Tariku Novales

Tariku Noval, was born in Jijiga (Ethiopia) in 1998. With 6 years he was adopted by two AMES teachers (Galicia). In just a few months, Galician and Castilian spoke perfectly.

Currently, Tariku You can feel proud of having made history in Spanish sport: He beat the record of Spain in Marathon in December 2023, going down from 2 hours and 6 minutes, in Valencia, something he has done win a position to participate in the JJ.OO. from Paris 2024.

The life of Tariku Novales has not been simple. But thanks to being effort and dedication, it has been getting a place in athletics, one of the most demanding sports that exist.

History of overcoming

Tariku's story excites, since he is a fighter since his origins in Ethiopia.

With five or six years It was adopted by a Galician family from a municipality of 31,278 inhabitants. Noval adapted very fast to life in Galicia. He feels very proud to be Spanish and Galician.

His beginnings as a professional athlete was in the Noia Athletics Club, thanks to a co -worker of his mother. From that moment, he began to participate in different northern competitions.

Tariku returned to Ethiopia to meet his origins

With 23 years he traveled to Ethiopia, because I wanted to know more about the place where it came from. What he discovered, affected him emotionally. But, once assimilated the information he found about his family and childhood, He returned in 2021 to train.

In that country, He redirected his sports career thanks to his team and also, because he surrounded himself with the elite of Athiopia athleticsAs he says, "they helped him find his motivation."

Since that year, the connection with its roots, altitude or food have been key to train in the African country: "Of the most differential aspects is the philosophy of the athletes from there, because you unlock many mental barriers of how many kilometers you can shoot, the intensity of a long run ... and then there is food, everything comes from earth and the animal to the plate, there are no ultra prosecuted or saturated fats that abound here."