Track and field athlete Miruts Yifter

Miruts Yifter

Living place: Ethiopia

Birthday: 15-5-1944 (80 years old)

Global rank: #71936

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Who is Track and field athlete Miruts Yifter?
Long-distance runner-up for winning two gold medals at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow and a bronze at 1,972 games in Munich.
His Olympic Ascension was interrupted in 1976 when Ethiopia boycotted the games being played in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
 
 

Young / Before famous

He took home the gold medal at the 1973 All-Africa Olympics, winning the 10,000 meter race; He also won two gold medals at the 1979 African Championships 1.

Family life info

He was born into a blue-collar family and worked multiple factory jobs as a young man and was also a transport driver; He eventually joined the Ethiopian Air Force.

Close relationship

Who is Boy (girl) friend/ wife (husband)/ darling Track and field athlete Miruts Yifter?
He was overtaken by Lasse Viren of Finland, who won gold in the 10,000 meters at the 1972 Munich game.

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When was Track and field athlete Miruts Yifter born?
Miruts Yifter birthday 15-5-1944 (at the age of 80).
Where is Track and field athlete Miruts Yifter's birth place, what is Zodiac/Chinese Zodiac?
Miruts Yifter was born in . is a Track and field athlete, whose Zodiac is Taurus, and who Chinese Zodiac is The Monkey. Miruts Yifter's global rank is 71936 and whose rank is 182 in list of famous Track and field athlete.
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Events in 1944 and 15-5

Events in the world in the birth year of Miruts Yifter

  • Allies invade Normandy on D-Day (June 6). Background: Normandy campaign
  • Bretton Woods Conference creates International Monetary Fund and World Bank.
  • Dumbarton Oaks Conference—U.S., British Commonwealth, and U.S.S.R. propose establishment of United Nations.
  • Battle of the Bulge begins as Germans penetrate Allied front in Belgium (Dec. 16 to Jan. 1945).
  • Anne Frank and her family betrayed and sent to concentration camps. She will die in 1945.

Birthday Miruts Yifter (15-5) in history

  • Day 15-5 year 1862: The U.S. Department of Agriculture was created by an act of Congress on this day.
  • Day 15-5 year 1911: The Standard Oil Company, headed by John D. Rockefeller, was ordered dissolved by the Supreme Court, under the Sherman Antitrust Act.
  • Day 15-5 year 1918: The first air mail route in the U.S. was established between New York and Washington, DC, with a stop at Philadelphia.
  • Day 15-5 year 1930: On a Boeing Air Transport flight between Oakland and Chicago, Ellen Church became the first airline stewardess.
  • Day 15-5 year 1940: Nylon stockings went on sale for the first time in the United States.
  • Day 15-5 year 1972: Alabama Governor George Wallace was shot and crippled as he campaigned for the presidency.
  • Day 15-5 year 1988: The Soviet Union began to withdraw its estimated 115,000 troops from Afghanistan.
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