Kammala wannan jumla: Zersenay ya kasa yin podium a karo na biyu a gasar
2006 Gasar Cin Kofin Duniya, amma matsayinsa na huɗu ya jagoranci ƙungiyar Eritrea zuwa lambar azurfa a gasar ƙungiya. A watan da ya biyo baya, Zersenay ya shawo kan Fabiano Joseph da Boniface Kiprop don lashe Babban Gidan Manchester. Ya yi tsere zuwa layin gamawa tare da lokacin gamawa na 27:36; rikodin Eritrea kuma na biyu mafi sauri a wannan shekarar. A watan Agusta na wannan shekarar, ya inganta mafi kyawun sa na mita 10,000 a Memorial Van Damme; lokacinsa na 26:37.25 ya buga kusan dakika talatin daga alamar da ya gabata don sanya shi mutum na 8 mafi sauri a kowane lokaci, amma har yanzu ya gama a bayan sabon Micah Kogo wanda ya gudu na goma mafi sauri a kowane lokaci. Sabon mafi kyawun 59:16 na Zersenay a Rotterdam Half Marathon ya daidaita rikodin hanyar Samuel Wanjiru kuma ya yi kyau ga tseren gasar zakarun da ke tafe.