Archive for the 'Haile Gebrselassie' Category

Haile Gebrselassie sets new marathon world record in Berlin

Sunday, September 30th, 2007

Haile Gebrselassie is amazing and his new marathon world record is not a surprise to anyone who has been following his career. He has been shooting for it for quite some time now and finally he has taken it from Paul Tergat. Today he won the Real Berlin Marathon in 2 hours 4 minutes 26 [...]

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Haile Gebrselassie sets new one hour world record

Wednesday, June 27th, 2007

Haile Gebrselassie has set a new one hour running world record in IAAF Grand Prix Golden Spike meeting in Ostrava, Czech Republic. He has covered the amazing distance of 21.285 meters.

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New half-marathon world record (Sammy Wanjiru 58:53)

Saturday, February 10th, 2007

Yesterday (9th February, 2007) it paid off for Ras al-Khaimah a small part of UAE, to offer a prize purse of 155.000 USD for a half-marathon. It has been all over the news for last 48 hours since Sammy Wanjiru (Kenya) reclaimed his half-marathon world record winning Ras al-Khaimah International Half-marathon. He covered the 21.1km [...]

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