Tiki Gelana

Quick Facts

Full Name	Tiki Gelana
Occupation	Marathon Runner
Date Of Birth	Oct 22, 1987(1987-10-22)
Age	37
Birthplace	Jijiga
Country	Ethiopia
Birth City	Somali Region
Horoscope	Libra

Tiki Gelana Biography

Tiki Gelana is one of the most popular and richest Marathon Runner who was born on October 22, 1987 in Jijiga, Somali Region, Ethiopia. Erba Tiki Gelana (Amharic the Amharic word for ‘warebaa tiki Galaana born 22nd October, 1987) is an Ethiopian long-distance runner who participates in marathon events. She has a personal-best time of 2:18.58 was the Ethiopian record-holder for the event from 2012 to 2017. She won the 2011 Amsterdam Marathon and the 2012 Rotterdam Marathon. She took home her gold medal in the 2012 London Olympics with the time of 2:23:07 which is an all-time Olympic record.

The Ethiopian record was broken. Ethiopian record in the 2012 Rotterdam Marathon, completing a solo run of 2:18.58 hours to win the race five minutes faster than runner-up Valeria Straneo. It made her the fourth fastest woman in the distance. She was chosen as the representative of Ethiopia at the Olympic marathon due to this. The London 2012 Olympics she was awarded the gold medal in the marathon, running an Olympic record time of 2:23.07 hours despite rain all through the race, and a crash on the way to the water stations. Following the Olympics she set an individual best in the half marathon, clocking 1:07:48 as third at the Great North Run, then she ran a best 15 km of 48:09 mins at the Zevenheuvelenloop (finishing just behind Olympic 10,000 meters champion Tirunesh Dibaba in both events). She was selected for the AIMS World Athlete of the Year Award for her performance the previous year.

Competing in the 2013 London Marathon, Gelana was knocked to the ground in a collision with wheelchair racer Josh Cassidy at the 15 km feeding station. Although able to resume, she dropped off the lead pace in the second half of the race and finished in 16th place in a time of 2:36:55 hours. The incident prompted London Marathon organisers to alter starting arrangements for the 2014 edition to allow wheelchair athletes to start ahead of the women’s race.

In her first outing of 2013 she held off Kim Smith to defend her Marugame Half Marathon title.

It was the year 2011’s Amsterdam Marathon marked a breakthrough for Tiki when she took the race with a time of 2:22:08 hours , which is nearly eight minutes quicker than her previous record and a significant improvement over Gete’s record-breaking nine-year-old time. The end of the year, she returned Ethiopia in 2012, where she was second in the Great Ethiopian Run and third at the Ethiopian Clubs Cross Country Championships. She improved her personal record in the Kagawa Marugame Half Marathon in February 2012, and went on to finish the race in 1:08:48 hours.

Tiki Gelana Net Worth

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

A relative of the 2000 Olympic marathon winner Gezahegne Abera Tiki was raised in Bekoji which is a city renowned for its top-quality runners. Tiki began running at road race events in Ethiopia and was fourth in the 2004 Great Ethiopian Run. She then traveled to Catalonia in Spain in 2006 to make her debut in the half marathon distance. She also took winning at Mataro as well as Terrassa. She was the winner of in the San Silvestre Barcelonesa 10K race at the close in the calendar year. She traveled in Japan in 2007 and took home the 10K race at the Sanyo Road Race – her time of 31:54 was the third fastest Ethiopian in the year. She took home in the 2008 Women First 5K in Addis Ababa in March. Then she was fourth in the high-profile World 10K Bangalore in May. She made her debut at the European track and field circuit in the summer of 2008 and ran a 5000m top time times of 15:17.74 minutes in the Internationales Stadionfest and a 10,000 metres record at 31:27.80 minutes on Ostrava Golden Spike. Ostrava Golden Spike.

In the latter half of 2008, she came in sixth place in the Delhi Half Marathon with a time of 1:10:22, however she was two mins slower in the 2009 RAK Half Marathon, finishing 16th. But she managed to take second place in the race behind Abebu Gelan at the Virginia Beach Half Marathon in her American debut. Her first marathon appearance was in October with the Dublin Marathon and in a close race, she finished in third on the podium. As of 2010, she placed fourth in each of at the Los Angeles Marathon and the Dublin Marathon, although she increased her best time to 229:53 hours.

Gelana was selected for the Ethiopian team to contest the marathon at the 2013 world championships in Moscow, but dropped out of the race held in hot and humid conditions after just 5 km. Her early withdrawal, together with that of teammate Meseret Hailu, prompted the Ethiopian Athletics Federation to ask the pair to submit written explanations for their actions.

Height, Weight & Body Measurements

Tiki Gelana height 5 ft 5 im Tiki weight 48 kg & body measurements will update soon.

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Facts & Trivia

Tiki Ranked on the list of most popular Marathon Runner. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Ethiopia. Tiki Gelana celebrates birthday on October 22 of every year.