Kalkidan Gezahegne (yavutse ku ya 8 Gicurasi 1991) ^[1] Ni umunyatiyopiya ufite ubwengihugu bwa Baharayini, wuruka metero 10,000 muri 2020 i tokiyo, Yegukanye umudari wa silver olempike. Imyaka 11 mbere yaho, afite imyaka 18, Gezahegne yabaye shampiyo ukiri muto wabaye, imbere mu nzu igihe yatsindaga muri metero 1500 .

Gezahegne w'imyaka 17 yegukanye umudari wa feza hejuru ya metero 1500 muri Shampiyona yisi y'abato muri 2008 . Yahagarariye Etiyopiya mbere yo kubona ubwe negihugu bwa Bahirayini muri 2013.

Kalkidan Gezahegne yavukiye Addis Abeba . Yatsindiye umudari wa feza muri metero 1500 muri Shampiyona y’isi y’abangavu muri 2008 kandi yegukana undi wa feza y’abato mu marushanwa y’imikino ngororamubiri muri Afurika yo muri 2009, arangiza inyuma ya Caster Semenya . ^[2] Kuzamuka kurwego rwo hejuru, Kalkidan yarangije k'umunani muri metero 1500 kwiruka muri Shampiyona yisi muri 2009 na gatanu muri metero 3000 k'umukino wa nyuma wi mikino ngororamubiri muri 2009 .

Yarushanwe mu marushanwa mpuzamahanga yo mu nzu ya IAAF yo muri 2010, yagarutse bitangaje kugira ngo yemererwe ku mukino wa nyuma. Hagati y’ubushyuhe, ya gonganye n'umurusiya Yevgeniya Zolotova agwa mu nzira. Yagarutse kugira ngo akomeze isiganwa, ariko, kandi ntiyafashe gusa abo bahanganye, ahubwo yatsinze iryo siganwa hamwe n’igihe cyihuta cy’abiruka uwo munsi. ^[3] Ku mukino wa nyuma yarushije igihugu cye ndetse na nyampinga uganje Gelete Burka gutwara umudari wa zahabu. Ibi byatumye umusore w'imyaka 18 yatsindiye kuba muto mu birori byabereye mu marushanwa ya IAAF y’isi yaberaga mu nzu, yatsinze amateka yabanje gushyirwaho na Gabriela Szabo mu myaka 15 ishize. ^[4] Yabuze igihe cyo hanze muri uwo mwaka kubera imvune. ^[5]

Ku ya 3 Ukwakira 2021, Gezahegne yanditse agahigo ku isimuri kilometero 10 kumuhanda wo kwiruka mu birori bya Giants Geneve, biruka iminota 29:38 no kurenza ikimenyetso cyabanjirije amasegonda 5. ^[6]