Khairi Bejiga

Khairi Bejiga is an Ethiopian long-distance runner. He set the Ethiopian best under-20 time in the 10K run whilst competing in 2025.

Career

Bejiga finished eleventh over 5000 metres on 16 May at the 2025 Doha Diamond League. Competing at the Meeting Nikaia, a World Athletics Continental Tour Bronze meeting on 31 May 2025, he finished runner-up behind Eritrea’s Saymon Amanuel, but ahead of Niels Laros, running 13:06.95. in Nice, France. The following month, he lowered his personal best for the distance at the Paavo Nurmi Games in Turku to 13:06.53.
On his debut 10km road race, he won the tRUNsylvania 10K – a World Athletics Elite Label road race in Brasov, Romania in October 2025. His winning time of 26:54 equalled the fastest ever debut over the distance, equalling the time of Sabastian Sawe from 2022, and placed second fastest on the all-time U20 list. He was also only 3 seconds outside the course record held by Nicholas Kimeli.
On 11 January 2026, he placed second over 10km in Valencia behind Andreas Almgren, running a personal best 26:52.