Personal information | |
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Nationality | Ethiopian |
Born | 24 November 2005 |
Sport | |
Sport | Athletics |
Event(s) | Middle-distance running, Long-distance running |
Achievements and titles | |
Personal bests | 1500m:3:36.60 (Rabat, 2024) 3000m: 7:31.78 (Metz, 2025) 5000m: 12:50.69 (Keqiao, 2025) 5km road 12:38 (Al Khobar, 2024) AU20R 10km road: 26:58 (Castellón, 2025) |
Kuma Girma (born 24 November 2005) is an Ethiopian middle- and long-distance runner. He is the African under-20 record holder over 5km on the road. [1]
He was a member of the silver medal-winning Ethiopian team at the 2023 World Cross Country Championships U20 race, finishing 13th individually. [2] He followed that up by placing third in Jakob Ingebrigtsen's two-mile world record race at the 2023 Meeting de Paris in a time of 8:10.34. [3] He set a 5000 m personal best of 13:03.37 at the 2023 Athletissima in Switzerland, to finish seventh overall . [4]
In March 2024, he finished fourth at the delayed 2023 African Games in Accra, Ghana. [5] In November 2024, he was runner-up to Jimmy Gressier at the Cross International d'Allonnes in France. [6] In December 2024, he was runner-up to Hagos Gebrhiwet in the 5km race at the Al Sharqiyah International, a World Athletics Elite Label event, in Al Khobar, Saudi Arabia. The time set a new African under-20 record. [7]
On 8 February 2025, Girma won the men's 3000m in 7:31.78 at the Meeting Metz Moselle Athlelor – a World Indoor Tour Silver meeting in Metz, France. [8] He finished runner-up over 5000 metres at the 2025 Shanghai Diamond League event, in a personal best time of 12:50.69, finishing narrowly behind the event winner Berihu Aregawi (12:50.45). [9] [10]
He is the younger brother of fellow runner Lamecha Girma. [11]