Sisay Lemma Kasaye (born 12 December 1990) is an Ethiopian long-distance runner.^[1]

Sisay Lemma began his running career at 17 and initially competed barefoot due to a lack of running shoes.^[2]

In 2012, he won the Maratona d'Italia. In 2013, he was fifth in the Tiberias Marathon, won the Orlen Warsaw Marathon and finished fourth at the Eindhoven Marathon.^[3]

In 2015, he was fifth at the Dubai Marathon in January in 2:07:06, won the Vienna City Marathon^[4] in April in 2:07:31 and the Frankfurt Marathon in October where he ran a personal best of 2:06:26.^[5][6]

In 2016 he improved his best to 2:05:16 at the Dubai Marathon where he finished fourth.

In 2017, he was third at the Dubai Marathon in January and fourth at the Chicago Marathon in October, but he did not finish the Boston Marathon in April.

In 2018, he began the season with a fifth-place finish at the Dubai Marathon on 26 January, a personal best of 2:04:08. In October, he broke the Ljubljana Marathon record with a time of 2:04:58.^[7]

He finished third at the 2019 Berlin Marathon, improving his personal best to 2:03:36.

In 2020, he finished third at the Tokyo Marathon on 1 March in 2:04:51.

At the 2020 London Marathon, he finished in third place at 2.05:45.

Sisay won the 2021 London Marathon in a time of 2.04.01.^[8]

In 2023, he won and set the course record for the Valencia Marathon at 2:01:48, becoming the 4th man to run under 2:02 clocking. ^[9][10]

Sisay won the 2024 Boston Marathon at 2:06:17.^[11] He led the race from wire-to-wire, finishing 41 seconds ahead of the 2nd-place finisher Mohamed Esa (2:06:58.)^[12]

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