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IAAF ratifies world records by Geb and Defar

Posted July 30th, 2007 at 12:00 PM by Hariz Siddiqui

Section: News & Results

The IAAF announced today that they had ratified the following world records:

MEN -
20,000m:
56:26.0, Haile Gebrselassie (ETH), Ostrava, CZE, 27-Jun-2007
Previous: 56:55.6 Arturo Barrios (MEX), La Flèche, FRA, 30-Mar-1991

One Hour:
21,285m, Haile Gebrselassie (ETH), Ostrava, CZE, 27-Jun-2007
Previous: 21,101m, Arturo Barrios (MEX), La Flèche, FRA, 30-Mar-1991

WOMEN -
5000m:
14:16.63, Meseret Defar (ETH), Oslo, NOR, 15-Jun-2007
Previous: 14:24.53 Defar, New York, USA, 03-Jun-2006

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One hour world record by Gebrselassie in Ostrava

Posted June 27th, 2007 at 2:49 PM by Bob Ramsak

Section: News & Results

Haile Gebrselassie added two more world records to his illustrious collection at the Golden Spike Grand Prix tonight in Ostrava, Czech Republic.

Knocking off consistent 67 to 68 second laps, the 23-year-old Ethiopian set a new mark in the one hour run, covering 21,285 meters over the course of 60 minutes to break the previous best, 21,101m, set by Mexican Arturo Barrios in La Fléche, France, on March 30, 1991.

“Today is just a fantastic day,” said a beaming Gebrselassie, who said he knew just beyond the half-way point that the record would fall.
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