Bizunesh Deba

Quick Facts

Full Name	Bizunesh Deba
Occupation	Marathon Runner
Date Of Birth	Sep 8, 1987(1987-09-08)
Age	37
Country	Ethiopia
Horoscope	Virgo

Bizunesh Deba Biography

Bizunesh Deba is one of the most popular and richest Marathon Runner who was born on September 8, 1987 in Ethiopia. Bizunesh Deba (born 8 September 1987) is also called Buzunesh Deba, is a Bronx-based Ethiopian long- distance runner from Bronx, a city in the United States. Her personal best in the marathon is 219:59, which was set at her participation in the Boston Marathon in 2014.

In 2010, she ran the personal best of 1:12.00 hours to take the title at the Naples Half Marathon and a victory in the National Marathon to Fight Breast Cancer in Jacksonville Beach followed soon after. She increased her streak of seven consecutive wins , winning the titles for women during the Broad Street Run, Newport 10000, UAE Healthy Kidney 10K, Grandma’s Marathon (with an personal best of 2:31:35) as well as the Fairfield Half Marathon. She placed tenth in the Peachtree Road Race on July 4 but then returned to winning ways in the Buffalo 4-Miler and the Chris Thater’s Memorial 5K. Deba was able to secure her third win in the marathon this year in the Twin Cities Marathon in Minneapolis in October. She ran her personal best of 227:23 hours and beating second place Svetlana Ponomarenko by eight minutes. Deba ran her first major race in the 2010 New York City Marathon and was tenth in the race, but her time of 229:55 hours was her second attempt to run under the 2:30-minute mark. Similar to the previous year she concluded her season with the California Marathon and she retained the title, increasing her total for the year to four marathon victories in five races.

She was set to compete at the 2012 Boston Marathon but was a late withdrawal due to a foot injury. She returned to competition in 2013 at the Houston Marathon and her run of 2:24:26 hours was enough for second place behind Merima Mohammed. 2013?

On November 2, 2014, she placed 9th among the women’s field in the TCS New York City Marathon with a time of 2:31:40.

A regular runner since 2009, she has been a winner of the California International Marathon, San Diego Marathon, Los Angeles Marathon, Grandma’s Marathon, Boston Marathon, and Twin Cities Marathon. She has placed within the top ten three times in the New York City Marathon.

Bizunesh Deba Net Worth

Bizunesh Deba is one of the richest Marathon Runner from Ethiopia. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Bizunesh Deba 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Her first appearance on the international stage for Ethiopia was in the long race of the 2003 IAAF World Cross Country Championships and she placed 33rd overall. She ran on the tracks at Japan in 2004, achieving an impressive 15:52.33 minutes over the 5000m race however it took another five years before she could establish herself as a road-running specialist.

Based in The Bronx, New York together with fellow marathon runner her husband Worku Beyi. Beyi started to run road races across the United States in 2009. She took home the Fairfield Half Marathon in June and in July , she finished second in the women’s division in the Buffalo 4 Mile Race. in September she took the Charleston Distance Classic 15-miler and she made her debut in the course of a marathon, winning in her first attempt at the Quad Cities Marathon, with an estimated time of 2:44.22 hours. The following month, she competed in the New York City Marathon and was seventh in the race, which significantly improved her time to 2:35:54 hours. A shrewd choice for a runner of elite level she completed her third marathon within the span of three months in the California International Marathon and she was the winner with a time of 2 minutes and 17 hours.

At the beginning of 2011, Deba defeated pre-race favourite Mare Dibaba to win the Los Angeles Marathon. She took a second straight victory at the Newport 10000 and then repeated that feat at the Healthy Kidney 10K in New York. She started the San Diego Marathon with a quick pace and reached the halfway marker in 1:09:53 hours. Her second half was not as fast but she still won the race in a new personal best of 2:23:31 hours – a time that also beat Joan Benoit’s record for the fastest marathon in California, set at the 1984 Olympic marathon more than 26 years earlier. Deba had also surpassed the best time set by her husband, who remarked: “I will try harder to get the record back. I will not sleep anymore”. Two months later she came third at the Beach to Beacon 10K. She placed second at the 2011 New York City Marathon with her new personal best, 2:23:19 hours.

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Bizunesh Ranked on the list of most popular Marathon Runner. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Ethiopia. Bizunesh Deba celebrates birthday on September 8 of every year.