Ebba Tulu Chala

Ebba Tulu Chala (born 22 June 1996) is a Swedish athlete who competes in the marathon. He was born in Ethiopia and emigrated as a child.

Early life Chala is an Oromo from near Bekoji, where the altitude is between 2,500 and 3,000 metres. Two months after his arrival, at , his school in Huddinge Municipality, he tried running and discovered he was very fast.

Running career Three weeks after his discovery, Chala was entered by his teacher in a 10,000 m race at Nacka, and came third with a time of 32.22.

At the Seville Marathon in February 2020, he reached the international qualifying standard for the Summer Olympics as well as the World Athletics Championships with a personal best time of 2:11:18; however, the Swedish Olympic standard is lower, at 2 hours, 11 minutes. Sidelined by injuries after that, he returned to run the Stockholm Marathon in 2021 and in early 2022 trained in Ethiopia together with the Iranian-Swedish marathoner .

Initially threatened with deportation,

In August 2026, he competed at the 2026 European Athletics Championships in Birmingham, England, placing thirteenth overall in the men's marathon.