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From: Biniam Tekle (biniamt@dehai.org)
Date: Mon Jul 26 2010 - 07:59:35 EDT
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Sunday, 25 July 2010
Tadese to lead the field at Bogota Half Marathon
Bogota, Colombia - The world’s fastest and most successful Half Marathon
runner, Zersenay Tadese of Eritrea, will lead the field at the 2010 Bogota
International Half Marathon, an IAAF Gold Label Road Race, on 1 August in
Bogota, Colombia.
Tadese set the World Half Harathon record of 58:23 in winning the Lisbon
Half Marathon in March this year, and also set a new World 20 km record en
route to that finish. He took 10 seconds off the record previously held by
Olympic Marathon champion Samuel Wanjiru of Kenya. Tadese is undefeated in
four consecutive years of the IAAF Half Marathon and World Road Running
Championships, capturing the 20 km title in Debrecen, Hungary, in 2006, and
the Half Marathon title in Udine, Italy, in 2007, Rio de Janeiro in 2008 and
Birmingham, England in 2009.
Tadese was born in 1982 in Adi Bana, Eritrea and has six siblings. In his
teenage years he pursued a career in professional cycling, but a win in a
local race in 2001 propelled the then 19-year-old into a running career that
has brought him medals on three different surfaces – Track, cross country
and road.
On the track, Tadese has an Olympic bronze medal (10,000m, 2004) and an IAAF
World Athletics Championships silver medal (10,000m, 2009). In Cross Country
he has seven individual medals – four bronze, two silver and one gold from
2007 in Mombasa, Kenya. And on the roads he has the four consecutive
individual gold medals.
The Bogota Half Marathon, an IAAF Gold Label Event, will challenge him with
the city’s 2600m elevation, and a strong international field led by
four-time champion Isaac Macharia of Kenya, whose wins includes the last
three years in a row.
Organisers for the IAAF
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