Bolt, Bekele vie for top male athlete award
IOL (Free subscription) | yesterday
World and Olympic champions Usain Bolt and Kenenisa Bekele were among five contenders shortlisted for the male Athlete of the Year award.
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Kenenisa Bekele plans to invest his IAAF $333,333 prize in Ethiopia
Ethiopian Review (Free subscription) | 09/13/2009
By Tanya Menoni | Examiner According to Addis Fortune magazine, Ethiopia’s track star Kenenisa Bekele has specific plans on how he will spend his share of the jackpot earned in the IAAF Golden League events. Bekele won all six of his events in the Golden League series, which earned him a $333,333 check. The jackpot is [...]
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Bekele beats Lagat - again
IOL (Free subscription) | 09/12/2009
Ethiopia's Kenenisa Bekele wins the 3000m at World Athletics Final and beats old rival Bernard Lagat.
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Usain Bolt vs Kenenisa Bekele at 700 meters?
Tanvir Kazmi: Running without limit (Free subscription) | 09/04/2009
This could be one of the biggest match ups of two of the biggest starts in world athletics, the 100 and 200 meters world record holder Usain Bolt (twice, Beijing Olympics 2008 and World Athletics Championships 2009), and the kings of long distance running Kenenisa Bekele , the achiever of the double-double of 5000 meters and 10,000 meters, also at the Beijing and World Championships. Bolt thinks he...
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Men vs Women in Running Races
L'Ombre de l'Olivier (Free subscription) | 08/25/2009
One thing that fascinates me now that I'm doing quite a lot of running is the difference between male and female performance. The difference is reasonably consistent across all distances as this table of world recods by distance shows (taken from the IAAF ). Discipline Perf Athlete Perf Athlete Difference% (F/M-1) 100 Metres 9.58 Usain Bolt 10.49 Florence Griffith-Joyner 9.50% 200 Metres 19.19 Usain...
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Kipsiro in Fresh Hunt For Iaaf Jackpot
All Africa (Free subscription) | 06/15/2009
MOSES Kipsiro will renew his rivalry against Ethiopia's Kenenisa Bekele as the IAAF $1m Golden League series begin in Berlin today.
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Isinbayeva kicks-off Golden League chase
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 06/14/2009
• Daniel Bailey wins men's 100m in 10.03 seconds • Ariane Friedrich misses out on high jump record The Russian Olympic champion Yelena Isinbayeva won the women's pole vault competition at the Berlin Golden League meeting, despite a low-kley performance by her standards. Isinbayeva, the world record holder, sealed her win with a jump of 4.83 metres, five centimetres ahead of Monika Pyrek...
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Isinbayeva, Bekele confirm Golden League series start
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 05/14/2009
Monte Carlo - Russian pole vault queen Yelena Isinbayeva and Ethiopian distance running ace Kenenisa Bekele will compete at the Golden League athletics series for a 1-million dollar jackpot. The ruling body IAAF said on Thursday that Isinbayeva and B...
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Ethiopia's Kenenisa to begin comeback in The Netherlands
Ethiopian Review (Free subscription) | 04/23/2009
Hengelo, The Netherlands (IAAF)- Kenenisa Bekele of Ethiopia will make his come back on the track on 1 June during the FBK-Games in Hengelo. The Fanny Blankers-Koen Games is a Grand Prix status meeting as part of the IAAF World Athletics Tour 2009. The announcement follows the meetings news in March that Haile Gebrselassie will be [...]
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Gebregziabher and Genzebe now target Berlin
Ethiopian Review (Free subscription) | 04/07/2009
Sabrina Yohannes | IAAF Gebregziabher Gebremariam’s thrilling sprint victory and Genzebe Dibaba’s repeat junior gold medal at the World Cross Country Championships in Amman were inspired by their absent double Olympic champion compatriots Kenenisa Bekele and Tirunesh Dibaba, albeit in different ways. Gebremariam was fueled by the expectation of the world, and rivals Kenya in particular,...
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Gebremariam claims world title
Champions (Free subscription) | 03/28/2009
Last Updated: March 28 - 04:27 PM Gebre Gebremariam unexpectedly followed in the footsteps of fellow Ethiopian Kenenisa Bekele to win the IAAF World Cross Country title in Amman. Gebremariam pr...