Maryam Yusuf Jamal

Maryam Yusuf Jamal is a middle-distance runner who competes for Bahrain and who won the women's 1,500 metres at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London. Olympedia gives her birthplace as Arsi in the Oromiya region of Ethiopia, where she was born on 16 September 1984, and records that she adopted Bahraini nationality in January 2005, so she represented Bahrain at both of her Olympic Games. It also lists Zenebech Tola among her other names. Her personal best for the 1,500 metres is 3:56.18, set in 2006. She finished fifth in the same event at the 2008 Summer Olympics, then took the gold medal four years later. Her record also includes two world titles over 1,500 metres, at the 2007 Osaka and 2009 Berlin world championships, indoor medals including a silver in 2008 and bronze medals in 2006 and 2014, and five Asian Games gold medals between 2006 and 2014. She is married to the runner Homiyu Tesfaye.