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Sembo Almayew (born 24 January 2005) is an Ethiopian track and field athlete. She was a silver medalist at the 2022 World Athletics U20 Championships in the Women's 3000 metres steeplechase.
Career
2022
Almayew set new world under-18 best times for the 3000m steeplechase in 2022. She beat the previous U18 best of 9:24.73, set by Kenya's Celliphine Chespol in 2016, when she clocked a 9:18.98 at the FBK Games, a World Athletics Continental Tour Gold meeting, in Hengelo.
Almayew then ran 9:09.19 to finish second at the Diamond League meeting in Paris in June 2022 in the 3000m steeplechase to lower her personal best and the world under-18 best time. Competing at the 2022 World Athletics Championships in Eugene, Oregon she ran 9:21.10 to finish fifth in her heat.
She was a silver medalist behind Faith Cherotich at the 2022 World Athletics U20 Championships in the Women's 3000 metres steeplechase.
2023
Almayew ran 9:05.83 to set a new personal best and national under-20 record at the Doha meeting of the Diamond League in May 2023, finishing second behind Kenyan Beatrice Chepkoech. The following month Almayew set a new personal best and meeting record time of 9:00.71 to win the 3000m steeplechase at the Diamond League meeting in Florence on 2 June 2023. Competing in the 3000m steeplechase at the 2023 World Athletics Championships in Budapest, she qualified for the final, finishing second in her heat. In the final she finished in thirteenth place.