The world record
He was born and brought up in a farm. He runs to school with distance of 10km and back another 10km to home.
He started his international arena in 1993 and won 4 back to back world championship. He took part in 3 Olympic Games and finally retired from the track on 2004.
When people thought he would go for coaching or seting up business after his retirement, he shocked everyone by saying that he is going to compete in road races. he started competing in Marathons in cities such as Amsterdam, Berlin, London, New York.
He has won 4 back to back Berlin Marathons and 3 back to back Dubai marathons.
At the age of 35, he still made everyone to take bite their words by cracking the world record for marathon with the time of 2:03:59.
Yesterday, he officially announced that he is retiring from the games after pulling out from New York marathon at middle point. Whatever it its, at age of 35 he was still breaking record and compeeting at world class level, when most athletes would have announced their retirement and spend time with family.
His achievements:
Olympic Games (1996 & 2000) - 2 Gold medals (10,000M)
World Championship (93,95, 97,99) - 4 Gold medals (10,000M)
World Indoor Championship (97,99,2003) - 4 Gold medals (3000M /1500M)
Men Track&Field Athlete of the year - 1995 & 1998
His quotes:
"I will always listen to my coaches. But first I listen to my body. If what they tell me suits my body, great. If my body doesn't feel good with what they say, then always my body comes first. "
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