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Nationality | Ethiopian | ||||||||||||||||
Born | 12 February 1992 | ||||||||||||||||
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Country | Ethiopia | ||||||||||||||||
Sport | Athletics | ||||||||||||||||
Event(s) | Long-distance running | ||||||||||||||||
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Mosinet Geremew (born 12 February 1992) is an Ethiopian middle-distance and long-distance runner. [1]
Mosinet's career started in cross country running. He ran in the junior category at the 2010 IAAF World Cross Country Championships and placed 16th overall – he was not a point-scoring runner for the Ethiopian team. He returned to the same venue (Bydgoszcz) as a senior competitor at the 2013 IAAF World Cross Country Championships, though his 24th-place finish again left him out of the team point scoring. [1] In 2012 he won the 10k Paderborner Osterlauf in Germany in 27:53 min.
He became the first person to win twice at the Yangzhou Jianzhen International Half Marathon, winning four times in a row, including a course record of 59:52 minutes – the fastest achieved in a Chinese race. [2] [3] In 2015 he was the winner of the Ras Al Khaimah Half Marathon.
On 15 May 2016 he won the Bangalore 10k in a time of 28:36, after his victory the previous year. [4] At the 2018 edition of the run, he placed third in a time of 28:39 after fellow countrymen BIrhanu Legese with 28:38 and the winner Geoffrey Kamworor (Kenya) in 28:18. [5]
He achieved bigger popularity in 2018 by winning the Dubai Marathon in a course record time of 2:04:00 (with seven runners below 2:05) as well as a second place in the Chicago Marathon. [6]
At the 2019 London Marathon, he finished in second place behind Eliud Kipchoge with a time of 2:02:55, the third-fastest time in history. [7]
On 17 July 2022, Mosinet won his second World Championship Silver Medal in the 2022 World Athletics Championships – Men's marathon, finishing behind Tamirat Tola in a time of 2:06:44.
Year | Competition | Venue | Position | Event | Notes |
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2010 | World Cross Country Championships | Bydgoszcz, Poland | 16th | Junior race | 23:00 |
2013 | World Cross Country Championships | Bydgoszcz, Poland | 24th | Senior race | 34:09 |
2015 | World Championships | Beijing, China | 11th | 10,000 m | 28:07.50 |
2018 | Chicago Marathon | Chicago, USA | 2nd | Marathon | 2:05:24 |
2019 | London Marathon | London, United Kingdom | 2nd | Marathon | 2:02:55 [8] |
World Championships | Doha, Qatar | 2nd | Marathon | 2:10:44 | |
2022 | World Championships | Eugene, United States | 2nd | Marathon | 2:06:44 |
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5,000m | 13:17.41 | 2012 | Shanghai |
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10,000m | 27:18.86 | 2015 | Hengelo |
Half Marathon | 59:11 | 2014 | New Delhi |
Marathon | 2:02:55 | 2019 | London |