Amane Beriso

Amane Beriso Shankule (born 13 October 1991) is an Ethiopian long-distance runner. In 2023, she won the marathon at the 2023 World Athletics Championships in Budapest. In 2022, she improved her marathon personal best by nearly six minutes to take the win at the 2022 Valencia Marathon, placing third on the world all-time list.

In August 2022, she took victory at the Mexico City Marathon at an elevation of over 7,000 feet (2:25:05). On 4 December, the 31-year-old pulled off a big upset with a 2:14:58 win at the Valencia Marathon, an improvement of 5:50 on her 2016 personal best, to set a course record, Ethiopian national record and move to third on the world all-time ranking list. She became only the third woman ever to break 2:15:00 and according to her coach world record (2:14:04) would have been achievable if the pacemakers, who stayed with struggling Letesenbet Gidey after the 36 km mark, had run with her. and in December 2023, Beriso Shankule finished third in the 15 kilometres Montferland Run in 's-Heerenberg with a time of 47:53, 13 seconds behind Medina Eisa.

Personal bests 10 kilometres – 32:52 (Langueux 2015) 15 kilometres – 47:53 ('s-Heerenberg 2023) Half marathon – 1:10:54 (Warsaw 2015) (1:08:43 not legal, 2015) Marathon – 2:14:58 (Valencia 2022) , 3rd fastest of all time