Gebrselassie the running legend he is today.Over one of the most successful running careers of all time, Gebrselassie amassed 27 world records, two Olympic medals and eight world titles. We've trawled the archives to find some of the career highs and lows faced
the British 10,000m record for the second time, the world watched in awe on June 4, as he crushed his opponents at the Diamond League meeting in Eugene, Oregon, shaving a whopping 40 seconds off his PB and setting a new European 10,000m record (26:46:57).Mo
street shoes - and pulled off a time of 2:48.The supremely versatile Ethiopian has since conquered distances from 1500m to the marathon and has notched up 27 world records as well as a huge haul of World Championship medals. Gebrselassie also has two
me on a bus back to Arsela, but the bus stopped several kilometres from my village, and I had to walk. I don’t know how I did it.”Those of us who have seen him rack up the victories, medals and world records since that novice excursion have got a
to bed. Turns out it wasn’t even ’is ’ouse. T’were ’is next door neighbours, like. To make things worse, he were sick on their cat.”“Aye. He ran a crackin’ race next day though. Knocked three seconds of t’ Commonwealth 10,000m record, as I recall
of a modest genius whose every contorted breath helped push him to places others dared not go.At the moment of his greatest triumph, though, he was as relaxed as the world had ever seen him. For the last five miles of the Olympic marathon in Helsinki
the British record. That record stood for 28 years and at the time Moorcroft set it, it was a world record too. That just shows you how much athletics has moved forward.Q. How much more do you want to shave off that record?A. Hopefully I can go faster, but I
, including the Grandpri Hotel where we meet. We’re here for a marathon master class from one of Kenyan’s best-loved runners and the first man to ever run under 60 minutes for a half-marathon. He set the record in 1993. “You compete with yourself
Long days, warm weather and road races on any given weekend – it's enough to make a runner giddy. But before you wallpaper your garage with race numbers, consider the race strategy of Kenenisa Bekele, the current world record holder in the 5,000m
be a slow pace or it could be at world record pace. Position is more important than time.I can definitely run a lot faster than I did in Berlin. In Berlin I was running on my own for the last half of the race. I’d like to think I can run 2:07-8.The
