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Girma Tolla

Ethiopian long-distance runner

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionNov 9, 2025
Entity authorityQ180105 ↗
Source-derived summary

Girma Tolla (born 13 October 1975) is an Ethiopian long-distance runner, who specializes in the marathon race, having previously concentrated on the 10,000 metres.

Achievements

Personal bests

3000 metres - 7:42.98 min (1999)

5000 metres - 13:15.72 min (1998)

10,000 metres - 27:13.48 min (1999)

Half marathon - 1:02:06 hrs (2003)

Marathon - 2:10:33 hrs (2004)

External links

Girma Tolla at World Athletics

Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Girma Tolla". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 2013-12-06.

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

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1975, 1999, 1998, 2003—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1975-10-13. The account is most persuasive where Girma, Tolla 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 long-distance runner. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Nov 9, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q180105. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1975, 1999, 1998 and 2003.

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This entry incorporates text from “Girma Tolla” 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.