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This record attempt was successful as Haile passed the hour mark at 21,285 metres (13 miles 397 yards), eclipsing the previous best of 21,101 metres, set by Mexican Arturo Barrios in La Flèche, France, on 30 March 1991.
Although many of Gebrselassie’s records have been surpassed over the years, his 20,000m and one hour marks still stand as world records.
- Taylor Dutch
Oct 24, 2008 · On September 28, Gebrselassie set his 24th career world record with a stunning 2:03:59 at the Berlin Marathon, shattering his own record and backing up the claim that he's the greatest distance...
- First Record Dates Back to 1904
- Nurmi and Zatopek Turn Their Turns
- Baillie and Clarke Take The Record to Oceania
- Hermens and Born to Run
- Gebrselassie Leaves His Mark
The genesis of the record can be traced back to 1904 when Alfred Shrubb became the event’s first official world record holder. The diminutive Englishman was the finest distance runner of his generation, posting 28 world records over distances from 2000m to the one hour. Yet one of his finest achievements came in November 1904 at Ibrox Park in Glasg...
Bouin’s world record was to remain intact for 15 years until one of the greatest distance runners in history, Paavo Nurmi, secured the record in Berlin in 1928. Just two months earlier, the 'Flying Finn' had snared his ninth and final Olympic gold medal over 10,000m at the Amsterdam Games and he followed this up by pushing the world one-hour record...
Baillie, who went on to finish sixth in the 5000m at the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, was part of a group of world-class Kiwis thriving under the pioneering coaching of Arthur Lydiard and achieved one of the greatest moments of his career by completing 20,190m in Auckland in one hour. Two years later the record moved west across the Tasman Sea as Australia...
In 1975 it was the turn of rising Dutch distance runner Jos Hermens to target the record. Hermens had shown a rapid improvement since adopting the training model of Lydiard some three years earlier and in 1975 he was in the best form of his life. Running a gruelling 200 miles a week – which sometimes entailed training four times a day – Baillie had...
In 2007 Ethiopian great and two-time Olympic 10,000m champion Haile Gebrselassie rolled back the years and become the 11thand most recent one-hour standard bearer. Five years earlier, Gebrselassie had attempted the mark in Hengelo only for a calf injury to force him off the track 39 minutes into the run. But in Ostrava’s Mestsky Stadium, in what wa...
Jul 1, 2007 · Remember, friends, that Haile had made it to 39 laps two years ago when he dropped out with cramps. But that was not to happen this night. Gebrselassie hit the 20,000 meter mark 30 seconds ahead of Barrios’ run, 56:20 and the rest was history. The hour run is a tough event.
Feb 25, 2011 · He wakes up at 5:30a.m daily for a three-hour rigorous morning training session. And two months before a competition, he does about 35km for the morning session.
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Sep 26, 2024 · Then, on 27 June 2007, Haile launched an attack upon the world record for the one hour run, in Ostrava, Czech Republic. This record attempt was successful as Haile passed the hour mark at 21,285 metres (13 miles 397 yards), eclipsing the previous best of 21,101 metres, set by Mexican Arturo Barrios in La Flèche , France, on 30 March 1991.
