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Athlete Gotytom Gebreslase won the women’s marathon at the 18th Athletics Championship.

By Addis Insight July 18, 2022

Ethiopia won another gold medal at the 18th World Athletics Championships being held in Oregon.

In the women’s marathon held in the afternoon, athlete Gotytom Gebreslase won the race.

She won the race in 2 hours, 18 seconds and 11 microseconds.

Ethiopia won the 3rd gold medal in the championship.

Gotytom Gebreslase (born 15 January 1995) is an Ethiopian long-distance runner. She won the women’s race at the 2021 Berlin Marathon in Berlin, Germany.[1][2][3] This was also her marathon debut and was the eighth fastest women’s time in the history of the race.[4][5][6] Gebreslase ran the 2022 Tokyo Marathon and finished third in a time of 2:18:18.[7]

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