🏃 Running · Distance / marathon

Haile Gebrselassie

Ethiopia · 1992–2015

Twenty-seven world records, from 2000 m to the marathon.

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World records: 2
Olympic golds: 4
World titles: 2:03:59
Marathon best

Career

Gebrselassie set world records across an unusually wide range of distances and won the Olympic 10,000 m twice, the second time by nine hundredths of a second. He ran with one arm held slightly crooked, a habit from carrying schoolbooks on a ten-kilometre run to school.

Honours

Twenty-seven world records across distances from 2000 m to the marathon
Olympic 10,000 m champion in 1996 and 2000
Four consecutive World Championship 10,000 m titles
First man under 2:04 for the marathon

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