Miruts Yifter

Note: Most of the photos shown here were obtained from a Spanish forum called 'El Atleta', being the
main contribuitors for those Kublai and DMSR. Thanks a lot to both for those great images.
My job was to resample and retouch some of them to proper visualization.

Last laps of the Moscow 10,000m final

Kotu (179), McLeod, Viren, Maaninka, Kedir, Vainio (222)



Viren & Kedir

Tolossa Kotu and Miruts Yifter

Leaders in Moscow 1980 (10,000m)


Yifter Leading



Viren's agony


10,000m heat: José Gómez (Mex) in 2nd Place.




10,000 meters Podium


Ryffel (Swi), Nyambui (649), Yifter and Fyodotkin in the 5,000m final at Moscow


5,000m Moscow 1980 and Yohannes Mohamed


Yifter at Rome, 1981


Yifter 'The Shifter'

5,000 m in Moscow. Yifter and Aleksandr Fyodotkin (USSR)

After winning the 10,000m in Moscow


Yifter in 2008