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Ethiopian Athletics Federation set to launch ‘Abebe Bikila Scholarship’

The Ethiopian Athletics Federation (EAF) has announced the launch of ‘Abebe Bikila Scholarship’. This targets the empowering of women in sports by providing a fully funded higher education scholarship for two women athletes/coaches annually. For starters, Shambel Abebe Bikila was an Ethiopian marathon runner who was a back-to-back Olympic marathon champion. He is the first African Olympic gold medalist, winning […]