Gudaf Tsegay and Amane Beriso will return to defend their titles at the World Athletics Championships Tokyo 2025.
Tsegay, who ran the women’s 1500m and 5000m at the Paris 2024 Olympics, will revert to the track distance double in Tokyo as she did in Budapest, where she earned the 10,000m world title.
Beriso, the reigning women’s marathon gold medallist, will also seek to defend her title in Japan.
Former world record holder in the mile and half-marathon Yomif Kejelcha returns to the men’s 10,000m team, alongside Olympic 10,000m silver medallist Berihu Aregawi and Selemon Barega, the Olympic champion from the Tokyo 2020 Olympics in 2021.
Ethiopian Athletics also named a strong women’s 1500m line up that includes Diribe Welteji, the silver medallist in 2023, Birke Haylom, and Saron Berhe.
World steeplechase record holder Lamecha Girma, who is a triple silver medallist from the last three editions of the World Championships, also made the provisional team of 37 athletes.
AloJapan.com