Haile Gebrselassie

Haile GebreSelassie (born April 18, 1973) is a long distance track and road running athlete born as one of ten children in Asella, Arsi, Ethiopia. He is considered by many to be one of the best distance runners of all time. His prodigious distance running ability may have resulted in part from the high elevation of his home village: 8,000 feet above sea level.

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The tone for his prodigiously successful career was set early: according to his biography on the International Olympic Committee website, as a child growing up on a farm in Ethiopia he used to run ten kilometres to school every morning, and the same back every evening. This led to a distinctive running posture, with his left arm crooked as if still holding his schoolbooks.

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1973: 1973 was a common year starting on Monday....

Road running: Road running or road racing is the sport of running on a measured course over an established road (as opposed to track and cross country running). Such a race is called a road race. Road racing offers competitors a variety of challenges to overcome such as hills, sharp bends, varied pavement, incl...

Asella: Asellais a city in the Oromia region of Ethiopia. It is located at latitude 7? 57' north and longitude 39? 7', with an elevation of 2430 meters, and is 175 kilometers from Addis Ababa. As of 1994, it had a population of 47,391....

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