{"id":85839,"date":"2018-02-20T03:44:04","date_gmt":"2018-02-20T08:44:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ethiopianreview.com\/index\/?guid=e57176aa26e99ce97c5fdac384ddc5ae"},"modified":"2019-02-05T02:40:15","modified_gmt":"2019-02-05T07:40:15","slug":"genzebe-dibaba-leads-ethiopian-team-for-birmingham-2018-march-1-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/85839","title":{"rendered":"Genzebe Dibaba leads Ethiopian team for Birmingham 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-86734\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ethiopianreview.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/as543.jpg?resize=476%2C600\" alt=\"\" width=\"476\" height=\"600\" \/>Ethiopia\u2019s Genzebe Dibaba will contest the 1500m and 3000m at the IAAF World Indoor Championships Birmingham 2018 on 1-4 March, in the U.K.<br \/>\nThe 27-year-old has earned three world indoor titles, winning the 1500m in 2012 and the 3000m in 2014 and 2016. A slightly more forgiving schedule for this year\u2019s edition \u2013 with the 3000m held as a straight final on Thursday night, followed by the 1500m heats on Friday and the 1500m final on Saturday \u2013 means Dibaba will double up for the first time at a World Indoor Championships.<br \/>\nFellow defending 3000m champion Yomif Kejelcha has also been named on the team and will be joined by world indoor leader Selemon Barega.<br \/>\nEthiopia has named three athletes in several events. Pending the conclusion of the IAAF World Indoor Tour, some may be eligible to compete as a wild card entrant or may simply be entered as a reserve.<br \/>\nETHIOPIAN TEAM FOR BIRMINGHAM<br \/>\nMen<br \/>\n800m: Mohammed Aman<br \/>\n1500m: Samuel Tefera, Taresa Tolosa, Aman Wote<br \/>\n3000m: Selemon Barega, Hagos Gebrhiwet, Yomif Kejelcha<br \/>\nWomen<br \/>\n800m: Habitam Alemu<br \/>\n1500m: Genzebe Dibaba, Dawit Seyaum, Gudaf Tsegay<br \/>\n3000m: Genzebe Dibaba, Dawit Seyaum, Fantu Worku<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ethiopia\u2019s Genzebe Dibaba will contest the 1500m and 3000m at the IAAF World Indoor Championships Birmingham 2018 on 1-4 March, in the U.K. The 27-year-old has earned three world indoor titles, winning the 1500m in 2012 and the 3000m in 2014 and 2016. A slightly more forgiving schedule for this year\u2019s edition \u2013 with the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ethiopian-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-mkv","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85839"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85839\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":264005,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85839\/revisions\/264005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}