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Ethiopian-born middle-distance runner

In this Ethiopian name, the name Aregawi is a patronymic, and the person should be referred by the given name, Abeba.

Abeba Aregawi Gebretsadik (Amharic: አበባ አረጋዊ; born 5 July 1990) is an Ethiopian-born Swedish retired middle-distance runner who specialised in the 1,500 metres.

She won the silver medal in the 1,500 m at the 2012 Summer Olympics and a gold medal at the World Championships in 2013. She represented Ethiopia internationally until December 2012, and afterwards represented Sweden.

Biography

Abeba Aregawi was born in Adigrat, Ethiopia in the Tigray Region.

She represented Ethiopia internationally until December 2012, after she became a naturalized Swedish citizen.^[2][3][4] She represented the Stockholm-based club Hammarby IF to January 2016.^[5]

Abeba was married to an Ethiopian man with Swedish citizenship and lived in Stockholm from 2009 to 2012.^{[citation needed}