Ya lashe San Blas Half Marathon a farkon 1983 tare da lokaci na 1:04:40 hours. Ya fito a matsayin mai tseren tseren tseren tseren ba da daɗewa ba bayan haka a
1983 IAAF World Cross Country Championships, ta shawo kan Carlos Lopes da Some Muge don zama zakaran duniya kuma ta dauki lambar zinare tare da Habasha. Dukkan 'yan wasan uku sun yi rikodin lokaci guda a cikin mafi kusa da aka gama a gasar. Ya zama mutum na biyu dan Afirka da ya lashe gasar bayan Mohamed Kedir, wanda ya lashe a shekarar da ta gabata. Daga baya a wannan shekarar ya fafata a tseren mita 10,000 a gasar zakarun duniya ta farko a shekarar 1983. Ya gudu mafi kyau na minti 27:49.30 a cikin zafin jiki, amma ya ɗan yi jinkiri a wasan karshe kuma ya zama na goma, a bayan abokin aikinsa Kedir.