Mekdes Woldu, born on 20 October 1992 in Adi-keblo, Eritrea, is a French long-distance runner of Eritrean origin who was naturalized as a French citizen on 26 May 2021. As an Eritrean athlete she finished eighth in the 5,000 metres at the 2011 African Games in Maputo. After becoming French she won the French Championships in the 10,000 metres, the French 10 km Championships and the French semi-marathon Championships in 2021, and the Marseille-Cassis 20-kilometre race. She set a French semi-marathon record in 2022, ran her first marathon in Hamburg in April 2023, a performance that qualified her for the 2023 World Athletics Championships and the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, and set the French marathon record in 2025.
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She was naturalized as a French citizen on 26 May 2021.
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Mekdes Woldu (born 20 October 1992) is a French long-distance runner of Eritrean origin.
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She ran her first marathon in Hamburg in April 2023, achieving the third-best performance of all time by a French woman
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