Dawit Seare

Dawit Seare Berhanyukun (born 29 December 2004) is an Eritrean long distance runner. He competed at the 2024 Summer Olympics and won the gold medal over 5000 metres at the 2026 African Championships in Athletics.

Biography He placed fourth at the 5 km road race at the 2023 World Athletics Road Running Championships held on 1 October 2023 in Riga, Latvia. With this effort he set a national record time of 13:21:03. Later that month, he won his first road race over 10 km, in Berlin.

He finished sixth at the Athletics at the 2023 African Games in Accra over 10,000 metres. At the same Games he finished ninth in the 5000 metres.

He competed in the 2024 Summer Olympics over 5000 metres and qualified for the final.

He finished in tenth place at the 2025 World Athletics Indoor Championships in Nanjing, in the 3000 metres. In April 2025, Seare won the Boston 5K in Massachusetts, finishing in a time of 13:33, ahead of Amon Kemboi and Patrick Dever.

In May 2026, he won the gold medal in the 5000 metres at the 2026 African Championships in Athletics in Accra, Ghana, delivering only the second gold medal in Eritrea's history at the Championships, 14 years after Nguse Amlosom secured the nation’s first in 2014.

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