MISIKER DEMISSIE
ETHIOPIA
BIB NUMBER:
34
BIRTHDATE: July 23, 1986
PERSONAL BEST:
31:40 (Salt Lake City, 2010)
10-K HIGHLIGHTS:
24Jul10 Deseret Morning News 10-K 1st 31:40
27Mar10 Cooper River Bridge Run 10-K 2nd 32:34
04Apr09 Cooper River Bridge Run 10-K 2nd 32:38
28Mar09 Azalea Trail Run 10-K 4th 33:09
OTHER HIGHLIGHTS:
06Jun11 Rock 'n' Roll San Diego Marathon 2nd 2:25:21
15May11 Bay to Breakers 12-K 4th 40:36
01May11 Lilac Bloomsday 12-K 1st 40:22
23Jan11 Carlsbad Half-Marathon 2nd 1:15:13
16Jan11 Naples Daily News Half-Marathon 3rd 1:14:19
25Nov10 Silicon Valley Turkey Trot 5-K 6th 16:49
17Oct10 Long Beach Half-Marathon 1st 1:11:35
28Aug10 Crim Festival of Races 10-Mile 3rd 53:58
21Aug10 News and Sentinel Half-Marathon 5th 1:18:40#
17Jul10 Crazy 8's 8-K 6th 27:28
11Apr10 Cherry Blossom 10-Mile 4th 54:37
21Mar10 Los Angeles Marathon 2nd 2:26:20
# ran over-distance because of wrong turn
CAREER NOTES:
Misiker Mekonnin Demissie returns to Boston after running a personal best marathon of 2:25:21 early in June. Back in April she was forced to drop out of the Boston Marathon.
In May she won her first world-class road race, with a 40:22 at the Lilac Bloomsday Run 12-K. Demissie was just off that time a couple of weeks later when she urth at the Bay to Breakers race in San Francisco.
Demissie was formerly known as Teyba Naser when she had Bahrania citizenship. However when she was granted permanent resident status in the United States as a religious refugee in the spring of 2010,she reverted to her given Ethiopian name. She currently resides in Albuquerque, New Mexico.