Sutume Asefa Kebede is a

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from

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 ...

. She won the 2024 Houston Half Marathon, the 2023

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, the 2019

Beijing Marathon The Beijing Marathon () is an annual marathon race held around October in Beijing, People's Republic of China, since 1981. The race begins at Tiananmen Square and finishes in Celebration Square in Olympic Green. The full marathon is the only ...

, the

2024 Tokyo Marathon The 2024 Tokyo Marathon was the 17th edition of the annual marathon race in Tokyo, held on Sunday, 3 March 2024. A Platinum Label marathon, it was the first of six annual World Marathon Majors events to be held in 2024. With over 37,000 competi ...

and the

2025 Tokyo Marathon The 2025 Tokyo Marathon was the 18th edition of the annual marathon race in Tokyo, held on Sunday, 2 March 2025. A Platinum Label marathon, it was the first of seven World Marathon Majors events to be held in 2025. Ethiopians Tadese Takele ...

Career

The first performance of Kebede that was recorded by the

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is her victory at the 15K race at the in

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, on , which she finished with a time of 50:34.6. Later in 2015 she won six races on six consecutive weekends, including the 10K event at the in

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, on with a time of 31:47,, the by

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, on with a time of 1:09:07, and the

25 Berlin The S 25 Berlin () is an annual road running competition over 25K run, 25 kilometres that takes place in Berlin, Germany in early May. The competition was created in 1981 by the French Forces in Berlin stationed in West Berlin and was titled ...

, a 25K in

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, on with a time of 1:21:55. Her performance in the 25 Berlin was also an Ethiopian record at the time. In January 2024 she became the fastest runner of any women’s half marathon located in America, by winning the 2024 Houston Half Marathon with a time of 1:04.37.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Kebede, Sutume Asefa 1994 births Living people 21st-century Ethiopian sportswomen Ethiopian female long-distance runners Ethiopian female marathon runners Tokyo Marathon female winners