Genet Yalew Kassahun (born 31 December 1992) is an Ethiopian professional long-distance runner who competes in track, cross country and road running events. Her half marathon best of 66:26 minutes is the Ethiopian record and ranks her in the top ten all-time for the sport.senior outdoor Half Marathon women. IAAF. Retrieved on 2016-03-29.
As an age-category athlete she won several individual medals, first taking 3000 metres bronze at the 2009 World Youth Championships in Athletics, then the junior silver at the 2011 IAAF World Cross Country Championships and finally another track bronze at the 2011 African Junior Athletics Championships. As part of the Ethiopian junior cross country team, she shared in a silver in 2010 before leading the team to gold in the 2011 edition.Genet Yalew. IAAF. Retrieved on 2016-03-29. She began competing on the IAAF Diamond League senior circuit in the 2011 and 2012 seasons.Genet Ayalew. Association of Road Racing Statisticians. Retrieved on 2016-03-29.
Genet was a medal-winning team member for Ethiopia at the 2013 IAAF World Cross Country Championships and won a second team silver at the 2014 IAAF World Half Marathon Championships. She shared in the team gold medal at the 2015 IAAF World Cross Country Championships, but was not a point-scoring member of the team, having finished in tenth. On the track, she came short of a medal over 10,000 metres at the 2014 African Championships in Athletics, and was again off the podium at the 2015 African Games, taking fifth in the 5000 m. She finished in that same place at the 2016 IAAF World Half Marathon Championships, which helped an Ethiopian team of Netsanet Gudeta, Genet and Dehininet Demsew to the silver medals.
International competitions 2009World Youth ChampionshipsBrixen, Italy3rd3000 m9:08.952010World Cross Country ChampionshipsBydgoszcz, Poland5thJunior race19:032ndJunior team30 ptsWorld Junior ChampionshipsMoncton, Canada6th3000 m9:01.752011World Cross Country ChampionshipsPunta Umbría, Spain2ndJunior race18:541stJunior team17 ptsAfrican Junior ChampionshipsGaborone, Botswana3rd5000 m15:27.962012African Cross Country ChampionshipsCape Town, South Africa8thSenior race27:492ndSenior team1:50:262013World Cross Country ChampionshipsBydgoszcz, Poland15thSenior race25:102ndSenior team48 pts2014World Half Marathon ChampionshipsCopenhagen, Denmark10thHalf marathon1:09:152ndTeam3:27:05African ChampionshipsMarrakesh, Morocco4th10,000 m32:52.462015World Cross Country ChampionshipsGuiyang, China10thSenior race27:001stSenior team17 ptsAfrican GamesBrazzaville, Republic of the Congo5th5000 m15:43.772016World Half Marathon ChampionshipsCardiff, United Kingdom5thHalf marathon1:08:152ndTeam3:26:29
Circuit wins Egmond Half Marathon: 2016 Tilburg 10K: 2015 Jan Meda Cross Country: 2014 Obudu Ranch International Mountain Race: 2011
Personal bests 3000 metres – 9:01.75 min (2010) 5000 metres – 14:48.43 min (2012) 10,000 metres – 31:08.82 min (2015) 10 kilometres – 30:58 min (2015) Half marathon – 66:26 min (2016)
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All-Athletics profile