Dejen Gebremeskel

Dejen Gebremeskel is an Ethiopian track runner who specialised in the 5,000 metres. He was born on 24 November 1989 in Adigrat, in the Tigray region of Ethiopia, and is recorded as standing 180 centimetres tall and weighing 58 kilograms. His best Olympic result came at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, where he finished second in the men's 5,000 metres and took the silver medal for Ethiopia. He returned for the 2016 Summer Olympics and placed twelfth in the same event. Away from the Games he also reached the podium at the global championships: he is listed as a bronze medallist in the 5,000 metres at the 2011 World Athletics Championships in Daegu and as a bronze medallist in the 3,000 metres at the 2014 World Athletics Indoor Championships in Sopot.