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    Kenenisa Bekele

    Ethiopian long-distance runner (born 1982)

    This is an Ethiopian name. The last name is a patronymic, not a family name; this person is referred to by the given name Kenenisa.

    Kenenisa Bekele Beyecha[4] (Oromo: Qananiisaa baqqalaa; Amharic: ቀነኒሳ በቀለ; born 13 June 1982) is an Ethiopian long-distance runner. He was the world record holder in both the 5,000-metre and 10,000-metre from 2004 until 2020. He won the gold medal in both the 5,000 m and 10,000 m events at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. At the 2004 Olympics, he won the gold medal in the 10,000 m and the silver medal in the 5,000 m.

    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. He won the 10,000 m title at the World Championships in Athletics in 2003, 2005, 2007 and 2009 (matching Haile Gebrselassie's four in a row win streak). Kenenisa was unbeaten over 10,000 m fro

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    5000 metres world record progression

    Time Athlete Date Location 14:36.6 Hannes Kolehmainen (FIN)1912-07-10 Stockholm, Sweden[1]14:35.4 Paavo Nurmi (FIN)1922-09-12 Stockholm, Sweden[1]14:28.2 Paavo Nurmi (FIN)1924-06-19 Helsinki, Finland[1]14:17.0 Lauri Lehtinen (FIN)1932-06-19 Helsinki, Finland[1]14:08.8 Taisto Mäki (FIN)1939-06-16 Helsinki, Finland[1]13:58.2 Gunder Hägg (SWE)1942-09-20 Gothenburg, Sweden[1]13:57.2 Emil Zátopek (TCH)1954-05-30 Paris, France[1]13:56.6 Vladimir Kuts (URS)1954-08-29 Bern, Switzerland[1]13:51.6 Chris Chataway (GBR)1954-10-13 London, United Kingdom[1]13:51.2 Vladimir Kuts (URS)1954-10-23 Prague, Czechoslovakia[1]13:50.8

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    Meet Kenenisa

    During this period of unprecedented distance dominance, he smashed six world records and had world record marks for the 5000m (12:37.35) and 10,000m (26:17.53).

    In more recent times, Kenenisa has switched his focus towards the marathon and after an impressive debut over the distance in Paris, when he set a course record 2:05:03, he has continued to impress. In 2016 he scalped two minutes from his lifetime best to set an Ethiopian record of 2:03:03 to climb, at that time, to number two all-time. Kenenisa endured a challenging couple of seasons with injury but bounced back to his vintage best at the 2019 Berlin Marathon. There he produced a performance to stun the friidrott world bygd winning in a time of 2:01:41 – a tantalising two seconds shy of Eliud Kipchoge’s world record.

    Kenenisa opened his competitive 2020 campaign with victory in a course record time of 60:22 at the Vitality Big Half in London.

    He returned to action for the 2021 Berlin Marathon, f