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 Fitwi Sibhatu at the 2022 European Championships for the 10,000 Meters race | |||||||||||||||
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| Nationality | German | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 1 January 1996 | ||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Athletics | ||||||||||||||
Event | Long-distance running | ||||||||||||||
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Samuel Fitwi Sibhatu (born 1 January 1996) is a German marathon runner. He won a bronze medal at the 2024 European Athletics Championships and ran at the 2024 Summer Olympics.[1]
Early life
[edit]At the age of 17, Sibhatu fled his home country of Eritrea with a group of four peers to Cologne to escape the military regime . After his escape, he was taken in by a family in Stadtkyll, Rhineland-Palatinate.[2]
Career
[edit]Having obtained German citizenship in 2018,[3] Sibhatu competed for Germany in the 10,000 meters at the 2022 European Athletics Championships in Munich, where he finished in ninth place with a new personal best time of 28:03.92 minutes.[4]
In 2023, Sibhatu achieved a personal best time of 2:08:28 hours at the Berlin Marathon, this also placed him in fourth place on the German all-time list.[5]
On January 7, 2024, Sibhatu set a new best time of 2:06:27 in finishing fifth in the Dubai Marathon, that time met the qualifying standard for the 2024 Olympic Games.[6]
He won a bronze medal at the 2024 European Athletics Championships in the Men's half marathon team event. In the individual race he placed fifth.[7] He competed at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, placing fifteenth in the marathon in 2:09:50.[8] In December 2024, he ran 2:04:56 for the marathon in Valencia, Spain.[9]
In April 2025, he won the Hannover Marathon in 2:06:29.[10] At the 2026 Hamburg Marathon on 26 April, he finished second behind Moroccan Othmane El Goumri in a lifetime best of 2:04:45, moving to tenth on the European all-time list.[11]
References
[edit]- ↑ "Samuel Fitwi Sibhatu". World Athletics. Retrieved 10 August 2024.
- ↑ Altschuk, Hannah (1 August 2024). "Suddenly an Olympic hero – runner between two worlds (= SWR Portrait. No. 22)". Südwestrundfunk. Retrieved 10 August 2024.
- ↑ Hübner, Mario (8 January 2018). "Menschen: Ein Lauftalent aus Eritrea mischt die Szene in der Region Trier auf". volksfreund.de. Retrieved 10 August 2024.
- ↑ "EUROPEAN ATHLETICS CHAMPIONSHIPS - RESULTS 10,000 METRES: ITALIAN TRIUMPHS AHEAD OF SURPRISE MAN". hdsports. 22 August 2022. Retrieved 10 August 2024.
- ↑ "Samuel Fitwi: Marathon in record time". lvrheinland. 26 September 2023. Retrieved 10 August 2024.
- ↑ "Results - Dubai Marathon 2024". Watch Athletics. 7 January 2024. Retrieved 10 August 2024.
- ↑ "Crippa and Riva land another Italian 1-2 in Roma 2024". European Athletics. 9 June 2024. Retrieved 10 August 2024.
- ↑ "The XXXIII Olympic Games". World Athletics. 10 August 2024. Retrieved 27 April 2026.
- ↑ "Maratón Valencia Trinidad Alfonso Zurich". World Athletics. 1 December 2024. Retrieved 27 April 2026.
- ↑ "Hannover Marathon". World Athletics. 6 April 2025. Retrieved 27 April 2026.
- ↑ Mills, Steven (26 Apr 2026). "Fitwi finishes second in the Hamburg Marathon in 2:04:45". European Athletics. Retrieved 27 April 2026.
