Mo Farah - Fastest 10,000m runner this season
Bekele says '2' after winning his 2nd Gold in 10,000m after 5,000m at Worlds Berlin 2009
Men 10,000m
World Record -> 26:17.53 Kenenisa Bekele (ETH) Brussels 2005
European Record and WL -> 26:46.57 Mo Farah (GBR) Eugene, USA 3 Jun 2011
Kenenisa Bekele won his 4th consecutive 10,000m world title in the last edition in Berlin 2009 with a championship record of 26:46.31
Kenenisa Bekele (ETH), 29, has won 12 consecutive gold medals since 2003 (including 2 Olympic n 4 world titles along with 2 world records) in this 25-lap distance which he has never been beaten.
This will be his 1st race since early 2010.
He will defend his 5,000m title too.
If he wins in Daegu, he will become the first runner at any distance to win five consecutive outdoor world titles.
Mo Farah (Mohammed Farah) (GBR), 28, arrived in Britain from Somalia 20 years ago and settled in West London, has now moved to Oregon in the U.S. to be coached by three-times New York Marathon winner Alberto Salazar.
He has been unbeaten in his last 10 races
If he wins, he will become the first European to do so in this event when it started in 1983
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