 Teferi at the 2015 Berlin Marathon | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Native name | Teferi Marhu | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Citizenship | Israeli | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | August 17, 1992 Ethiopia | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.64 m (5 ft 5 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 52 kg (115 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Country | Israel | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Running | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Event(s) | Half marathon, Marathon | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Team | NN Running Team | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Marhu Teferi (or Teferi Marhu,[1] Hebrew: מארו טפרי; born August 17, 1992) is an Ethiopian-born Israeli marathon and half marathon runner, silver medalist in marathon at the 2023 World Athletics Championships in Budapest and silver medalist in marathon at the 2022 European Athletics Championships in Munich. He represented Israel at the 2016 Summer Olympics in the Marathon. He also represented Israel at the 2020 Summer Olympics. He has set Israeli records in both the marathon and half marathon.
Marhu Teferi was born in Ethiopia to a family of Ethiopian-Jewish background, and immigrated to Israel at the age of 14 along with most of his family.[2] While studying at the Ben Shemen Youth Village, he started training for long distance runs.[3]
His wife Selamawit Dagnachew is Ethiopian-born but an Israeli citizen on account of their marriage; she is a mid- and long-distance runner who has also qualified to compete for Israel at the 2020 Summer Olympics.[4]
Teferi is an Israeli half marathon champion, having won the title in December 2015, ahead of Berihun We've and Israeli Olympian Ageze Guadie.[5][6]
Due to his 2:18.19 finish in the Rotterdam Marathon in April 2016, in which he came in 23rd, he qualified for the 2016 Olympics.[7][8]
He competed for Israel at the 2016 Summer Olympics in the marathon, and finished 74th out of 155 runners, with a time of 2:21:06.[9]
In January 2018, Teferi finished in second place (2:18.35) at the Tiberias Marathon.[10] In August 2018, he ran a 2:13:00 and broke the Israeli marathon record (set in 2003 by Ayele Seteng), while coming in seventh in the 2018 European Athletics Championships in Berlin, Germany.[2]
In February 2019 he ran the Seville Marathon in 2:10:11 in Seville, Spain.[11] In April 2019 Teferi set a new Israeli half-marathon record at 1:02:05, winning a race in Berlin.[12]
On 27 October 2019, Teferi ran the Frankfurt Marathon in 2:08:09 in Frankfurt, Germany, setting a new Israeli record and finishing in 6th place.
Teferi represented Israel at the 2020 Olympics, where he finished 13th, the best ever finish for an Israeli marathoner at the Olympics.[13]
In August 2022, at the European Championships in Munich, Teferi won the silver medal for Israel in the individual marathon competition.[14]
In August 2023, at the 2023 World Athletics Championships, he won the silver medal in the Men's Marathon. [15]
