Tsige Duguma
Ethiopian athlete (born 2001)
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Tsige Duguma (Amharic: ጽጌ ዱጉማ; born 23 February 2001) is an Ethiopian track and field athlete who won gold at the 2024 World Athletics Indoor Championships over 800 metres. She is also an Ethiopian national champion over 400 metres.[1]
Duguma at the 2024 Summer Olympics | |
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Full name | Tsige Duguma |
| Nationality | Ethiopian |
| Born | 23 February 2001 |
| Sport | |
| Sport | Athletics |
Event(s) | 400 metres, 800 metres |
| Achievements and titles | |
| Personal best(s) | 400 m: 54.43 (St Pierre, 2022) 800 m: 1:56.54 (Shanghai, 2025) |
Medal record | |
Biography
She was a silver medalist over 200 metres at the 2017 African U20 Championships in Athletics in Algeria.[2]
In March 2022, she won the Ethiopian national indoor championships over 400 metres in Hawassa.[3] In July 2023, she set a new personal best over 800 metres, breaking the 2-minute barrier for the first time as she record 1:59.40 in Belgium.[4]
In February 2024, she completed a front-running victory over 800 metres in Belgrade in a time of 1:59.66.[5] She won gold at the 2024 World Athletics Indoor Championships in Glasgow in the women's 800 metres.[6] She had previously won her qualifying heat in a time of 2:00.50, and won her semi-final in a personal best time 1:58.35.[7][8] She became Ethiopia's first women's world indoor champion in the discipline.[9]
In March 2024, she won gold in the 800 metres at the African Games.[10] Tsige ran a personal best of 1:57.15 in the final of the 800 m at the Paris Olympics to place second and earn a silver medal behind winner Keely Hodgkinson.[11]
She won the 800 metres indoors at the Copernicus Cup in Poland, on 16 February 2025.[12] She was awarded a wild card place for the 2025 World Athletics Indoor Championships in Nanjing, China, for her performances on the 2025 World Athletics Indoor Tour.[13] At the championships, she reached the final of the 800 metres.[14]
Competing at the 2025 Shanghai Diamond League, she ran a national and meet record 1:56.64 to win the women’s 800 m.[15][16] In May 2025, she also won the 800 metres at the 2025 Meeting International Mohammed VI d'Athlétisme de Rabat, part of the 2025 Diamond League.[17] She ran 1:57.10 to win the 800 metres at the 2025 Prefontaine Classic on 5 July.[18]
In September 2025, she was a semi-finalist in the women's 800 metres at the 2025 World Athletics Championships in Tokyo, Japan.[19]
On 1 February 2026, she on ahead of Addy Wiley and Maggi Congdon over 1000 metres at the Millrose Games in 2:35.50.[20] Duguma was selected for the Ethiopian team to compete in the 1500 m at the 2026 World Athletics Indoor Championships in Kuyavian–Pomeranian, Poland. However, on the eve of the championships it was reported that she was one of a number of Ethiopian athletes, including Saron Berhe and Haregeweyni Kalayu, who were unable to compete due to issues obtaining the requisite VISA.[21]