![]() ![]() ![]() “So this tells everyone: it doesn’t matter if I win a marathon 10 times or 20 times, how many athletes can run this time? Of course I’m not perfect. I am second overall behind Eliud Kipchoge. But, on the other hand, my marathon times also tell you something. “Somehow I failed with some marathon races. “With the marathon I couldn’t achieve what everybody hoped,” he added. But what I did in world championships, Olympics, cross countrys and the world records – for those competitions of course I am the best. However even now the legendary Ethiopian remains the second quickest athlete ever over 5,000m, 10,000m and the marathon.Īsked about whether Kipchoge’s 2hr 1min 9sec run in Berlin made the Kenyan the greatest, Bekele replied: “From my side, I don’t want to put in myself. During his storied career, Bekele has won an extraordinary three Olympic gold medals, 17 world titles over cross-country, track and road, and held the world 5,000m and 10,000m records for 15 and 16 years respectively – until the arrival of “super spikes” allowed Ugandan Joshua Cheptegei to finally break them in 2020. ![]()
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