He said the issues thrown up by coronavirus in general had made a greater impact. One of athletics' finest long-distance runners, Bekele has surprisingly missed the last two Olympic Games after not being picked by the Ethiopian Athletics Federation.
Bekele and the federation have not seen eye-to-eye on its recent selection process and so has been overlooked for the marathon despite being the second fastest man ever over the distance. In , Bekele ran a time - in Berlin - just two seconds slower than the record tset by Kipchoge, also in the German capital, the previous year.
Even if I want to go to Paris, I don't know their criteria again so it's going to be difficult. At the Olympics he won the gold medal in the 10, m and the silver medal in the m. He has faced fellow Ethiopian, Haile Gebrselassie, twice in road competition, once in cross country, and six times on the track. Five months later, in August , he set a new metres world junior record, The record lasted for three and a half years, being broken by Augustine Choge with a run of For five years in a row, from at the age of 19 through , he took both short 4 k m and long 12 k m races at the IAAF World Cross Country Championships, a feat no other runner has accomplished even once.
In , he broke the world records for the indoor m, outdoor m and outdoor 10, m both in a timeframe of 9 days. Ranked on the list of most popular Runner. Also ranked in the elit list of famous celebrity born in Ethiopia.
Kenenisa Bekele celebrates birthday on June 13 of every year. He is the most successful runner in the history of the IAAF World Cross Country Championships, with six long 12 km course and five short 4 km course titles.
Kenenisa was unbeaten over 10, m from his debut in until , when he failed to finish at the World Championships final. On 26 August , Kenenisa set the current 10, m world record The race saw 6 runners finishing in less than 27 minutes, with Sammy Wanjiru dipping in On 8 August , Kenenisa Bekele won the gold medal in the 10, m at the World Championships in Helsinki with a stunning last m spurt.
He won on the short course despite a fast pace set by Qatari Saif Saaeed Shaheen, and followed that win with a long course victory the next day over Eritrean Zersenay Tadese and Kenyan rival Eliud Kipchoge. Kenenisa Bekele Birthday Countdown 0 0 0. He married Danawit Gebregziabher and has a sister Tariku. He won the 10, m title at the World Championships in Athletics in , , and matching Haile Gebrselassie's four in a row win streak. Kenenisa was unbeaten over 10, m from his debut in until , when he failed to finish at the World Championships final.
At the World Championships in Athletics he became the first man to win both m and 10, m title at the same championships. Over m he has also won an Olympic silver , World Championship bronze , two African Championship titles and one All-Africa Games gold medal. He also won the meters title at the World Indoor Championships.
On 6 April , he produced the sixth fastest marathon debut ever on a record-eligible course with his victory at the Paris Marathon, in a course record time of On 25 September , Kenenisa won the Berlin Marathon in a time of , a new personal best, then the third-fastest marathon of all time. On 29 September , he again won the Berlin Marathon in a time of , two seconds slower than the world record of set by Eliud Kipchoge in the Berlin Marathon. Considering his accomplishments in cross country, track, and road racing, he is considered to be the greatest distance runner of all time.
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