Teddese Lemi Urgesa (born 20 January 1999) is an Ethiopian

track and field Track and field is a sport that includes athletic contests based on running, jumping, and throwing skills. The name is derived from where the sport takes place, a running track and a grass field for the throwing and some of the jumping eve ...

athlete who specializes in middle-distance running. He competed at the

2019 IAAF World Cross Country Championships The 2019 IAAF World Cross Country Championships were hosted in the city of Aarhus in Denmark. It was the 43rd edition of the championships and was held on 30 March 2019. A part of the course was run on the grounds and grass roof of the Moesgaard ...

Aarhus Aarhus (, , ; officially spelled Århus from 1948 until 1 January 2011) is the second-largest city in Denmark and the seat of Aarhus Municipality. It is located on the eastern shore of Jutland in the Kattegat sea and approximately northwes ...

, where he won a gold medal in mixed relay with the Ethiopian team. He represented Ethiopia at the

2019 World Athletics Championships The 2019 IAAF World Athletics Championships () was the seventeenth edition of the biennial, global athletics competition organised by the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF), since renamed World Athletics. It was held bet ...

, competing in men's 1500 metres. He also competed in the

1500 metres The 1500 metres or 1,500-metre run (typically pronounced 'fifteen-hundred metres') is the foremost middle distance track event in athletics. The distance has been contested at the Summer Olympics since 1896 and the World Championships in Athle ...

at the 2020 Summer Olympics.

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Ethiopian male middle-distance runners 1999 births Living people World Athletics Championships athletes for Ethiopia Athletes (track and field) at the 2020 Summer Olympics Olympic athletes for Ethiopia 21st-century Ethiopian people {{Ethiopia-athletics-bio-stub