2016 New York City Marathon

Here Is How To Correctly Spell Ghirmay Ghebreslassie

Here Is How To Correctly Spell Ghirmay Ghebreslassie

It's spelled "Ghirmay Ghebreslassie."

Nov 7, 2016 by Dennis Young
Here Is How To Correctly Spell Ghirmay Ghebreslassie
During yesterday's New York City Marathon, I was manning FloTrack's Twitter account. Eventual men's winner Ghirmay Ghebreslassie spells his name that way, not either of these two ways: 




I feel 1% less stupid about these spelling errors as right now, LetsRun has his name misspelled under their quote of the day. It's Ghirmay (easy enough) Ghebreslassie (remember to put in an H after G, and no E after the first S). He's only 20. I better get this right over the next decade or two. Sorry, Ghirmay.