2006 – End of year Reviews – LONG DISTANCE RUNNING

Monte-Carlo – In the sixth part of their end of year review, statisticians A. Lennart Julin and Mirko Jalava continue with their appraisal of this year, here concentrating with the highlights of the LONG DISTANCE running races which took place in 2006.

MEN – Long Distance

5000m
Prior to winning his fifth World Cross Country Championship double, this time in Fukuoka, Japan, Bekele won the 3000m title at the World Indoor Championships in Moscow. Yet the 24-year-old 5000/10,000m World record holder took an upset defeat in his first outdoor track race of the season. Isaac Songok (KEN), who had finished a very close second in the short cross race in Fukuoka, clearly beat Bekele in the Oslo 5000m. But Songok didn’t build on this win to jump to the spot as number one long distance runner, but he did record a world leading 3000m time of 7:28.72 in Rieti in August.

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IAAF
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