| Rank | Event | Year | Location | Result |
| Olympic Games | ||||
| 5 | 1500m | 2008 | Beijing, CHN | 4:02.71 |
| World Championships | ||||
| 1 | 1500m | 2009 | Berlin, GER | 4:03.74 |
| 1 | 1500m | 2007 | Osaka, JPN | 3:58.75 |
| 12 | 1500m | 2011 | Daegu, KOR | 4:22.67 |
| Asian Games | ||||
| 1 | 1500m | 2010 | Guangzhou, CHN | 4:08.22 |
| 6 | 800m | 2010 | Guangzhou, CHN | 2:06.07 |
| Diamond League | ||||
| 1 | 1500m | 2011 | Monaco, MON | 4:00.59 |
| 1 | 1500m | 2011 | Rome, ITA | 4:01.60 |
| 2 | 3000m | 2010 | Monaco, MON | 8:29.20 |
| 3 | 1500m | 2011 | Brussels, BEL | 4:01.40 |
| 3 | 1500m | 2011 | Birmingham, GBR | 4:06.39 |
| 8 | 800m | 2010 | Eugene, OR, USA | 1:59.89 |
| 8 | 1500m | 2010 | Stockholm, SWE | 4:03.29 |
| Golden League | ||||
| 1 | 1500m | 2009 | Zurich, SUI | 3:59.15 |
| 1 | 1500m | 2009 | Rome, ITA | 3:56.55 |
| 2 | 800m | 2008 | Zurich, SUI | 1:57.80 |
| World Challenge | ||||
| 1 | 1500m | 2011 | Hengelo, NED | 4:00.33 |
| 1 | 1500m | 2010 | Rieti, ITA | 3:58.93 |
| Super Grand Prix | ||||
| 1 | 1500m | 2009 | Monaco, MON | 3:58.83 |
| 1 | 1500m | 2008 | Lausanne, SUI | 3:59.84 |
| 2 | 1500m | 2009 | Lausanne, SUI | 4:01.99 |
| Grand Prix | ||||
| 1 | 800m | 2009 | Hengelo, NED | 1:59.98 |
| 1 | 1500m | 2009 | Athens, GRE | 3:58.72 |
| 2 | 1500m | 2009 | Rieti, ITA | 4:01.29 |
| 2 | 2000m | 2009 | Eugene, OR, USA | 5:31.88 |
| 2 | Mile | 2008 | Rieti, ITA | 4:19.50 |
| World Cross Country Championships | ||||
| 4 | Team Cross Country Long Distance | 2011 | Punta Umbria, ESP | 87 |
| 9 | Individual Cross Country Long Distance | 2009 | Amman, JOR | 27:00 |
Hobbies
Watching football, especially English club Arsenal. (IAAF, 28 Apr 2006)
Family
Husband Tareq Sabt Hasan.
Club name
Stade Lausanne, Lausanne, SUI
Coach
Tareq Sabt Hasan [husband] (BRN) from 2007 (iaaf.org, 11 Sep 2009)
Other sports
Her husband Tareq Sabt Hasan formerly competed for Ethiopia as Mnashu Taye. (IAAF, 19 Jul 2005)
Additional information
Start of sporting career
As a young child she walked 16km to school each day and sometimes had to run if she was late. She began running seriously at age 15, in the same Ethiopian village where Haile Gebrselassie started out. (iaaf.org, 11 Sep 2009)
Reason for taking up this sport
"Like all boys and girls from Arsi, I wanted to emulate Gebrselassie." (iaaf.org, 11 Sep 2009)
Hero
Haile Gebrselassie, Ethiopian long-distance track and road running athlete. (iaaf.org, 11 Sep 2009)
General
FROM ETHIOPIA TO BAHRAIN
After catching the eye of a Switzerland-based manager at the Ethiopian National Junior Championships in 2002, she was invited to Switzerland to take part in a few races. Fearing that her relatively wealthy ethnic group, the Oromo, would be further exploited by the Ethiopian Government and that she wouldn't be allowed to travel abroad again if she returned home, she stayed in Switzerland and sought political asylum in May 2002, settling in Lausanne. As her refugee status prevented her competing outside Switzerland, she and her husband - in association with Lausanne's Athletissima director Jacky Delapierre - applied to get citizenship with four other countries - France, Turkey, Canada and Bahrain. Bahrain proposed a citizenship change that would free her up for competition on the grounds that she changed her name. She became Maryam Yusuf Jamal in January 2005. (Bloomberg.com, 07 Jul 2008)
Previous Olympics
Beijing 2008
