Girmaw Amare

Girmaw Amare (; ; born 26 October 1987) is an Olympic runner who competes in the 10,000 m, half marathon, marathon, and half marathon team event. Born in Ethiopia, he represented Israel at the 2020 Summer Olympics. In 2022, Amare won a team gold medal in the 2022 European Marathon Cup at the 2022 European Athletics Championships. In 2023 at the Valencia Marathon, Amare ran a personal best 2:05:52. Amare represented Israel at the 2024 Paris Olympics in the Men's marathon, and placed 44th.

Biography Amare was born in West Gojjam Zone, Ethiopia, and is Jewish. He was born to an Ethiopian-Jewish family, and grew up in a village that had neither electricity nor running water. He immigrated to Israel with his family in 2006, at 19 years of age. He is married, and has a daughter named Adi.

In January 2017 Amare won a silver medal in the 40th Sea of Galilee Tiberias International Marathon with a time of 2:17:20.

In January 2018 Amare won the 41st Sea of Galilee Tiberias International Marathon with a time of 2:15.30, the sixth-best time ever by an Israeli, and won the Israeli national championship.

In February 2018, he won the Israeli 15 km Challenge in Rishon Letzion, Israel, with a time of 44:55.

In February 2019, he won the Israeli 15 km Championships in Rishon Letzion, Israel, with a time of 45:13.

2022–present; European Marathon Cup gold medal

In April 2022 at the Berlin Half Marathon in Berlin, Germany, Amare ran a personal best 1:02:00, coming in 13th.

In December 2022 at the Tiberias Half Marathon he ran a 1:03:21, winning a bronze medal. A half marathon was run rather than a full marathon because of the proximity of the race to the Paris Olympics marathon. He ran it in a time of 2:12:51 (as Tamirat Tola of Ethiopia won in a time of 2:06:26), and came in 44th.

Personal bests 1,500 metres - 3:46.70 (2015)

3,000 metres - 8:02.73 (2020)

5,000 metres - 13:48.32 (2022)

5 kilometres - 13:51 (2021)s

10,000 metres - 28:10.32 (2015)

15 kilometres - 44:55 (2018)

One hour run - 20,584 metres (2020) (Israeli record)

Half marathon - 1:01:31 (2024)

Marathon - 2:05:52 (2023)