Sports of Ethiopia
Africa
Widely played in Ethiopia
Hurdles
From United Kingdom
Track athletics event in which runners sprint and clear 10 barrier hurdles evenly spaced along the track — Olympic events: 100mH (women), 110mH (men), 400mH (both).
Long Jump
From Greece
Track-and-field horizontal jump: sprint down a runway and jump for maximum distance from a fixed take-off board into a sand pit.
Marathon
From Greece
The classic 42.195-kilometre road race — the Olympic long-distance running event and the flagship event of every big-city runner festival.
Steeplechase
From United Kingdom
Long-distance track event — 3000m with 28 solid BARRIERS + 7 WATER JUMPS (barrier + water pit combination). Blend of distance running + hurdling + water traversal. Olympic sport (men since 1920, women since 2008). Kenya + Ethiopia dominant globally. World record: SOUFIANE EL BAKKALI (Morocco) men 7:52.11 (2023); BEATRICE CHEPKOECH (Kenya) women 8:44.32 (2018).