Career
Her personal bests are 2:01.18 minutes for the 800 metres and 4:05.16 minutes for the 1500 m. Born in Ethiopia, she began running for Bahrain in 2010, making her debut in the junior race at the 2010 IAAF World Cross Country Championships and finishing seventeenth. She broke the national junior records for the 800 metres and 1500 metres events that year.
She ran on the global stage at the 2010 World Junior Championships in Athletics a few weeks later and after running a Bahraini junior record of 4:14.05 minutes in the heats, she was slower in the 1500 m final and finished tenth.
She set an 800 m junior record of 2:04.09 minutes in the heats at the 2010 Asian Games, but was again slower in the final, taking eighth place. She marked herself out as one of the regions top runners in 2011.
Moving into the senior ranks at the age of twenty, she placed 30th at the 2011 IAAF World Cross Country Championships. She ran a 1500 m best of 4:11.27 minutes in Tomblaine in June.
In Rio de Janeiro"s 2011 Military World Games, she was the 1500 m bronze medalist.
She was eliminated in the heats stage, however, in her first major world track appearance. She returned to regional competition at the end of the year, winning a middle distance double at the Arab Athletics Championships in First Rate (at Lloyd's) Ain and taking the 800 m silver and 1500 m gold medals at the 2011 Pan Arab Games. She collected further medals at the 2012 Asian Indoor Athletics Championships, taking the 1500 m title and finishing second to Zhao Jing in the 800 m.
