

Photo: Valeriy Shustov, RIA Novosti archive, image #585168, 1 August 1980, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped from the original · Wikimedia Commons file 'RIAN archive 585168 5,000m race.jpg': RIA Novosti archive photograph by Valeriy Shustov of the 5,000 m race at the Moscow Olympics, 1 August 1980, in which the caption identifies the runner wearing bib 191 as Miruts Yifter; original 1024 x 676 pixels, cropped by this project to the runner wearing 191 (210 x 300 pixels), never enlarged · CC BY-SA 3.0
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미루츠 이프테르
1944–2016
주요 업적 분야
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핵심 특성
주요 업적
1980년 모스크바 올림픽에서 결승선 약 300m 전에 스퍼트를 시작하는 전략으로 5,000m와 10,000m를 모두 석권했고, 이 때문에 '변속기 이프테르'라는 별명을 얻었다.
1972년 뮌헨 올림픽 10,000m에서 동메달을 땄고, 아프리카 경기 대회와 첫 아프리카 선수권에서 우승했으며, 1977년과 1979년 IAAF 월드컵에서 5,000m와 10,000m를 모두 석권했다.
모스크바에서의 경주를 지켜본 하일레 게브르셀라시에를 비롯한 에티오피아 장거리 선수들에게 영감을 주었고, 은퇴 후에는 에티오피아와 캐나다에서 선수들을 지도했다.
삶의 장면들
모스크바 5,000m 결승에서 마지막 바퀴에 갇혀 있다가 동료가 뒤쪽 직선로에서 비켜 주자 약 300m를 남기고 스퍼트를 시작해 마지막 200m를 27.2초에 달렸다.
이는 즉흥적으로 달리기보다 미리 연습해 둔 작전을 실행하는 모습과 일치한다. 계획 지향
1971년 노스캐롤라이나에서 열린 미국 대 아프리카 대회에서 그는 스티브 프리폰테인을 상대로 한 바퀴 일찍 스퍼트를 시작했고, 이튿날에는 10,000m에서 프랭크 쇼터를 이겼다.
이는 지칠 위험이 있어도 긴 스퍼트에 나서는 성향과 일치한다. 위험 감수
전환점
에티오피아가 1976년 몬트리올 올림픽 보이콧에 동참해 올림픽에 나서지 못한 뒤에도 그는 1977년과 1979년 IAAF 월드컵에서 5,000m와 10,000m를 석권했고, 이어 1980년 올림픽에서도 두 종목을 석권했다.
이는 올림픽 불참 이후에도 정상급 경쟁을 이어 간 모습과 일치한다. 끈기
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- Miruts Yifter (Q225913), verified live via the Wikidata API (2026-11-01): label 'Miruts Yifter', description 'Ethiopian long distance runner', born 1944-05-15, died 2016-12-22, Korean label present. Orientation only; not used as support for any row.
- Olympedia, 'Miruts Yifter' athlete biography and results, read in full: his talent was noticed after he joined the Ethiopian Air Force (following factory work and carriage driving); 1972 Munich 10,000 m bronze and a missed 5,000 m after arriving late; the 1976 boycott; 1980 Moscow 5,000 m and 10,000 m gold; 1973 All-African Games 10,000 m gold and 5,000 m silver; both distances at the 1979 African Championships; Ethiopia's team gold at the 1982 and 1983 cross-country championships; later emigration to Canada and coaching; birth date 15 May 1944 from his passport, with 1938 also seen and an age-dispute listing. CANONICAL SIGNIFICANCE SOURCE: the standard Olympic results archive. Concise and factual.
- Jason Henderson, 'Winner of Moscow Olympics distance double passes away', Athletics Weekly (23 December 2016, updated 2025), read in full: obituary with the Moscow 10,000 m (27:42.69, final 200 m in 26.8) and 5,000 m (13:20.91, final 200 m in 27.2, a teammate stepping aside on the back straight), the 300 m kick, his 1971 United States v Africa matches, the 1972 Munich bronze and the unexplained missed 5,000 m heat, four World Cup wins, a 62:57 half-marathon best in 1977, team cross-country golds and his later coaching, and that his birth year is reported anywhere from 1938 to 1944. Independent athletics press; a tribute, so favourable.
- Bob Ramsak, 'Miruts Yifter, Moscow double winner and one of Ethiopia's greatest athletes, has died' (IAAF tribute, December 2016, republished on RunBlogRun), read in full: results including the 1977 and 1979 World Cup doubles, his habit of surging and slowing to confuse opponents, practising a move with 300 m to go, Haile Gebrselassie's tribute, and his coaching in Ethiopia and Canada. The page also carries a separate unsourced commentary about his treatment after 1972 and his age, which was not used. Written by a friend and long-time federation writer, so admiring.
- Elshadai Negash, 'Miruts Yifter - Bekele reminds me of myself', IAAF (World Athletics), 14 August 2004, read in full: an interview with Yifter at the Ethiopian team base before the Athens Games, in which he describes practising the 300 m kick for Moscow and watching rivals until five laps remained, rejects rumours of drug use, and talks about coaching. Self-report in his own words, relayed by the federation's writer; the claims about his jailing and defection in it were not used.
- Len Johnson, 'The day I beat Yifter', Runner's Tribe (13 January 2017), read in full: a rival-runner's column by a former Melbourne Age athletics writer who raced Yifter at a Finnish half-marathon; describes how Yifter held his kick until the last 300 m at Moscow, his 1979 World Cup 10,000 m win by 40-50 m after sitting behind Craig Virgin, the 1981 World Cross Country race in which he sprinted a lap early, a list of rivals beaten by his finish, and that his birth year is uncertain. Independent first-person observer; anecdotal and affectionate but not fawning.
- Jeff Benjamin, 'Craig Virgin reflects on Miruts Yifter', RunBlogRun (January 2017), read in full: American distance runner Craig Virgin, who raced Yifter in the 1979 World Cup, says he coined the nickname 'Yifter the Shifter', that rivals felt no tactic could stop him, and that the 1980 boycott kept the two from meeting at Moscow. A rival's retrospective praise in a short interview piece; no race detail.
