Eshetu Tura (; (born January 19, 1950) is a retired

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Ethiopia Ethiopia, officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, is a landlocked country located in the Horn of Africa region of East Africa. It shares borders with Eritrea to the north, Djibouti to the northeast, Somalia to the east, Ken ...

. He won a bronze medal in 3,000 metres steeplechase at the

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Career

Tura won the silver medal behind Kip Rono at the first

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. In the 1982 edition, he won the steeplechase competition as well as a silver in

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. Tura is currently working as a steeplechase coach for the Ethiopian national athletics team, where he also served as a coach for the late Somalian middle-distance athlete Samia Yusuf Omar.Somali inspiration battles against the odds
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* 1950 births Living people Ethiopian male long-distance runners Ethiopian male steeplechase runners Olympic athletes for Ethiopia Athletes (track and field) at the 1980 Summer Olympics Olympic bronze medalists for Ethiopia Ethiopian athletics coaches World Athletics Championships athletes for Ethiopia Medalists at the 1980 Summer Olympics Olympic bronze medalists in athletics (track and field) 20th-century Ethiopian sportsmen 21st-century Ethiopian people Competitors at the 1984 Friendship Games {{Ethiopia-athletics-bio-stub