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| Full name | Mizan Alem Adane | ||||||||||||||
| Nationality | Ethiopian | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 22 January 2002 | ||||||||||||||
| Sport | |||||||||||||||
| Country | Ethiopia | ||||||||||||||
| Sport | Athletics | ||||||||||||||
| Event | Long-distance running | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Mizan Alem (born 22 January 2002)[1] is an Ethiopian long-distance runner. She won the gold medal in the 5000 metres at the 2021 World Under-20 Championships.[2]
Alem gained her first international experience at age 17, in March 2019, finishing seventh in the under-20 women's race (5.856 km) at the World Cross Country Championships held in Aarhus, Denmark.[1]
In August 2021, she claimed the gold medal in the 5000 metres at the World U20 Championships in Nairobi, Kenya.[1]
The 21-year-old placed second in the 3000 metres standings of the 2023 World Athletics Indoor Tour, finishing also second behind only Gudaf Tsegay at the tour's Birmingham Final with a new personal best of 8:31.20.[3][4] In May that year, at a London meet called "The Night of the 10,000m PBs", Alem set a UK all-comers' record (best performance on country's soil) of 29:59.03 to win the women's race. She became the 12th woman in history to break the 30-minute barrier, moving up to 11th place on the world all-time list.[5][6]
