Ka cika wannan magana: Dan asalin lardin Bale, a Habasha, ya soma sha'awar yin tsere na sana'a bayan ya ga ɗan ƙasarsa Haile Gebrselassie ya doke Paul Tergat ya lashe zinare a gasar Olympics ta Sydney a shekara ta 2000. Ya fara fafatawa a matakin kasa da kasa don kasarsa yana da shekaru 16 kuma ya lashe lambar azurfa ta mita 3000 a gasar zakarun duniya ta matasa a shekarar 2005, inda ya kammala a bayan Abreham Cherkos. A wannan Nuwamba ya yi gasa a Babban Gasar Habasha kuma ya gama na huɗu, yana saita mafi kyawun hanya mai nisan kilomita 10 na 28:45.99. A shekara mai zuwa ya dauki na biyar wuri a cikin matasa tseren a
2006 IAAF World Cross Country Championships, taimaka wa matasa 'yan Habasha, wanda Tariku Bekele ya jagoranta, zuwa lambar azurfa ta tawagar. Nasara a kan waƙar ya biyo baya ba da daɗewa ba lokacin da ya lashe taken Habasha a cikin mita 10,000, ya doke Tadesse Tola, sannan ya lashe zinare a wannan taron a gasar zakarun duniya na matasa na 2006 a wasannin motsa jiki. Ya shiga cikin mita 10,000 a Memorial van Damme a Brussels kuma ya kasance na huɗu a cikin babban filin wasa, yana kafa mafi kyawun matasan duniya na 27:02.81 a cikin tsari.