Tsige Duguma | |
Full Name: | Tsige Duguma |
Nationality: | Ethiopian |
Sport: | Athletics |
Event: | 400 metres, 800 metres |
Birth Date: | 23 February 2001 |
Birth Place: | Kamashi, Benishangul-Gumuz Region, Ethiopia |
Pb: | 400m: 54.43 (St Pierre, 2022) 800m: 1:57.15 (Paris, 2024) |
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Tsige Duguma (; born 23 February 2001) is an Ethiopian track and field athlete who won gold at the 2024 World Athletics Indoor Championships over 800 metres. She is also an Ethiopian national champion over 400 metres.[1]
She was a silver medalist over 200 metres at the 2017 African U20 Championships in Athletics in Algeria.[2]
In March 2022, she won the Ethiopian national indoor championships over 400 metres in Hawassa.[3]
In July 2023, she set a new personal best over 800 metres, breaking the 2-minute barrier for the first time as she record 1:59.40 in Belgium.[4]
In February 2024, she completed a front-running victory over 800 metres in Belgrade in a time of 1:59.66.[5]
She won gold at the 2024 World Athletics Indoor Championships in Glasgow in the women's 800 metres.[6] She had previously won her qualifying heat in a time of 2:00.50, and won her semi-final in a personal best time 1:58.35.[7] [8] She became Ethiopia's first women's world indoor champion in the discipline.[9]
In March 2024, she won gold in the 800 metres at the African Games.[10]
Tsige ran a personal best of 1:57.15 in the final of the 800 m at the Paris Olympics to place second and earn a silver medal behind winner Keely Hodgkinson.[11]