Kenenisa, after dropping out of the 2011 World Championships and not finishing a
major track final since 2009 returned to centre stage at the 2012 Olympic Games
finishing fourth in the 10,000 metres. In the final, with two laps to go, he was fifth
(see smaller image on pictures above) but managed to snatch fourth place - albeit
way behind his best times of the 2000's, such as his 2005 World record of 26:17.53.
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Men's 10,000m. Final.
2012 London Games.
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| 1. Mo FARAH |
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GBR |
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27:30.42 |
| 2. Galen RUPP |
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USA |
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27:30.90 |
3. Tariku BEKELE
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ETH |
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27:31.43 |
4. Kenenisa BEKELE
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ETH |
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27:32.44 |
5. Bedan Karoki MUCHIRI
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KEN |
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27:32.94 |
6. Zersenay TADESE
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ERI |
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27:33.51 |
| 7. Teklemariam MEDHIN |
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ERI |
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27:34.76 |
8. Gebregziabher GEBREMARIAM
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ETH |
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27:36.34 |
On 6th.April 2014, he produced the sixth fastest marathon debut ever,
on a record-eligible coursE, with his victory at the Paris Marathon, in a
course record time of 2:05:04. On 25 September 2016 Kenenisa won the
Berlin Marathon in a time of 2:03:03, a new personal best, then the
third-fastest marathon of all time. In 2017 he finished 2nd. in the
London marathon 2:05.57. And in 2019 he won the Berlin marathon again
in 2:01:41 (NR), just two seconds slower than the world record set by
Eliud Kipchoge in 2018.
Between 2001 and 2005 Kenensia won twelve World Cross Country Championships.
(Short and long course races in the same year five times.)