Tumo Turbo
Olympic athlete
1970 – 2008
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Who was Tumo Turbo?
Tumo Turbo was a long-distance runner from Ethiopia, who won the Eindhoven Marathon on October 13, 1996, clocking a total time of 2:11:26.
Turbo represented his native country in the men's marathon at the 1996 Summer Olympics, alongside Abebe Mekonnen and Belayneh Dinsamo, but did not finish the race. As of 2011, he still holds the course record in the Tel Aviv Marathon.
He died on Monday October 29, 2008 in a fatal car accident which occurred in the Addis Ababa-Awassa road and killed another 18 people.
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