Yemaneberhan Crippa


Yemaneberhan “Yeman″ Crippa is an Ethiopian-born Italian long-distance runner. who won gold medal at the 2019 European Team Championships and 2019 European 10,000m Cup.
At youth level he won the gold medal at the 2017 European Athletics U23 Championships and in the under-20 race at the 2014 and 2015 European Cross Country Championships and bronze in the U23 race at the 2016 European Cross Country Championships.

Biography

Born in Dessie, in the north-eastern part of Ethiopia, Yemaneberhan lost his parents in the Eritrean–Ethiopian War and landed in an orphanage in Addis Abeba. He was adopted in 2001 by an Italian couple, Roberto and Luisa Crippa, and settled with them in Trento. He was one of the nine children adopted by the couple, together with his older brothers Nekagenet and Kelemu. At the beginning he concentrated on football before switching to running in 2007, both of his brothers also being runners.
Winning several medals in various age categories, he made his senior debut at the 2016 European Championships in Amsterdam finishing eighth in the 5000 metres. A year later he finished seventh in the 3000 metres at the 2017 European Indoor Championships in Belgrade.
In 2019, he made the 10.000 metres national record at the Doha World Championship in 27:10.76.

National records

;Under 23
Senior
;Outdoor
;Indoor

National titles

He won four national titles at senior level.