Waynishet Girma

WAYNISHET GIRMA
ETHIOPIA

BIRTHDATE:
1 January 1986

PERSONAL BEST:
2:28:36 (Boston, 2010)

WORLD MARATHON MAJOR HIGHLIGHTS:

18Apr11 Boston Marathon 12th 2:28:48w
19Apr10 Boston Marathon 4th 2:28:36

ADDITIONAL CAREER HIGHLIGHTS:

22Jan10 Standard Chartered Dubai Marathon 9th 2:32:07
18Oct09 ING Amsterdam Marathon 2nd 2:29:50
27Apr09 St. Anthony Padova Marathon 1st 2:31:03
20Apr08 Alexander The Great Marathon 3rd 2:50:06
10Jun07 Addis Ababa Marathon 4th 2:45:03
16Mar07 City of Rome Marathon 10th 2:43:11
24Sep06 Turin Marathon 3rd 2:38:30
03Jun06 Stockholm Marathon 5th 2:46:50
12Mar06 Treviso Marathon 4th 2:35:48

CAREER NOTES:

As a 20-year-old, Waynishet Girma (Tola) got her shot at the marathon distance in 2006 by running three such races, and finished top five in all of them. In 2009 she ran her two fastest marathhons with a win in Padova (Padua) and a runner-up spot in Amsterdam. At Boston in 2010, her first World Marathon Major, she improved her personal best again, breaking 2:29 for the first time with a 2:28:36 fourth-place finish.