Career
Dibaba won the 5000 m and 10,000 m at the same Olympics in 2008, the first woman to do so, and retained the 10,000 m in London. Her finishing kick off a slow pace was effectively unanswerable for a decade.
🏃 Running · Distance
Tirunesh Dibaba
Ethiopia · 2001–2019
The Baby-Faced Destroyer — three Olympic golds on the track.
- 3
- Olympic golds
- 5
- World titles
- 5
- Olympic medals
- 5000/10,000 m
- Double in 2008
Honours
- Olympic 5000 m and 10,000 m double, 2008
- Retained the Olympic 10,000 m title in 2012
- Five World Championship titles
- Former world record holder over 5000 m
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