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

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

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

year he broke his first world record, the 5000m, in Hengelo, near his European base in the Netherlands. Again, he didn’t win all his races that year, but by 1995 the aura of invincibility really tookhold. Meanwhile, Tergat was making steady progress

Most top track middle-distance runners tend to reach their peak between their fourth and seventh race of the season, and track world records are more likely to be set in July than May. For them, the best way of training is to race the distance

to go. He won, clocking a British and European indoor 5000m record of 13:10.60 in the process. Plan aheadAccording to Farah, it was his adherence to a pacing plan that put him in a position to make history: "We had a plan going into the race. We wanted

, 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

to go. He won, clocking a British and European indoor 5000m record of 13:10.60 in the process. Plan aheadAccording to Farah, it was his adherence to a pacing plan that put him in a position to make history: "We had a plan going into the race. We

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

at that stage both he and his father/coach Peter thought he was destined to be a 5000m runner. Then in mid 1976, Coe had a major breakthrough at a minor athletics outpost, taking three seconds off his 800m best to run 1:47.7 in a British Milers’ Club race