I'm probably behind the curve on this, but Genzebes world record got me looking up stats. I knew about Tirunesh, but didn't know they also had an older sister named Ejegayehu that was an olympic Silver medalist. Add on top of this a Cousin that won 2 Olympic Gold and this family has quite a gene pool!
Wikipedia says they have a brother named Dejene that is marked as a future star. Anyone know anything about him?
Could you list all of them, their age, their medals (world and olympic) and their PRs
The brother is not any good. Genzebe will likely be the last great Dibaba until Tiru's soon to be born child hits 20.
Ejegayehu could have/should have won the olympic gold, except for a mental lapse in the last lap, mistook the Chinese runner passing her to be a lapped runner.
btw, I would so enjoy being behind Genzebe's curve ... sigh
Ejegayehu Dibaba
3000 metres - 8:35.94 min (2006)
5000 metres - 14:32.74 min (2004)
10,000 metres - 30:18.39 min (2005)
Half marathon - 1:16:40 hrs (2001)
Marathon - 2:22:09 hrs (2011)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ejegayehu_Dibaba
Tirunesh Dibaba
Outdoor
3000 m 8:29.5 (2006)
5000 m 14:11.15 (WR) (2008)
10,000 m 29:54.66 (2008)
Half marathon 1:06:55 (20013)
Indoor
3000 m 8:33.37 (2008)
Two miles 9:12.23 (2010)
5000 m 14:27.42 (2007)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tirunesh_Dibaba
Genzebe Dibaba
Outdoor 1500 metres 3:57.54 (2013)
3000 metres 8:26.21 (2014)
5000 metres 14:18.86 (2015)
Indoor 1500 metres 3:55.17 (2014)
3000 metres 8:16.60 (2014)
Two miles 9:00.48 (2014)
5000 metres 14:18.86 (2014)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genzebe_Dibaba
Deratu Tulu
Outdoor
1500 Metres 4:12.08
3000 Metres 8:46.32
5000 Metres 14:44.22
10,000 Metres 30:17.49
10 Kilometres 31:38
15 Kilometres 49:57
20 Kilometres 1:06:51
Half Marathon 1:08:26
25 Kilometres 1:24:13
30 Kilometres 1:41:40
Marathon 2:23:30
Indoor
5000 Metres 14:54.73
Oooooooo baby wrote:
Ejegayehu could have/should have won the olympic gold, except for a mental lapse in the last lap, mistook the Chinese runner passing her to be a lapped runner.
Looking at this video, I am not seeing what you're describing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRpsqH9sy-8Wowzass wrote:
Ejegayehu Dibaba
3000 metres - 8:35.94 min (2006)
5000 metres - 14:32.74 min (2004)
10,000 metres - 30:18.39 min (2005)
Half marathon - 1:16:40 hrs (2001)
Marathon - 2:22:09 hrs (2011)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ejegayehu_DibabaTirunesh Dibaba
Outdoor
3000 m 8:29.5 (2006)
5000 m 14:11.15 (WR) (2008)
10,000 m 29:54.66 (2008)
Half marathon 1:06:55 (20013)
Indoor
3000 m 8:33.37 (2008)
Two miles 9:12.23 (2010)
5000 m 14:27.42 (2007)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tirunesh_DibabaGenzebe Dibaba
Outdoor 1500 metres 3:57.54 (2013)
3000 metres 8:26.21 (2014)
5000 metres 14:18.86 (2015)
Indoor 1500 metres 3:55.17 (2014)
3000 metres 8:16.60 (2014)
Two miles 9:00.48 (2014)
5000 metres 14:18.86 (2014)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genzebe_DibabaDeratu Tulu
Outdoor
1500 Metres 4:12.08
3000 Metres 8:46.32
5000 Metres 14:44.22
10,000 Metres 30:17.49
10 Kilometres 31:38
15 Kilometres 49:57
20 Kilometres 1:06:51
Half Marathon 1:08:26
25 Kilometres 1:24:13
30 Kilometres 1:41:40
Marathon 2:23:30
Indoor
5000 Metres 14:54.73
Wow that's insane. They need to start dating the Bekele bros if we wanna see a sub 14 5k woman or a sub 2 hour marathon man or sub 26 min 10k man
Wowzass wrote:
Oooooooo baby wrote:Ejegayehu could have/should have won the olympic gold, except for a mental lapse in the last lap, mistook the Chinese runner passing her to be a lapped runner.
Looking at this video, I am not seeing what you're describing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRpsqH9sy-8
Agreed,. No lapped runner passes the leaders...
Wowzass wrote:
Genzebe Dibaba
Indoor 1500 metres 3:55.17 (2014)
3000 metres 8:16.60 (2014)
Two miles 9:00.48 (2014)
5000 metres 14:18.86 (2014)
Bonkers
Oooooooo baby wrote:
Ejegayehu could have/should have won the olympic gold, except for a mental lapse in the last lap, mistook the Chinese runner passing her to be a lapped runner.
Excellent bit of rewriting of the history!!
There is one more sister coming up, who as I recall is about 17 right now.
Knower of hustory wrote:
Oooooooo baby wrote:Ejegayehu could have/should have won the olympic gold, except for a mental lapse in the last lap, mistook the Chinese runner passing her to be a lapped runner.
Excellent bit of rewriting of the history!!
There is no rewriting of history. Ejegayehu gave that excuse. Obviously she knew the Chinese girl was not a lapped runner, but she wanted to be the first Ethiopian to finish.
John F. Canada wrote:
There is one more sister coming up, who as I recall is about 17 right now.
I don't believe she is competitive, though.
Rewriting history is changing facts. No, I have not changed the order of finish.If she was only expecting an attack from an Ethiopian runner, with green uniform, and didn't respond immediately to a white uniform passing by, a fraction of a second delay at the end made the difference. The video does not rule that out, IMO.Watch the 2005 world championships 5000 and 10000, the Chinese runner was good, but Ejegayehu outkicked her both times by a wide margin. I don't know how many times they faced each other, I'm willing to bet Ejegayehu finished ahead majority of the time. As I said, she could have and should have ...
Knower of hustory wrote:
Oooooooo baby wrote:Ejegayehu could have/should have won the olympic gold, except for a mental lapse in the last lap, mistook the Chinese runner passing her to be a lapped runner.
Excellent bit of rewriting of the history!!
Let's be honest, Dibaba stood no chance, the Chinese bird flew past her in the homestretch.
Could have, should of, blahblah
dwightarm wrote:
John F. Canada wrote:There is one more sister coming up, who as I recall is about 17 right now.
I don't believe she is competitive, though.
It sounded from one article like that is changing (she had started training).
Oooooooo baby wrote:
Rewriting history is changing facts. No, I have not changed the order of finish.
If she was only expecting an attack from an Ethiopian runner, with green uniform, and didn't respond immediately to a white uniform passing by, a fraction of a second delay at the end made the difference. The video does not rule that out, IMO.
Watch the 2005 world championships 5000 and 10000, the Chinese runner was good, but Ejegayehu outkicked her both times by a wide margin. I don't know how many times they faced each other, I'm willing to bet Ejegayehu finished ahead majority of the time.
As I said, she could have and should have ...
You've got to be kidding me.
The Chinese girl was on her shoulder from 200m out, which she no doubt had to sense . . . and when she went from her shoulder to passing her, she would have gone pedal to the metal if she had those reserves.
Furthermore, she finds no extra gear and does nothing but lose ground on the Chinese girl the whole last 100m.
I just don't understand how someone can watch that video and believe her excuse.
Oooooooo baby wrote:
I don't know how many times they faced each other, I'm willing to bet Ejegayehu finished ahead majority of the time.
As I said, she could have and should have ...
And El G beat Ngeny plenty of times prior to his 2000 Olympics loss.
But I'm sure he just wasn't expecting someone he had beaten so many times to out kick him. He could have, and should have, won.
God you're dense.
Of course Tirunesh is married to 2008 Olympic 10,000 meter silver medallist Sileshi Sihine - one of the fastest distance runners in history. Can you imagine their kids?