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| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Born | 9 January 1984 Assela, Arsi, Ethiopia |
| Sport | |
| Country |  Ethiopia |
Firehiwot Tufa Dado (born January 9, 1984 in Assela, Arsi) [1] is a female long-distance runner from Ethiopia, who won the New York City Marathon in 2011 with a personal best time of 2:23:15 hours. She also took three consecutive victories in the Rome City Marathon. [2]
She has also competed in 10K competitions and was the 2008 winner of the Casablanca Women's Run. [3] She made her marathon debut that year at the Košice Peace Marathon and managed to finish as runner-up on her first attempt. [4] She received a late-minute invitation to run the Rome City Marathon in March 2009 and went on to surprise the field by winning the race in a time of 2:27:08 hours – over ten minutes faster than her previous best. [5] Her second race over the distance that year came at the Frankfurt Marathon, where she again finished under two and a half hours to take fourth place. [6] Firehiwot won the Boulogne-Billancourt Half Marathon in November with a course record time of 1:09:26 – the first time a woman had run under an hour and ten minutes at the race. [7]
She fell back in the second half the 2010 Mumbai Marathon, eventually taking fifth place, [8] but returned to form at the Rome Marathon, where she defended her title in a best of 2:25:28 hours She set a previous personal best of 2:25:28 in the classic distance on March 21, 2010 in Rome, Italy. [9] The 2010 Fifth Third River Bank Run saw her break the course record for the 25K race, beating Joan Samuelson's time which had stood since 1986. [10] She won the Florence Marathon that year, beating second-placed Meseret Mengistu by almost two minutes. [11]
Firehiwot took an unprecedented third straight title in Rome in 2011 and knocked over a minute off her best in the process, completing the race in 2:24:13 hours. [12] She established herself among the world's foremost women marathon runners with a victory at the 2011 New York City Marathon, where she held off Buzunesh Deba and Mary Keitany to win in a time of 2:23:15 hours. [13] She opened her 2012 season with a course record win at the New York City Half Marathon, where she maintained a fast starting pace to hold off Kim Smith and set a new best of 1:08:35 hours. [14] The 2012 Boston Marathon was undertaken in warm conditions and she managed fourth place behind a Kenyan trio. [15] She won the 2014 Prague Marathon in a time of 2:23:34 as six Ethiopians finished in the top six in the women's competition. [16]
| Year | Competition | Venue | Position | Event | Notes |
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| Representing Ethiopia | |||||
| 2008 | Košice Peace Marathon | Košice, Slovakia | 2nd | Marathon | 2:37:34 |
| 2009 | Rome City Marathon | Rome, Italy | 1st | Marathon | 2:27:08 |
| Frankfurt Marathon | Frankfurt, Germany | 4th | Marathon | 2:29:20 | |
| 2010 | Mumbai Marathon | Mumbai, India | 5th | Marathon | 2:33:38 |
| Rome City Marathon | Rome, Italy | 1st | Marathon | 2:25:28 | |
| Florence Marathon | Florence, Italy | 1st | Marathon | 2:28:58 | |
| 2011 | Rome City Marathon | Rome, Italy | 1st | Marathon | 2:24:13 |
| New York City Marathon | New York City, USA | 1st | Marathon | 2:23:15 | |
| 2012 | New York City Half Marathon | New York, USA | 1st | Half Marathon | 1:08:35 |
| Boston Marathon | Massachusetts, USA | 4th | Marathon | 2:34:56 | |
| 2014 | Prague Marathon | Prague, Czech Republic | 1st | Marathon | 2:23:34 |
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