Tigist Girma

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Tigist Girma
Personal information
Full nameTigist Girma Nuramo
NationalityEthiopian
Born (1993-07-12) 12 July 1993 (age 31)
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]

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Early life

Girma was born near Sheshemane, in the south east of Ethiopia. She moved to Addis Ababa in 2015. [2]

Career

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 won 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]

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