Moges Taye
Template:Short description Moges Taye (born December 12, 1973, in Showa) is a long-distance runner from Ethiopia. His breakthrough performance came at the Rome City Marathon in 1996, which he won in a time of 2:12:03.[1] He represented Ethiopia in the marathon at the 1997 World Championships in Athletics, but failed to finish the race.
At the 1997 Istanbul Marathon he won in a course record time of 2:13:37 – a time which went unbettered for almost a decade. Further to this, Taye would go on to defend his title for the next two years becoming the only man to have won the race on three occasions.[2] In 1998 he won the Tiberias Marathon in a course record time of 2:12:51, beating Kevin Shaw's previous mark by more than a minute.[3] Later that year he won the 1998 edition of the Vienna Marathon.[4] He won the Venice Marathon in 2001. Making his second international road appearance, he ran at the 2003 World Championships in Athletics in the marathon but failed to finish the race. He won the 2004 edition of the Nagano Marathon in Japan.
Achievements
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| 1996 | Rome City Marathon | Rome, Italy | 1st | Marathon | 2:12:03 |
| 1997 | World Championships | Athens, Greece | — | Marathon | DNF |
| 1998 | Vienna Marathon | Vienna, Austria | 1st | Marathon | 2:10:08 |
| 2000 | Rome City Marathon | Rome, Italy | 4th | Marathon | 2:09:49 |
| 2001 | Venice Marathon | Venice, Italy | 1st | Marathon | 2:11:59 |
| 2003 | World Championships | Paris, France | — | Marathon | DNF |
| 2004 | Nagano Marathon | Nagano, Japan | 1st | Marathon | 2:13:09 |
References
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- ↑ Taye Moges Template:Webarchive. Demadonna. Retrieved on 2010-10-28.
- ↑ Istanbul Marathon winners. Marathon Info. Retrieved on 2010-10-28.
- ↑ Article: Ethiopia's Moges Taye sets new record in Tiberias Marathon . Jerusalem Post (1998-01-08). Retrieved on 2010-04-30.
- ↑ World Marathon Rankings for 1998. Association of Road Racing Statisticians. Retrieved on 2010-04-30.
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External links
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- Profile from MarathonFree
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