(Feb 04, 2013, iaaf)--Ethiopia’s London 2012 Olympic Games
Marathon champion Tiki Gelana was named as the female AIMS/ASICS World
Athlete of the Year for 2012 in Marugame, Japan, on Sunday (3).
President Emeritus of AIMS Hiroaki Chosa and AIMS Board Member and Vice President of the Japanese Athletics Federation Dr Keisuke Sawaki presented Gelana with the acclaimed Golden Shoe Trophy during an awards ceremony after she had won the Kagawa Marugame Half Marathon earlier in the day.
Gelana,
25, becomes the first Ethiopian women to win the AIMS/ASICS World
Athlete of the Year Award. She joins her male compatriots Gezahenge
Abera (2000) and Haile Gebrselassie (2006, 2007 & 2008) in winning
this prestigious award.
She started
2012 with a runaway win and personal best of 1:08:48 in the Marugame
Half Marathon but that was just a warm-up for a decisive five-minute
victory in the Rotterdam Marathon, where she became the fifth woman to
break 2:19 for the distance when she ran a national record of 2:18:58.
The
following week Mary Keitany won the London Marathon in the only faster
time posted during the year, but when both went to London for the
Olympic Games it was Gelana who triumphed. Read more from iaaf »
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