Abeba Aregawi, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Abeba Aregawi

Swedish track and field athlete

Date of Birth: 05-Jul-1990

Place of Birth: Adigrat, Tigray Region, Ethiopia

Profession: athletics competitor, middle-distance runner

Nationality: Sweden, Ethiopia

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

Abeba Aregawi Gebretsadik (Amharic:??? ???? ;born 5 July 1990) is an Ethiopian-born middle-distance runner from Tigray, who specialised in the 1500 metres.
Her personal best for the event is 3:56.54.
Aregawi is the 2013 world champion over 1500 metres.
She represented Sweden internationally.
However after failing a drugs test and being banned from the sport it emerged that she had never gained Swedish citizenship and had lied to the Swedish federation in order to compete for them. Abeba was born in Adigrat, Ethiopia, and holds both Swedish and Ethiopian citizenships.
She represented her birth country in middle-distance until December 2012.
Abeba was married to an Ethiopian man with Swedish citizenship and allegedly lived in Stockholm 2009-2012.
She is now remarried to Yemane Tsegay and lives in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. She represented the Stockholm-based club Hammarby IF to January 2016. She was naturalized as a Swedish citizen in the summer of 2012, and has represented Sweden in international competition since December 2012.