Paul Tergat
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Paul Kibii Tergat is a Kenyan former professional long-distance runner. He became the first Kenyan man to set the world record in the marathon in 2003, with a time of 2:04:55, and is regarded as one o
Paul Tergat at the 2026 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, Scotland
Tergat setting a new world record to the marathon at Berlin, 2003.
Tergat, Josette Sheeran Shiner and Drew Barrymore meet with Condoleezza Rice
Tergat in his function as IOC member at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics
Abebe Bikila
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Shambel Abebe Bikila was an Ethiopian marathon runner who was a back-to-back Olympic marathon champion. He was the first Ethiopian Olympic gold medalist, winning his first gold medal at the 1960 Summe
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…the first Kenyan male winner. In his acceptance he said "The history of marathon running is incomplete without the solid and indelible mark of the late Abebe Bikila's contribution, and I am so proud to be associated [with this]". 1995 Gold medal, 1995 IAAF World Cross Country Championships Bronze medal, 1995 World…
Bikila in 1968
Abebe with wife Yewebdar and one of their children
Abebe (#11), following Bertie Messitt (#58), Bakir Benaïssa, Arthur Keily (#46), Aurèle Vandendriessche (#36), and Rhadi Ben Abdesselam (#185)
Moving away from Ben Abdesselam