SportsAmanal Petros: From refugee to European champion

Amanal Petros, who fled to Germany as a teenager, won his first major marathon title at the European Athletics Championships in Birmingham. His 2:09:11 finish set a championship record, and he dedicated the gold medal to his mother in Ethiopia’s Tigray region.

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