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Olympic Lifting and Track & Field
Vancouver, Canada
When is Berlin Marathon 2021 and who will be running?
On September 26th, 20201, Ethiopia’s greatest distance runner will attempt a World Record Berlin Marathon. For 39-year-old Bekele, it will be the fourth start in the Berlin Marathon with missing the Marathon World Record by just 2 seconds in the 2019 edition. In all four editions Kenenisa appeared in, he won the Marathon in 2016 and 2019 and let off the course without a finish in 2017.
Kenenisa Bekele Instagram Post:
In terms of long-distance track running and cross-country, Kenenisa Bekele is the greatest runner of all time. For a decade and a half, with 11 Gold Medals in World Cross-country, Bekele held the world records over 5,000 meters (12: 37.35 min) and 10,000 meters (26: 17.53 min) on the Track. He added Gold Medals over 5,000 meters at the 2008 Olympic Games and the 2009 World Championships to his collection. Over won Gold Medal over the longer distance, 10,000 meters at the 2004 and 2008 Olympic Games and 2003, 2005, 2007 and 2009 World Championships with a Silver medal at 5000m at Athens Olympics 2004.
Despite having all this success, Bekele is still waiting for a world record in Marathon. He failed to finish 50 percent of his last six races over the distance, including the Dubai Marathon in 2017, Berlin Marathon 2017, where he wanted to attack the world record.
Bekele’s proven Marathon record
Despite dropping out of major marathons, Kenenisa Bekele managed to assert that he can be the king of 42.195 kilometers. In 2016, Bekele missed the world record set by Eliud Kipchoge by six seconds in Berlin. Once again, two years ago in Berlin, Kenenisa Bekele (Ethiopia; 2:01:41 minutes) missed the world record (Kenya; 2:01:39 minutes) by just 2 seconds. Whether this world record gets broken or not on 26th of September, 2021, Bekele may try to keep up his Olympic hopes for Paris 2024 Marathon.
