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Kenenisa Bekele

Bekele at Berlin 2009 Medal record[hide]

Men's athletics Representing Ethiopia Olympic Games 2004 Athens 10,000 m Gold 2008 Beijing 10,000 m Gold 2008 Beijing 5000 m Gold 2004 Athens 5000 m Silver World Championships 2003 Paris 10,000 m Gold 2005 Helsinki 10,000 m Gold 2007 Osaka 10,000 m Gold 2009 Berlin 5000 m Gold 2009 Berlin 10,000 m Gold 2003 Paris 5000 m Bronze World Indoor Championships 2006 Moscow 3000 m Gold African Championships 2006 Bambous 5000 m Gold 2008 Addis Ababa 5000 m Gold All-Africa Games 2003 Abuja 5000 m Gold World Cross Country Championships 2002 Dublin Long race Gold

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2002 Dublin 2003 Lausanne 2003 Lausanne 2004 Brussels 2004 Brussels 2005 Saint-Galmier 2005 Saint-Galmier 2006 Fukuoka 2006 Fukuoka 2008 Edinburgh 2001 Ostend

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Kenenisa Bekele (born 13 June 1982) is an Ethiopian long-distance runner, who holds the world record and Olympic record in both the 5000 metres and 10,000 metres events. He won a double at the 2008 Summer Olympics in these events; he also won the 2004 Olympic title over 10,000 m. He is the most accomplished runner in IAAF World Cross Country Championships history, 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 four times running from 2003 to 2009 (matching Haile Gebrselassie's win streak). Bekele was unbeaten over 10,000 m from his debut in 2003 until 2011, when he failed to finish at the World Championships final. At the 2009 World Championships in Athletics he became the first man to win both 5000 m and 10,000 m title at the same championships. Over 5000 m he has also won an Olympic silver (2004), World Championship bronze (2003), two African Championship titles and one AllAfrica Games gold medal. He also won the 3000 metres title at the World Indoor Championships in 2006. Bekele is one of the greatest distance runners of all time, owning several world records and an array of medals. He is the older brother of Tariku Bekele, also an accomplished world-class distance runner.

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Mohamed "Mo" Farah CBE is a Somali-born British international track and field athlete. He is the current 10,000 metres Olympic and World champion and 5000 metres Olympic, World and European champion. On the track, he generally competes over 5000 m and 10,000 m, but also runs the 3000 metres and occasionally the 1500 metres, over which distance Farah is the British and European record holder. He has expressed a desire to move up to the marathon at some point in the future.[5] Farah holds the European track record for 10,000 m, 1500 m and Two Miles, the British road record for 10,000 m, the British indoor record in the 3000 m, the British track record for 5000 m, the British half-marathon record, and the European indoor record for 5000 m. In July 2010, he won Britain's first-ever men's European gold medal at 10,000 m.[6] Farah followed this with a gold in the 5000 m, becoming the 5th male athlete to complete the long-distance double at the championships and the first British man to do so.[7] At the 2011 World Championships in

Athletics, he won silver in the 10,000 m and gold in the 5000 m.[8] He became double Olympic champion at the 2012 Olympic Games in London, taking gold in both the 5000 and 10,000 metres. In 2013, he also won the double at the 14th IAAF World Championships in Moscow, Russia, taking gold in both the 5000 and 10,000 metres, becoming only the second man in history to win a double victory in both the Olympics and World Championships in the distance events.[9] In addition, Farah competes in cross-country running, where in December 2006 he became European champion in Italy.[10] He also took gold in the 3000 m in both the 2009 and 2011 European Athletics Indoor Championships, in Turin and Paris, respectively. Farah was originally based in London and ran for Newham and Essex Beagles athletics club, training at St Mary's University College, Twickenham's sports facilities in Strawberry Hill from 2001 to 2011. In 2011, he relocated to Portland, Oregon, United States, in order to further his training with coach Alberto Salazar.[2] Farah has won various accolades for his athletic achievements. In 2011, he was voted European Athlete of the Year,[11] and won the prize again in 2012.[12] Farah was also appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2013 New Year Honours for services to athletics.[13