Personal information | |
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Full name | Tigist Girma Nuramo |
Nationality | Ethiopian |
Born | 12 July 1993 |
Sport | |
Sport | Track and Field |
Event | Marathon |
Achievements and titles | |
Personal best(s) | Marathon: 2:18.52 (Valencia, 2022) |
Tigist Girma Nuramo (born 12 July 1993) is an Ethiopian athlete specialising in the marathon. [1]
Girma was born near Sheshemane, in the south east of Ethiopia. She moved to Addis Ababa in 2015. [2]
She won the Beirut Marathon in 2016, [3] and finished second at the Lanzhou Marathon in China in 2017. [4] She won the 2018 Guangshou Marathon and the Ottawa Marathon in 2019. [5]
She ran a 2:19:52 personal best finishing second at the Amsterdam Marathon in 2019, over seven minutes better than her previous personal best. [6] She also finished in the top 10 at the 2020 Tokyo Marathon. [7] In December 2020 at the Valencia Marathon ran a time of 2:19:55. [8] She finished in the top ten at the 2021 London Marathon. [9]
On May 1, 2021, Girma won the Ethiopian Olympic Marathon Trials in Sebeta City. [10] [11] She was named in the Ethiopian squad for the games, [12] however she did not compete. [13]
In September 2022 she won the Sydney Marathon. [14] She ran a personal best time of 2:18:52 at the Valencia Marathon in 2022. [15]