Mesefin Adimasu
ETHIOPIA
BIRTHDATE:
March 5, 1985
PERSONAL BEST:
2:09:49 (Berlin, 2007)
WORLD MARATHON MAJOR HIGHLIGHTS:
28Sep08 real,-Berlin Marathon 5th 2:12:02
30Sep07 real,-Berlin Marathon 5th 2:09:49
ADDITIONAL CAREER HIGHLIGHTS:
27Apr08 Conergy Marathon Hamburg 7th 2:10:23
15Apr07 Paris International Marathon 19th 2:19:41
09Apr06 Rotterdam Marathon 9th 2:10:45
CAREER NOTES:
Mesfin Adimasu scored his first World Marathon Majors points with a fifth place finish at Berlin in September 2007. He knocked almost a full minute off his marathon debut time at Rotterdam in April 2006. In between he also ran 2:19 at Paris in the spring of 2007.
Adimasu ran his second marathon on German soil at Hamburg this past April and again ran 2:10. Retuning to Berlin, he replicated his fifth place position of the year, edging out Joseph Ngolepus by five seconds.
He has a personal best of 1:06:04 for the half-marathon and 1:00:42 for 20 kilometres.
