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In March, Netsanet Gudeta overcame challenging conditions to win gold at the IAAF Half Marathon World Championships in Valencia, Spain in a time of 1:06:11.

Gudeta was the bronze medalist at the IAAF World Cross Country Championships in 2015; she also shared in the team title in that competition, after helping her team win silver the previous year.

She has missed out on global championships on the track the last three years, finishing sixth in the Ethiopian 10,000 meters championships in 2015 and fourth over that distance at the 2016 Olympic trials. She had just one outing on the track last year when she finished third in the 5000 meters at the national championships and then was not picked for the world championships.

Gudeta made a promising marathon debut in 2017, finishing in sixth place at the Paris Marathon in 2:29:15. She typically trains on her own outside of the Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa with her husband,national standard runner Gelelcha Girma.