Fatuma Roba Quotes

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Fatuma Roba (born 18 December 1973) 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 Atlanta 1996 Summer Olympics and for winning three successive Boston Marathons.

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I really did not get any encouragement from anyone, but I pushed on because I liked to run. I made my first national team in 1988.