🇪🇹 MESERET BELETE DESTROYS AMSTERDAM COURSE! 2:18:19 PB & ETHIOPIAN DOMINANCE!🔥ጀግኒት በድንገት ዙሩን አከረረችው

#athletics #running #marathon 🇪🇹 MESERET BELETE SMASHES PB! 2:18:19 WIN at Amsterdam Marathon! Ethiopian 1-2 Finish! 🔥 Ethiopia's Meseret Belete delivered a PERFORMANCE FOR THE AGES at the TCS Amsterdam Marathon! She smashed her personal best by nearly THREE MINUTES to win in 2:18:19, leading an Ethiopian 1-2 finish! 💨 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🏆 WOMEN'S RACE – FULL RESULTS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🥇 MESERET BELETE (ETHIOPIA) – 2:18:19 (PERSONAL BEST!) 🥈 MESERET ABEBAYEHU (ETHIOPIA) – 2:19:50 (PERSONAL BEST!) 🥉 DORCAS TUITOEK (KENYA) – 2:20:02 4️⃣ ASHETE BEKERE (ETHIOPIA) – 2:21:51 5️⃣ TIRUYE MESFIN (ETHIOPIA) – 2:22:07 6️⃣ ANCHALEM HAYMANOT (ETHIOPIA) – 2:22:23 7️⃣ MESERET GOLA (ETHIOPIA) – 2:22:29 8️⃣ SOFIA ASSEFA (ETHIOPIA) – 2:23:23 9️⃣ MARION KIBOR (KENYA) – 2:24:26 🔟 ANNE LUIJTEN (NETHERLANDS) – 2:26:36 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔥 ETHIOPIAN DOMINATION IN AMSTERDAM! ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✅ Meseret Belete WINS in 2:18:19 – NEARLY 3-MINUTE PERSONAL BEST! ✅ ETHIOPIAN 1-2 FINISH – Belete & Abebayehu! ✅ 7 ETHIOPIANS IN THE TOP 10! ✅ 89-SECOND MARGIN OF VICTORY! ✅ THIRD-FASTEST WINNING TIME IN AMSTERDAM HISTORY! ✅ Abebayehu ALSO SMASHED HER PB BY NEARLY 5 MINUTES! ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 💥 THE RACE – HOW SHE WON ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ A large lead pack passed 5km in 16:27 and 10km in 32:45. About nine runners were still in contention at halfway (1:09:05). By 30km (1:38:08), only four women remained: Belete, Abebayehu, Tuitoek and Bekere. They ran together for another 10 minutes, then Belete started to forge a lead. She didn't have to increase her pace; she simply maintained it while her rivals drifted off it. Belete entered the Olympic Stadium with a comfortable lead and crossed the line in 2:18:19, winning by 89 seconds! 💨 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌟 MESERET BELETE – THE CHAMPION ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🏅 24 years old (Born 16 September 1999) 🏅 2023 Amsterdam Marathon Champion – 2:18:19 (PB!) 🏅 2023 Doha Marathon Champion – 2:20:46 🏅 2023 Xiamen Marathon Champion – 2:24:42 🏅 Personal Best: 2:18:19 Belete's victory was her SECOND major marathon win of 2023, following her triumph in Doha in January. She smashed her personal best by nearly three minutes and established herself as one of Ethiopia's premier marathon runners! ⭐ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌟 MESERET ABEBAYEHU – THE RUNNER-UP ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🏅 25 years old (Born 28 June 1998) 🏅 2023 Amsterdam Marathon Runner-Up – 2:19:50 (PB!) 🏅 2022 Yellow River Estuary Marathon Champion – 2:27:53 🏅 2023 Xiamen Marathon Champion – 2:24:42 Abebayehu smashed her personal best by nearly FIVE MINUTES, breaking the 2:20 barrier for the first time! 💪 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🇪🇹 THE ETHIOPIAN CONTINGENT ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 4️⃣ Ashete Bekere – 2:21:51 5️⃣ Tiruye Mesfin – 2:22:07 6️⃣ Anchalem Haymanot – 2:22:23 7️⃣ Meseret Gola – 2:22:29 8️⃣ Sofia Assefa – 2:23:23 7 Ethiopians in the Top 10! 🇪🇹 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌟 SOFIA ASSEFA – THE OLYMPIC MEDALLIST'S MARATHON DEBUT ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🏅 Olympic Silver Medallist – 3000m Steeplechase (London 2012) 🏅 World Championships Bronze Medallist 🏅 8th Place – Amsterdam Marathon 2023 (DEBUT!) – 2:23:23 The 35-year-old made a stunning marathon debut, finishing 8th in a highly competitive field! ⭐ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔴 SUBSCRIBE TO ETHIO ATHLETICS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 👉 LIKE if you're proud of Ethiopian excellence! 🔔 SUBSCRIBE for more Ethiopian athletics coverage! 💬 COMMENT: Who impressed you more – Belete or Abebayehu? 🔁 SHARE this video to celebrate Ethiopian domination! #AmsterdamMarathon #MeseretBelete #Ethiopia #Marathon #Running #EthiopianAthletics #Amsterdam2023 #MeseretAbebayehu #AsheteBekere #SofiaAssefa #DistanceRunning #AfricanRunning #EthiopianPride #CourseRecord #AmsterdamMarathon #MeseretBelete #Ethiopia #Marathon #Running #EthiopianAthletics #Amsterdam2023 #MeseretAbebayehu #AsheteBekere #SofiaAssefa #DistanceRunning #AfricanRunning #EthiopianPride #CourseRecord #WomenRunning #EthiopianSweep #personalbest #Ethiopia #EthiopianAthletics #ShegaSport #EthioAthletics #AddisAbaba #EastAfricanRunning #AfricanRunning #DistanceRunning #EthiopianPride #MeseretBeleteFan #Amsterdam2023 #MarathonChampion #EthiopianSweep #PBSmash