Kenenisa Bekele Long Distance Runner Profile, Biography, Medals, Career Info
Three-time Olympic gold medalist Kenenisa Bekele, 41, set a new masters world record of 2:04:19 during the Valencia Marathon on Sunday. Bekele was 20 seconds behind the lead group at the.
Kenenisa Bekele of Ethiopia won the 5,000 and 10,000 metre events at the 2008 Beijing Olympics
History Essays Opinion Running News People How Kenenisa Bekele Trained for His Big Comeback in Berlin Bekele's manager, Jos Hermens, talks candidly about how the champion prepared since May.
Kenenisa Bekele Photos Photos The Great North Run Zimbio
Kenenisa Bekele's coach Haji Adelo. The most decorated cross-country runner has an opportunity to right the wrongs from his last 42km race. He pulled out of the 2020 London marathon with injury. Then in 2021 he was again left out of the Ethiopian Olympic squad for Tokyo.
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3 x Olympic champion. 5 x World champion. 1 x Olympic Games Silver medallist. 1 x World Indoor champion. More Honours. World Rankings. Personal Bests. Seasons Bests. Results.
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Bekele's 5,000m world record stood for 16 years before it was broken by Uganda's Joshua Cheptegei last year, while his 10,000m record stood for 15 before also being broken last year by Cheptegei.
Kenenisa Bekele wins BMW Berlin marathon
Kenenisa Bekele crosses the line to win the Berlin Marathon. Bekele is encouraged by the fact his 2016 Berlin victory, in a time of 2:03:03, was history's second fastest ever and just six seconds behind Dennis Kimetto's world record. Considering he only made his debut in 2014 - winning in Paris with a course record of 2:05:04 - there.
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Kenenisa Bekele started out as a football player, but soon switched to running, and is considered among the greatest ever distance runners. The short Ethiopian was seen as the successor to Haile Gebrselassie. Bekele's first successes came in cross-country. From 2002-06, he won both the short and long races at the International Cross-Country.
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Described as one of the greatest comebacks in athletics history, Kenenisa Bekele's astonishing victory in September's Berlin Marathon in 2:01:41 - within two seconds of the world record - sent shockwaves through the athletics world.
Kenenisa Bekele Photos Photos 12th IAAF World Athletics Championships Day Three Zimbio
Kenenisa's outstanding track career led to his involvement in a project to break the two-hour barrier for the marathon, though a number of factors undermined this effort. [14] 2004 season In 2004, he broke the world records for the indoor 5000 m, outdoor 5000 m and outdoor 10,000 m (both in a timeframe of 9 days). [15]
How Kenenisa Bekele Returned To WorldBeating Form Track & Field News
IAAF. BACK. Kenenisa Bekele of Ethiopia destroyed the World outdoor 5000m record at the Thales FBK-Games - IAAF Grand Prix - this evening, adding this prize to the indoor mark he set in Birmingham earlier this year. The World 10,000m champion's time of 12:37.35 bettered Haile Gebrselassie's 12:39.36 which had been set in Helsinki in 1998.
Kenenisa Bekele Biography, Olympic Medals, Marathons, & Facts Britannica
Ethiopia's Kenenisa Bekele is arguably the greatest distance runner of all time, a fact underscored in Berlin's Olympic stadium last summer when he successfully repeated the 5,000m/10,000m.
Kenenisa Bekele targets the World record at BerlinMarathon Athletics News
A fellow athlete said Bekele was unfit and several kilos over his usual weight when arriving in Nijmegen, the Netherlands, for a training camp in the summer. Yet no one can get fit quick quite.
Kenenisa Bekele Photos Photos Virgin Money London Marathon Zimbio
Athletics (2020 Pool) It's not easy being Kenenisa Bekele. For nearly 25 years, his name has been synonymous with running. A long journey of pushing himself and setting ambitious yet achievable goals.
Kenenisa Bekele Goes After Kipchoge’s World Record in Historic UK Clash Uzalendo News
Kenenisa Bekele Beyecha ( Oromo: Qananiisaa baqqalaa; Amharic: ቀነኒሳ በቀለ; born 13 June 1982) is an Ethiopian long-distance runner. He was the world record holder in both the 5000-metre and 10000-metre from 2004 until 2020. He won the gold medal in both the 5000 m and 10,000 m events at the 2008 Summer Olympics.
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He had begun testing young athletes, trying to identify promising talent for an audacious plan: to use science to facilitate a sub-two-hour marathon by 2019, a decade or two sooner than many.
Kenenisa Bekele Photos Photos 12th IAAF World Athletics Championships Day Three Zimbio
In 2019, Kenenisa Bekele came within two seconds of breaking Eliud Kipchoge's world record. At 39, the Ethiopian champion has come to New York to prove he can still win anywhere. Kenenisa Bekele.