Worknesh Mesele
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(2001-06-10) 10 June 2001 (age 24)
.jpg) Worknesh Mesele in 2023 | |
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Nationality | Ethiopian |
| Born | Worknesh Musele Handeno (2001-06-10) 10 June 2001 (age 24) Shebedino, Sidama Region, Ethiopia |
| Sport | |
| Sport | Track and Field |
Event(s) | 400 m, 800 m, 1500 m |
Worknesh Musele Handeno (born 10 June 2001) is an Ethiopian athlete who has won Ethiopian national championship titles over 400 metres and 800 metres.
Musele ran the 11th fastest time in the world in 2021 in the women's 800 m when she completed the Ethiopian Olympic Trial. She had previously competed at the 2019 African Games in Kabat in the 400 m and the 4 × 400 m relay.[1][2]
She ran a personal best 1:58:71 in the 800 m at the Ethiopian Olympic trial to finish third behind Werkwuha Getachew and Habitam Alemu in June 2021 to secure her place at the delayed 2020 Tokyo Olympics. Her previous personal best had been 2:02:20.[3][4] She was named in the Ethiopian squad for the games,[5] however she did not compete.[6] On 30 June, 2021 she won the 800 m at the Irena Szewińska Memorial meeting in Bydgoszcz on the 2021 World Athletics Continental Tour, beating compatriot Diribe Welteji by .07 seconds.[7]
In March 2022 Musele won her second national title winning the 800 m in Hawassa. She finished fourth in the 2022 African Championships in Athletics – Women's 800 metres race.[8]
In 2023, she participated in the World Championships in Budapest, and reached the semi finals of the 800 metres.[9]
At the 2024 Olympics, she set two new personal bests in the qualifying rounds of the 800 m, running 1:58.07 and then 1:58.06.[10] She went on to place sixth in the final.[11]
She ran an indoor personal best over 1500 metres, of 4:05.06, in Liévin on 13 February 2025.[12] She lowered it again on 16 February 2025, running 4:02.19 at the Copernicus Cup.[13] She was selected for the 1500 metres at the 2025 World Athletics Indoor Championships in Nanjing in March 2025.[14] She finished second in the 1500 metres at the 2025 Meeting International Mohammed VI d'Athlétisme de Rabat, in May 2025.[15] The following month, she placed fifth at the 2025 Meeting de Paris and eighth at the 2025 Prefontaine Classic on 5 July.[16][17]
In September 2025, she was a semi-finalist in the women's 800 metres at the 2025 World Athletics Championships in Tokyo, Japan.[18]
References
- ↑ "800 Metres - women - senior - outdoor - 2021". World Athletics. 6 December 2021. Archived from the original on 6 December 2021. Retrieved 28 November 2025.
- ↑ "Werknesh Melese Profile". World Athletics. Retrieved 28 November 2025.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ↑ "Ethiopian Trials - Worknesh Mesele". Athletics.app. Retrieved 28 November 2025.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ↑ "2021 Ethiopian Olympic Trials: Gudaf Tsegay (14:13) & Getnet Wale (12:53) Among Six World-Leading Times as New Stars Emerge". 8 June 2021.
- ↑ "Ethiopia selects 34 athletes for Tokyo | NEWS | World Athletics". worldathletics.org. Archived from the original on 2021-07-02. Retrieved 2021-10-14.
- ↑ "Athletics - WORKNESH MESELE Handeno - Tokyo 2020 Olympics". Tokyo2020.org. Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Archived from the original on 2021-08-06. Retrieved 2021-08-06.
- ↑ "Ethiopians Duel To Sub-2 800m At Continental Tour". Flotrack.org.
- ↑ "Results". maa.mu.
- ↑ "Women's 800m Results: World Athletics Championships 2023". World Athletics. 23 August 2023. Retrieved 23 August 2023.
- ↑ "2024 Summer Olympics Women's 800m Results". olympics. 2 August 2024. Retrieved 2 August 2024.
- ↑ "Women's 800m Results - Paris Olympic Games 2024 Athletics". Watch Athletics. 5 August 2024. Retrieved 8 September 2024.
- ↑ "Ingebrigtsen smashes world indoor 1500m and mile records in Lievin". World Athletics. 13 February 2025. Retrieved 14 February 2025.
- ↑ "Tsegay rebounds with No.2 all time indoor 1500m in Torun". World Athletics. 16 February 2025. Retrieved 16 February 2025.
- ↑ "Tsegay, Duguma, Tefera and Hailu to represent Ethiopia in Nanjing". World Athletics. 14 March 2025. Retrieved 14 March 2025.
- ↑ "Results - Rabat Diamond League 2025". Watch Athletics. 25 May 2025. Retrieved 28 May 2025.
- ↑ "Results - Eugene Diamond League - Pre Classic 2025". Watch Athletics Weekly. 5 July 2025. Retrieved 6 July 2025.
- ↑ "Results - Paris Diamond League 2025". Watch Athletics. 20 June 2025. Retrieved 22 June 2025.
- ↑ "World Athletics Championships, Tokyo 2025". World Athletics. 21 Sep 2025. Retrieved 21 September 2025.
External links
- Worknesh MESELE at World Athletics
- Worknesh Mesele Handeno at myKhel.com
- Worknesh Mesele Handeno at The-Sports.org
