http://hd.se/sport/2013/07/17/sverige-kan-fa-en-stjarna-till-vm/
Sweden may get a star for World Cup
ATHLETICS Published July 17, 2013 at. 15:14
1,500-meter runner Meraf Bahta, contestants for Eritrea could be Swedish at the World Athletics Championships in Moscow. It states Radiosporten. Athletics Association has sent a letter to the Migration Board to speed up the process, but it is in a hurry if she'll have time to be Swedish in time.
Bahta have received asylum in Sweden, and an application for citizenship was sent in January. In Sweden she's competing for the club Hälle IF Ljungskile.
This weekend she ran at 4.05,11 - a time that would have been enough to the finals of the last world championship.
If the application were to go through, she superstar Abeba Aregawi companion, who previously competed for Ethiopia but now for Sweden, said Radiosporten.
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