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Dire Tune

Ethiopian long-distance runner

Date of Birth: 19-Jun-1985

Profession: long-distance runner, athletics competitor, marathon runner

Nationality: Ethiopia

Zodiac Sign: Gemini


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About Dire Tune

  • Dire Tune Arissi (pronounced "Deer-ay Too-nay"; Ge'ez: ?? ??, born 19 June 1985) is an Ethiopian long-distance runner. Tune competed in the marathon at the 2005 World Championships.
  • At the 2006 World Road Running Championships she finished fourth in the individual competition.
  • This was good enough to help Ethiopia win a silver medal in the team competition. On April 21, 2008, Tune won the Boston Marathon with a time of 2:25:25.
  • She was then selected to represent her country in the marathon at the 2008 Summer Olympics, and was the only Ethiopian to finish, placing 15th in a time of 2:31:16.
  • In April 2009, Tune finished second by one second in the Boston Marathon with a time of 2:32:17.
  • After finishing the race, she collapsed and had to be taken to the hospital.
  • Her agent said the problem was due in part to dehydration combined with the cool weather and the fact that she trained for a shorter race. Dire Tune holds the One Hour running world record of 18.517 kilometres set June 12, 2008 in Ostrava.
  • The previous record (18,340 m) was set by Tegla Loroupe ten years earlier.Tune won the 2009 Ras Al Khaimah Half Marathon, setting the Ethiopian half marathon record of 1:07:18.
  • The previous national record (1:08:07) was set by Bezunesh Bekele in 2007 in Udine.She won the 2010 Ottawa 10K race in 32:11 in late May, becoming the first woman to finish ahead of the men's winner in the mixed gender race where the men's section begins four minutes after the women.
  • She ran at the Bogota Half Marathon in August and finished as runner-up, some six seconds behind winner Shewarge Amare.
  • The Frankfurt Marathon followed in November and she improve her personal best by almost a minute, running 2:23:44 for the runner-up spot behind Caroline Kilel.She started the 2011 season with a win at the Ethiopian 15K Championships, beating Atsede Habtamu at the line.
  • She ran at the Ras Al Khaimah Half Marathon a few days later and was the runner-up, albeit some minutes behind a world record-breaking Mary Keitany.
  • She came close to winning the World's Best 10K race in Puerto Rico two weeks later, but was edged into second by Sentayehu Ejigu.
  • She topped the podium at the World 10K Bangalore, pipping Merima Mohammed at the line.
  • She ran the marathon at the 2011 World Championships in Athletics in Daegu, South Korea.
  • Despite running the first 13 miles in the lead pack, she was disqualified after consuming a drink from an unknown person in the crowd, which is against IAAF rules.

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