Tadu Teshome Nare
Ethiopian runner (born 2001)
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Tadu Teshome Nare (born 9 June 2001) is an Ethiopian runner who finished fifth at the 2023 Chicago Marathon, and has won multiple seasons of the South African SPAR Grand Prix 10km series.
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Citizenship | Ethiopian |
| Born | 9 June 2001 |
| Sport | |
| Country | Ethiopia |
| Sport | Running |
| Club | Nedbank |
Career
Nare has competed for Nedbank Running Club in South Africa.[1] In 2021, Nare won her debut marathon, the Barcelona Marathon. In 2022, she won the Copenhagen Half Marathon and Valencia Marathon, the latter with the 12th fastest time in history.[1] That year, she also won the overall title at the South African SPAR Grand Prix 10km series. She won five of the six events in the series.[2]
In 2023, she finished fifth at the Chicago Marathon,[3] eighth at the London Marathon[4] and sixth in the Shanghai Marathon.[5] Nare won the 2023 SPAR Grand Prix series, after winning four of the first six events;[6] she set a course record at the event in Mbombela.[7] Nare missed the first event of the series to compete at the London Marathon[8] and she also chose to miss the final event of the series in Johannesburg to prepare for the Chicago Marathon.[6]
Nare won the Mpumalanga Marathon in 2024, billed as Africa's richest marathon, with a prize money of R1 million.[9] However, she, along with other winners, did not receive any prize money, and criminal charges have been laid against the organiser.[10] Nare had foregone an appearance fee of R750,000 to appear in the Sydney Marathon in order to participate in Mpumalanga.[9]
In June 2025, Nare was served with a 22-month ban to run from February 2025 to December 2026 for an anti-doping rule violation for whereabouts failures (three missed tests).[11]