Samuel Fitwi Sibhatu
German long-distance runner (born 1996)
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Samuel Fitwi Sibhatu (born 1 January 1996) is a German marathon runner. He won a bronze medal at the 2024 European Athletics Championships and ran at the 2024 Summer Olympics.[1]
Fitwi Sibhatu at the 2022 European Championships for the 10,000 Meters race | |||||||||||||||
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| Nationality | German | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 1 January 1996 | ||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Athletics | ||||||||||||||
Event | Long-distance running | ||||||||||||||
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Early life
Career
Having obtained German citizenship in 2018,[3] Sibhatu competed for Germany in the 10,000 meters at the 2022 European Athletics Championships in Munich, where he finished in ninth place with a new personal best time of 28:03.92 minutes.[4]
In 2023, Sibhatu achieved a personal best time of 2:08:28 hours at the Berlin Marathon, this also placed him in fourth place on the German all-time list.[5]
On January 7, 2024, Sibhatu set a new best time of 2:06:27 in finishing fifth in the Dubai Marathon, that time met the qualifying standard for the 2024 Olympic Games.[6]
He won a bronze medal at the 2024 European Athletics Championships in the Men's half marathon team event. In the individual race he placed fifth.[7] He competed at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, placing fifteenth in the marathon in 2:09:50.[8] In December 2024, he ran 2:04:56 for the marathon in Valencia, Spain.[9]
In April 2025, he won the Hannover Marathon in 2:06:29.[10] At the 2026 Hamburg Marathon on 26 April, he finished second behind Moroccan Othmane El Goumri in a lifetime best of 2:04:45, moving to tenth on the European all-time list.[11]