page_title: Miruts Yifter
hierarchical_section_title: Miruts Yifter
caption_attribution_description: English: “5,000 m race”. Track and field athletics. The 22nd Summer Olympic Games in Moscow (July 19 - August 3, 1980). Athlets: 649 - Suleiman Nyambui (Tanzania) 191 - Miruts Yifter (Ethiopia) 208 - Kaarlo Maaninka (Finland) Русский: «Во время бега на дистанцию 5000 метров». Легкая атлетика. XXII летние Олимпийские игры. Проходили в Москве с 19 июля по 3 августа 1980 года. Россия, Москва. На переднем плане: 649 - Сулейман Ньямбуи (Танзания) 191 - Мирус Ифтер (Эфиопия) 208 - Карло Маанинка (Финляндия)
context_page_description: Miruts Yifter was an Ethiopian long-distance runner from Tigray and winner of two gold medals at the 1980 Summer Olympics. His date of birth is often given as 15 May 1944, though there is some uncertainty about this. His name is also sometimes spelled as Muruse Yefter.
context_section_description: Miruts Yifter (Amharic: ምሩፅ ይፍጠር, affectionately known as "Yifter the Shifter", 15 May 1944 – 22 December 2016) was an Ethiopian long-distance runner from Tigray and winner of two gold medals at the 1980 Summer Olympics. His date of birth is often given as 15 May 1944, though there is some uncertainty about this. His name is also sometimes spelled as Muruse Yefter.
caption: Yifter (#191), Nyambui (#649), and Maaninka (#208) at the 1980 Summer Olympics
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