President Taye Congratulates Ethiopian Athletes for Winning World Athletics Awards 2024

Addis Ababa December 2/2024 (ENA) President Taye Atske Selassie has congratulated Ethiopian athletes Tamirat Tola and Sembo Alemayehu, for being winners of Male Out-of-Stadium Athlete of the Year and Women’s Rising Star award at the World Athletics Awards 2024 in Monaco.

“You have done it on the giant shoulders of our legends and your success is an inspiration to our future young athletes,” the President underscored.

Tamirat, who dominated the men’s marathon in Paris, has been named Male Out-of-Stadium Athlete of the Year at the World Athletics Awards 2024 in Monaco.

 

Similarly, athlete Sembo, who broke the record to win the women’s steeplechase champion at the World U20 title in Lima, won the Women’s Rising Star award, it was learned.