Fatuma Roba

Fatuma Roba is an Ethiopian long-distance runner, best known for being the first African woman to win a gold medal in the women's Olympic marathon race, at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, and for winning three successive Boston Marathons. ^{Fatuma Roba, Ethiopian runner}

18 December 1973

Born on the same birth day (18 December): Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria • Bobby Keyes (rugby league) • Brianne Theisen-Eaton • DMX • Edward Willis Redfield • Geordie Walker • George T. Johnson • Harold E. Varmus • Imad Wasim • Jonathan Cainer • Knut Schreiner • Laurent Voulzy • Richard Maury • Rob Van Dam • Rosemary Leach • Thomas Lam • Ōuchi Yoshitaka

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