Eshetu Tura
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Eshetu Tura (Template:Langx; (born January 19, 1950) is a retired long-distance runner from Ethiopia. He won a bronze medal in 3,000 metres steeplechase at the 1980 Summer Olympics.
Career
Tura won the silver medal behind Kip Rono at the first African Championships in 1979. In the 1982 edition, he won the steeplechase competition as well as a silver in 5000 metres.[1]
Tura is currently working as a steeplechase coach for the Ethiopian national athletics team,[2] where he also served as a coach for the late Somalian middle-distance athlete Samia Yusuf Omar.[3]
Achievements
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| 1979 | African Championships | Dakar, Senegal | 2nd | 3000 m steeple | 8:31.4 |
| 1982 | African Championships | Cairo, Egypt | 2nd | 5000 m | 13:50.33 |
| 1st | 3000 m steeple | 8:30.47 | |||
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References
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External links
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- 1950 births
- Living people
- Ethiopian male long-distance runners
- Ethiopian male steeplechase runners
- Olympic athletes for Ethiopia
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1980 Summer Olympics
- Olympic bronze medalists for Ethiopia
- Ethiopian athletics coaches
- World Athletics Championships athletes for Ethiopia
- Medalists at the 1980 Summer Olympics
- Olympic bronze medalists in athletics (track and field)
- 20th-century Ethiopian sportsmen
- 21st-century Ethiopian people
- Competitors at the 1984 Friendship Games