Kuma Girma
Kuma Girma is an Ethiopian middle- and long-distance runner. He is the African under-20 record holder over 5km on the road.
Career
He was a member of the silver medal-winning Ethiopian team at the 2023 World Cross Country Championships U20 race, finishing 13th individually. He followed that up by placing third in Jakob Ingebrigtsen's two-mile world record race at the 2023 Meeting de Paris in a time of 8:10.34. He set a 5000 m personal best of 13:03.37 at the 2023 Athletissima in Switzerland, to finish seventh overall.In March 2024, he finished fourth at the delayed 2023 African Games in Accra, Ghana. In November 2024, he was runner-up to Jimmy Gressier at the Cross International d'Allonnes in France. In December 2024, he was runner-up to Hagos Gebrhiwet in the 5km race at the Al Sharqiyah International, a World Athletics Elite Label event, in Al Khobar, Saudi Arabia. The time set a new African under-20 record.
On 8 February 2025, Girma won the men's 3000m in 7:31.78 at the Meeting Metz Moselle Athlelor – a World Indoor Tour Silver meeting in Metz, France. He finished runner-up over 5000 metres at the 2025 Shanghai Diamond League event, in a personal best time of 12:50.69, finishing narrowly behind the event winner Berihu Aregawi. He ran a 5000 metres personal best of 12:46.41 at the 2025 Bislett Games, part of the 2025 Diamond League, on 12 June 2025. He was runner-up in the 5000 metres at the 2025 BAUHAUS-galan event in Stockholm, part of the 2025 Diamond League.
In September 2025, he competed over 5000 metres at the 2025 World Championships in Tokyo, Japan, but was unable to complete the race.