Education
Turning to track events, she completed a 5000 metres/10,000 metres double at the Arab Athletics Championships.
Turning to track events, she completed a 5000 metres/10,000 metres double at the Arab Athletics Championships.
She competes mainly in cross country and track running events. Tejitu began running for Bahrain in 2009 and her first outing for her adopted country came at the Asian Cross Country Championships, where she was second in the junior ranks behind Shitaye Eshete (another Ethiopian-turned-Bahraini). She then ran in the junior race of the 2009 IAAF World Cross Country Championships, placing 23rd overall.
Tejitu also represented Bahrain in the 10,000 m at the competition and was fourth overall.
She ran a national junior record over 3000 m at the Arab Junior Championships, taking a 3000/5000 m double. She went on to take the 5000 m gold at the 2010 Asian Junior Athletics Championships, although she managed only fourth over 3000 m.
Later that month she attended the 2010 World Junior Championships in Athletics and delivered a 3000 m best of 9:01.22 minutes and 5000 m best of 15:29.78 minutes, reaching the top five in both disciplines. She represented Asia/Pacific at the 2010 IAAF Continental Cup and came sixth in the 3000 m.
She was chosen to compete for Bahrain at the 2010 Asian Games and gave her third personal best performance of the year in the 10,000 m, where her time of 32:21.29 minutes brought her seventh place.
She moved up to the senior level in 2011 and helped the Bahraini women to fourth in the team rankings at the 2011 IAAF World Cross Country Championships. She placed second behind Shitaye Eshete in the 5000 m at the 2011 Military World Games, and went on to set a personal best of 15:14.62 minutes to finish ninth at the 2011 World Championships in Athletics. She was runner-up in a Bahraini podium sweep at the 2012 Asian Cross Country Championships alongside Shitaye Eshete and Genzebe Shami.