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Alemayehu Roba

Ethiopian distance runner

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionOct 18, 2025
Entity authorityQ4716069
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Alemayehu Roba (born 27 October 1972) is a retired Ethiopian middle distance runner who specialized in the 1500 metres.

He won a silver medal at the 1990 World Junior Championships and a bronze medal at the 1991 All-Africa Games. He competed at the 1991 World Championships, but did not progress from the qualification round.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Alemayehu Roba” as ethiopian distance runner. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1972, 1500, 1990, 1991—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1972-10-27. The account is most persuasive where Alemayehu, Roba and Ethiopian can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as ethiopian distance runner. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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This entry incorporates text from Alemayehu Roba” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.