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Shambel Abebe Bikila ( Amharic: ሻምበል አበበ ቢቂላ; August 7, 1932 – October 25, 1973) was an Ethiopian marathon runner who was a back-to-back Olympic marathon champion. He was the first Ethiopian Olympic gold medalist, winning his first gold medal at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome while running barefoot. [3]
Jul 19, 2024 · Abebe Bikila (1932–73) was a marathon runner from Ethiopia who won a gold medal while running barefoot at the 1960 Olympic Games in Rome. He then bested his own record at the 1964 Olympics in Tokyo.
Oct 11, 2020 · Nobody outside of Ethiopia had heard of Abebe Bikila when he arrived at the Rome 1960 Olympic Games. He hadn’t even been the first choice entrant for his country, who until that point had never won an Olympic gold medal.
Jul 17, 2024 · Paris 2024 Olympics: Abebe Bikila - the African runner who kept on making history - BBC Sport. Who was Africa’s first black Olympic gold medallist? Abebe Bikila's two Olympic marathon...
Jul 17, 2024 · Paris 2024 Olympics: Abebe Bikila - the African runner who kept on making history - BBC Sport. Who was Africa’s first black Olympic gold medallist? Abebe Bikila's two Olympic marathon victories...
Sep 10, 2020 · When Abebe Bikila – running barefoot - became the first black African to win an Olympic marathon gold medal on the streets of Rome it was without doubt one of the most iconic moments of the 1960 Games.
Abebe Bikila was born in Ethiopia on 7 August 1932, the day of the Los Angeles Olympic marathon. Attacking by the obelisk Twenty-eight years later, he entered the marathon at the 1960 Olympic Games in Rome.
Jul 19, 2024 · Abebe Bikila: The man who changed African running. From serving Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia to becoming a marathon legend, Abebe Bikila made history as the first black African man to win an ...
Mar 8, 2012 · Abebe Bikila's marathon victory at the 1960 Olympic Games was the first time that an Olympic gold medal had been won by a black athlete representing an African nation. His triumph in Rome became a beacon for the generations of African runners, particularly from East Africa, that followed in his footsteps in the subsequent decades.
Though it came to an early tragic end, Abebe Bikila was usually considered the greatest marathoner ever during his life. He was the first person to win the Olympic marathon consecutively, doing so in 1960 and 1964.
