Abebe Bikila
Ethiopian double Olympic marathon champion
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Updated 2026-05-29
Ethiopian marathon runner who won back-to-back Olympic golds in 1960 and 1964, both in world record time. His barefoot victory in Rome made him the first Ethiopian Olympic champion and the first to successfully defend an Olympic marathon title.
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Shambel Abebe Bikila 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. At the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, he won his second gold medal, making him the first athlete to successfully defend an Olympic marathon title. In both victories, he ran in world record time.
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