard is a German name.
Unlike Parsons
It's unlikely that much more than 1% of US citizens have "American" names, but here's one:
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Her name is Abeba, Abebe is a man's name.
LRC update: Thanks. The OP had it wrong and we repeated their mistake. We have changed the thread title.
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rojo wrote:
John Wesley Harding wrote:
For those who don’t remember, Aregawi was the #1 1500 woman in the world ca. 2012-2014.
2013 World Champion, 2014 World Indoor Champion, 2012 Olympic silver (retroactively, dirtiest race ever), 12 Diamond League 1500 wins.
And she was also popped herself for meldonium early in 2016.
However, she was cleared of the charge meldonium was legal in 2015 and they weren't sure how long it stayed in your system. Bizarrely, it appears she never competed on the track again after her positive meldonium test. She was only 25 when she tested positive.
Does anyone know why she's been retired for the last 9 years? Did she start a family? Get injured? Think she wouldn't be good without the meldonium?I have an update. From an article last year (via bing translate) after her 31:05.
Fridott wrote:
In 2016, the middle-distance skier was investigated for doping, this after testing positive for the substance meldonium, which had recently been banned. And even though Aregawi was eventually completely cleared of the suspicion of doping offences*, the investigation and all the turns led to the end of Aregawi's running career. She missed the opportunity to compete at the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro and then moved back to her native Ethiopia, quit her sports career and started a family.52 -
douglas burke wrote:
Sweden's Abebe Aregawi who Retired in 2015, Came Back in 2024 ran 2 Road 10k's Her Debut was 31.05 , Tonight she ran 1:06.36 in the Lisboa Half Marathon her Debut in the Half Marathon
Yes, and Lisbon is not a fast course. Most people here run 1 to 2 minutes slower than on super fast courses like Valencia. I saw the race on Portuguese TV. The leading men went through 10km in 28:40+.
Sam Barata, the top Portuguese guy ran 1:01:00, and he's a 59:40, from Valencia, 2023. He's in great shape, he said on Portuguese TV. Chiqi Perez, the Spanish mini monster, barely broke 62:00 here, 61:48. He's a 60:58 guy, and 27:46 track. Perez ran 27:45 (km) in Valencia just 2 months ago. That points to 60:00-60:30 half marathon.
Abeba Aregawi, can run 1:04:00 or faster in the coming months. The issue is she doesn't have many more years left as she's already getting up there in age.
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Kiplimo ran a world record on this course, so it can be fast.
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Really ? wrote:
She has a great Swedish name !
Using that logic there has never been a T&F athlete with an american name.
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Really ? wrote:
She has a great Swedish name !
Appears she was fast-tracked as a Swedish citizen and lied about her relationship status and how long she had spent in Sweden. As soon as she was popped, she divorced her husband and went back to Epiopia. It's comical that she was ever allowed to represent Sweden, let alone that she still does.
Abeba Aregawi developed into the world's best 1,500-meter runner, winning both indoor and outdoor World Championships gold medals. She also won an outdoor European Championships silver medal and an indoor European Championships gold medal in Gothenburg in 2013.
But the successes were also marred by scandals.
SportExpressen had a series of revelations that gave a new picture of Sweden's new running queen. She had registered as an expatriate the day before she was ready to compete for Sweden, she had lied about her relationship with her Swedish husband Henok Weldegebriel and she had claimed in questioning by the Tax Agency that she had "never lived in Sweden" .
In 2016, the blow came that she never recovered from: Aregawi tested positive for the banned substance meldonium and was investigated for violating anti-doping rules.
It all ended with her being acquitted , after the anti-doping agency Wada issued new directives on how cases with meldonium should be handled.
But Abeba Aregawi never returned to the running track.Aregawi last competed in 2015. Since then, she has remained in Ethiopia and reports about her have been sparse, to say the least.
Now, however, it is clear that she has retired. According to SportExpressen's information, the 28-year-old has informed the federation that she has decided to end her career and this has been confirmed by national team captain Karin Torneklint.
– She may decide she wants to make a comeback in the future, but it's true that she has put her investment aside, says Torneklint.
– We have now removed her from our "active list" for anti-doping.Abeba Aregawi has divorced Henok Weldegebriel and remarried Ethiopian running star Yemane Tsegay. Together they have a daughter named Heran.
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