Kenenisa Bekele of Ethiopia won the 5,000 and 10,000 metre events at the 2008 Beijing Olympics
Kenenisa Bekele, (born June 13, 1982, near Bekoji, Ethiopia), Ethiopian long-distance runner who won Olympic gold medals in the 10,000 metres in 2004 and in both the 5,000 metres and the 10,000 metres in 2008. He later had success in the marathon.
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Bekele's 5,000m world record stood for 16 years before it was broken by Uganda's Joshua Cheptegei last year, while his 10,000m record stood for 15 before also being broken last year by Cheptegei.
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A fellow athlete said Bekele was unfit and several kilos over his usual weight when arriving in Nijmegen, the Netherlands, for a training camp in the summer. Yet no one can get fit quick quite.
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He also started gaining weight after returning to work, as food became a coping mechanism for the fear he felt during those endless, difficult shifts.. In 2019, Kenenisa Bekele came within two.
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October 7, 2022 at 12:19 PM Kenenisa Bekele's height and weight have been crucial in his marathon success. This man has also been successful due to his intense training method in the Ethiopian hills. In addition to being a long-distance runner, Bekele is also a great entrepreneur. He has been married to an Ethiopian film actress since 2007.
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Three-time Olympic gold medalist Kenenisa Bekele, 41, set a new masters world record of 2:04:19 during the Valencia Marathon on Sunday. Bekele was 20 seconds behind the lead group at the.
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In 2019, Kenenisa Bekele came within two seconds of breaking Eliud Kipchoge's world record. At 39, the Ethiopian champion has come to New York to prove he can still win anywhere. Kenenisa Bekele.
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Described as one of the greatest comebacks in athletics history, Kenenisa Bekele's astonishing victory in September's Berlin Marathon in 2:01:41 - within two seconds of the world record - sent shockwaves through the athletics world.
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History Essays Opinion Running News People How Kenenisa Bekele Trained for His Big Comeback in Berlin Bekele's manager, Jos Hermens, talks candidly about how the champion prepared since May.
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Ethiopia's Kenenisa Bekele is arguably the greatest distance runner of all time, a fact underscored in Berlin's Olympic stadium last summer when he successfully repeated the 5,000m/10,000m.
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Athletics (2020 Pool) It's not easy being Kenenisa Bekele. For nearly 25 years, his name has been synonymous with running. A long journey of pushing himself and setting ambitious yet achievable goals.
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3 x Olympic champion. 5 x World champion. 1 x Olympic Games Silver medallist. 1 x World Indoor champion. More Honours. World Rankings. Personal Bests. Seasons Bests. Results.
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IAAF. BACK. Kenenisa Bekele of Ethiopia destroyed the World outdoor 5000m record at the Thales FBK-Games - IAAF Grand Prix - this evening, adding this prize to the indoor mark he set in Birmingham earlier this year. The World 10,000m champion's time of 12:37.35 bettered Haile Gebrselassie's 12:39.36 which had been set in Helsinki in 1998.
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Kenenisa's outstanding track career led to his involvement in a project to break the two-hour barrier for the marathon, though a number of factors undermined this effort. [14] 2004 season In 2004, he broke the world records for the indoor 5000 m, outdoor 5000 m and outdoor 10,000 m (both in a timeframe of 9 days). [15]
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Bekele retained both titles in 2003 and again in 2004. At the 2003 World Championships of Athletics, Bekele won the 10,000m and finished third in the 5,000m. In the run-up to the Olympic Games in Athens, during a 10-day period, Bekele broke Gebrselassie's world records in both the 10,000m and the 5,000m. Triumph over his idol
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Kenenisa Bekele Beyecha ( Oromo: Qananiisaa baqqalaa; Amharic: แแแแณ แ แแ; born 13 June 1982) is an Ethiopian long-distance runner. He was the world record holder in both the 5000-metre and 10000-metre from 2004 until 2020. He won the gold medal in both the 5000 m and 10,000 m events at the 2008 Summer Olympics.