Ethiopia’s world 5,000m champion Almaz Ayana has won her first career 10,000-meter race in Hengelo, Netherlands during Ethiopia’s Olympic trials.<\/p>\n
Ayana made history on Wednesday with her 30:07:00 win, which is reportedly the fastest 10,000m debut performance time. Her finish time makes Ayana the 8th fastest woman in history, LetsRun<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n The 24-year-old reportedly dominated the race which she ran with double Olympic champion Tirunesh Dibaba and world silver medallist Gelete Burka.<\/p>\n Burka came second with a time of 30:28.47, while Dibaba, who had never lost a 10,000-meter race, took the third spot with a time of 30:28.53. Before the contest, Dibaba had won all eleven 10,000 meter races that she had competed in. She has won five world championships in her career.<\/p>\n Despite Dibaba’s defeat, the Olympic trial was impressive for Ethiopia as it showcased the country’s preparedness for the 10,000 meters race in Rio.<\/p>\n The trial race was also historic since it was the first time that nine women from the same country had finished a 10,000m race in under 30 minutes, IAAF<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n World cross-country bronze medalist Netsanet Gudeta came fourth with a time of 30:36.75, while Genet Ayalew came in fifth place with a time of 30:37.38. Another 10,000m debutante, World 5000m silver medallist Senbere Tefer, came sixth with a time of 30:40.59.<\/p>\n Ayana is now the favorite to win the 10,000m gold in the upcoming Olympic games after her impressive debut.<\/p>\n [Photo: Giulio Gigante\/Flickr]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Ethiopia’s world 5,000m champion Almaz Ayana has won her first career 10,000-meter race in Hengelo, Netherlands during Ethiopia’s Olympic trials. Ayana made history on Wednesday with her 30:07:00 win, which is reportedly the fastest 10,000m debut performance time. Her finish…<\/span> Read more ›<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":10486,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[44,46,1],"tags":[4871,4873,4809,4869,4872,4870,2519],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Ethiopia.Olympic.Trial-Almaz.Ayana_.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10485"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10485"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10489,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10485\/revisions\/10489"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}