Belgium's @BashirAbdi7 breaks 20,000m world best during one-hour race in 56:20.02. RELATED: Sifan Hassan breaks one-hour world record by 413 m, He betters @HaileGebr's world one-hour record by 45 metres.#BrusselsDL pic.twitter.com/VbLgaThTaq, — World Athletics (@WorldAthletics) September 4, 2020. At 36 minutes in, they had fallen further behind, and it looked as if the record was slowly slipping from their grasp. He broke 61 national records and set 27 world records. Gebrselassie tips Cheptegei, Kliplimo to run 10,000m under 26 minutes, Monaco DL: Ugandan athlete Joshua Cheptegei targeting 5000m world record, Birthday Special: Joshua Cheptegei's athletics major honours since 2014, Admin suspends three players ahead of epic clash with Gaddafi, How and when to watch Champions League on DStv, Jacob ‘Ghost’ Mulee bounces back for the fifth time to coach Kenya national team, Kitara Football Club promoted to 2020-21 Uganda Premier League, Proudly powered by Newspack by Automattic. Gebrselassie, who enjoyed success breaking 5,000m and 10,000m world records lauded Cheptegei after watching him break Kenenisa Bekele’s record in Monaco. Farah’s final lap was a speedy 63.9 seconds, and his pace works out to 4:31 per mile–for one hour. At his first track race in three years, multiple Olympic and world champion and British record holder Sir Mo Farah set his first world record today at Brussels Diamond League, completing 21.330 kilometres in one hour, 45 metres farther than Haile Gebrselassie’s mark of 21.285 km set in 2007. Since bursting on to the scene as a gifted teenager, winning the 5000m and 10,000m double at the 1992 … In 2010, Gebrselassie announced his retirement to a stunned press corps on the morning that he dropped out of that year's New York City Marathon. Kawowo Sports Media is a division of OWINO SOLUTIONS. Haile Gebrselassie Withdraws From Hamburg Marathon, Haile Gebrselassie Pacing London, Racing Hamburg, Haile Gebrselassie to Enter Ethiopian Politics. You cannot stop running, this is my life," the Ethiopian legend said after finishing 16th, in 30:05, at Sunday's race. In 1987, Said Aouita of Morocco ran 12:58.39 to become the first to break 13:00 for 5000 meters. RELATED: Haile Gebrselassie retires from competitive racing “This year is a very special year and it’s not because I ran,” Gebrselassie says. “It looks like he can run 12:35 for 5,000m. More by Edgar Kazibwe. Please join us! He owns several business in Ethiopia and employs more than 100 people. Gebrselassie was in the vanguard of young East Africans in the early and mid 1990s who dramatically lowered distance world records on the track. Deputy Editor at Kawowo Sports. Mo Farah breaks Haile Gebreselassie’s one-hour world record by 45 metres. I don’t know what is going to be the time in the future.”. He is an aspiring Sport Psychologist. Boasting a near 25-year career, Geb’s longevity at the top is unsurpassed in the modern age. Full results for all today’s races can be found here. He has frequently spoken about getting involved in Ethiopian politics. He won the Berlin Marathon four times consecutively and also had three straight wins at the Dubai Marathon. At the halfway mark, Farah and Abdi were just slightly behind target pace, clearly running only as hard as they knew they must, but doing their best to conserve energy for the second half of the race. Three other men ran national records: third-place finisher Emil Millan de Oliva of Sweden, with 20.128 km, Mohamed Ali of the Netherlands in fifth place with 20.055 km and Abdi Hakin Ulad of Denmark with 19,985 km. It’s amazing to see such wonderful athletes in this generation. Farah’s training partner Bashir Abdi of Belgium, who won the 10,000m at the European championships in 2018 and who finished second at this year’s Tokyo Marathon, stayed close to Farah throughout most of the race, briefly taking the lead in the last five minutes, as if giving his mate a target and temporarily relieving him of the relentless work required to run the distance. Haile Gebrselassie (Amharic: ኃይሌ ገብረ ሥላሴ, haylē gebre silassē; born 18 April 1973) is a retired Ethiopian long-distance track and road running athlete. Until Sunday, he also held the masters world 10K record, but at the Great Manchester Run, Bernard Lagat ran 27:48 to take 12 seconds off of Gebrselassie's masters mark. Farah said the first few months of the pandemic presented many challenges, with his four children unable to attend school and him unable to train as he’d like. His second world record in the marathon, 2:03:59 at the 2008 Berlin Marathon, made him the first under 2:04, and remains the Ethiopian record.
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