Track and field athlete Gezahegne Abera

Gezahegne Abera

Living place: Ethiopia

Birthday: 23-4-1978 (46 years old)

Population of the world 1978: 4.302 billions

Global rank: #96241

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Who is Track and field athlete Gezahegne Abera?
A gold medalist at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney for the marathon, he was the first person to achieve a double marathon World Olympic Championships.
His victory at the 2001 world championship was a second ahead of Simon Biwott Kenya.
 
 

Young / Before famous

He won the Fukuoka marathon in Japan three times, first in 1999, followed by 2001 and 2002.

Family life info

His wife, Elfenesh Alemu, is also an Olympic athlete, competing at the 2004 games.

Close relationship

Who is Boy (girl) friend/ wife (husband)/ darling Track and field athlete Gezahegne Abera?
He and fellow Ethiopian runner Haile Gebrselassie were among eight Medalists who made the Sydney 2000 Olympics one of the most successful screenings for their homeland.

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When was Track and field athlete Gezahegne Abera born?
Gezahegne Abera birthday 23-4-1978 (at the age of 46).
Where is Track and field athlete Gezahegne Abera's birth place, what is Zodiac/Chinese Zodiac?
Gezahegne Abera was born in . is a Track and field athlete, whose Zodiac is Taurus, and who Chinese Zodiac is The Horse. Gezahegne Abera's global rank is 96241 and whose rank is 292 in list of famous Track and field athlete. Population of the world in 1978 is about 4.302 billions persons.
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Events in 1978 and 23-4

Events in the world in the birth year of Gezahegne Abera

  • Rhodesia's Prime Minister Ian D. Smith and three black leaders agree on transfer to black majority rule (Feb. 15).
  • US Senate approves Panama Canal neutrality treaty (March 16); votes treaty to turn canal over to Panama by year 2000 (April 18).
  • Former Italian Premier Aldo Moro kidnapped by left wing terrorists, who kill five bodyguards (March 16); he is found slain (May 9).
  • Pope Paul VI , dead at 80, mourned (Aug. 6); new Pope, John Paul I, 65, dies unexpectedly after 34 days in office (Sept. 28); succeeded by Karol Cardinal Wojtyla of Poland as John Paul II (Oct. 16).
  • "Framework for Peace" in Middle East signed by Egypt's President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Premier Menachem Begin after 13-day conference at Camp David led by President Jimmy Carter (Sept. 17).
  • Jim Jones's followers commit mass suicide in Jonestown, Guyana (Nov. 18).

Birthday Gezahegne Abera (23-4) in history

  • Day 23-4 year 1616: Great Britain's playwright William Shakespeare passed away aged 52 in Stratford-on-Avon, England.
  • Day 23-4 year 1954: Hank Aaron hit the first of his 755 home runs.
  • Day 23-4 year 1969: Sirhan Sirhan was sentenced to death (later reduced to a life sentence) for the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy.
  • Day 23-4 year 1985: Coca-Cola announced that it was changing its formula and introduced New Coke.
  • Day 23-4 year 1998: James Earl Ray, convicted of assassinating Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., died.
  • Day 23-4 year 2004: The U.S. resumed diplomatic relations with Libya.
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