Feyisa Lilesa
Feyisa Lilesa is a male long-distance runner from Ethiopia.
Born into a farmer's family in the village of Tullu Bultuma, about 100 kilometers from Addis Ababa. While studying at school, he began doing gymnastics, but then switched to track and field athletics.
He became the youngest man to run under 2:06 when he ran 2:05:23 in the men's marathon at the 2010 Rotterdam Marathon. He set his personal best of 2:04:52 in the marathon when he came in second place at the 2012 Chicago Marathon.
He won the Dublin Marathon in 2009 in his debut race and then won the Xiamen International Marathon in 2010. He was the bronze medalist at the 13th IAAF World Championships in Athletics Daegu 2011 (2011) marathon and the silver medalist in the Rio 2016: Games of the XXXI Olympiad (2016) marathon. On the final day of the Rio 2016: Games of the XXXI Olympiad (2016) (21 August), as he was crossing the finish line of the Men's Marathon and winning his silver medal, he raised his arms in a gesture of solidarity with protesters against the killing of the Oromo people in his home country of Ethiopia.
Born into a farmer's family in the village of Tullu Bultuma, about 100 kilometers from Addis Ababa. While studying at school, he began doing gymnastics, but then switched to track and field athletics.
He became the youngest man to run under 2:06 when he ran 2:05:23 in the men's marathon at the 2010 Rotterdam Marathon. He set his personal best of 2:04:52 in the marathon when he came in second place at the 2012 Chicago Marathon.
He won the Dublin Marathon in 2009 in his debut race and then won the Xiamen International Marathon in 2010. He was the bronze medalist at the 13th IAAF World Championships in Athletics Daegu 2011 (2011) marathon and the silver medalist in the Rio 2016: Games of the XXXI Olympiad (2016) marathon. On the final day of the Rio 2016: Games of the XXXI Olympiad (2016) (21 August), as he was crossing the finish line of the Men's Marathon and winning his silver medal, he raised his arms in a gesture of solidarity with protesters against the killing of the Oromo people in his home country of Ethiopia.