GL Bruxelles m10000m - Sileshi Sihine 27:06.97

[pela2]

Ahmad Hassan Abdullah QAT
Abebe Dinkesa ETH
Boniface Toroitich Kiprop UGA
Silas Kipruto KEN
Mark Kosgei Kiptoo KEN
Micah Kogo KEN
Bernard Kiprop Kipyego KEN
Moses Masai KEN
Joel Kemboi Kimurer KEN
Jonathan Kipkoech Komen KEN
Edwin Kipkorir KEN
Frank Bollen BEL
Sileshi Sihine ETH
Dieudonné Disi RWA
Marco Joseph TAN
Josphat Bett Kipkoech KEN
Leonard Patrick Komon KEN
Bernard Rotich KEN
Mebrahtom Keflezighi USA
Habtamu Fikadu ETH
Ibrahim Jeilan ETH

Start: 21:30 CET

[pela2]

sub-27 at Van Damme


a long list :shock:

26:17.53 Kenenisa Bekele 1 26.08.2005
26:27.85 Paul Tergat 1 22.08.1997
26:29.22 Haile Gebrselassie 1 05.09.2003
26:30.03 Nicholas Kemboi 2 05.09.2003
26:35.63 Micah Kogo 1 25.08.2006
26:36.26 Paul Koech 2 22.08.1997
26:37.25 Zersenay Tadesse 2 25.08.2006
26:38.08 Salah Hissou 1 23.08.1996
26:38.76 Ahmad Hassan Abdullah 3 05.09.2003
26:39.77 Boniface Kiprop 2 26.08.2005
26:41.75 Samuel Wanjiru 3 26.08.2005
26:41.95 Boniface Kiprop 3 25.08.2006
26:46.19 Kenenisa Bekele 1 14.09.2007
26:46.44 Paul Tergat 1 28.08.1998
26:47.89 Paul Koech 2 28.08.1998
26:49.20 Moses Masai 2 14.09.2007
26:49.38 Sammy Kipketer 1 30.08.2002
26:49.90 Assefa Mezgebu 2 30.08.2002
26:50.20 Richard Limo 3 30.08.2002
26:50.67 Albert Chepkurui 4 30.08.2002
26:51.49 Charles Kamathi 1 03.09.1999
26:51.87 Nicholas Kemboi 4 26.08.2005
26:52.30 Mohammed Mourhit 2 03.09.1999
26:52.60 Sammy Kipketer 5 26.08.2005
26:52.87 John Cheruiyot Korir 5 30.08.2002
26:52.93 Mark Bett 6 26.08.2005
26:54.41 Paul Tergat 2 23.08.1996
26:56.63 Richard Limo 4 05.09.2003
26:56.78 Paul Koech 3 23.08.1996
26:58.42 Micah Kogo 3 14.09.2007
26:59.51 Bernard Kipyego 4 14.09.2007
26:59.54 Ahmad Hassan Abdullah 1 03.09.2004
26:59.93 Charles Kamathi 2 03.09.2004

[EPelle]

Last Olympic-cycle winner: 26.59,54, Ahmad Abdullah

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[pela2]

Anyone keeping an eye on the laptimes?

[lapsus]

13:34.2 @ 5000 meters

[joeltetreault]

13:34.2 @ 5000 meters

Thanks! Any more splits would be appreciated for those of us without a video feed...

[lapsus]

18:59.37 at 7000, 6->7 km 2:44.9
21:46.67 at 8000, 2:47.3 km
Masai / Sihine / Kipyego / Abdullah leading at 9000, no split
Sihine wins in 27:06.98, last lap 58.5. About 150 meter kick from Sihine.

[spy]

They set off the fireworks for the Golden League prize presentation . . . while there were still 3 laps left in the men's 10K. All of the runners get to breathe smoke for their final laps.

[lapsus]

Sihine is holding his stomach, the smoke may have affected him.

[pela2]

First winning time over 27 minutes at van Damme since Mark Bett won in 2001 with 27:24.68

[Alan Shank]

Nice to see Sihine win a race now and then. He's finished 2nd to Bekele in the last four Oly/WC 10K races, 2nd to Benjamim Limo in the '05 5K (pretty good double!) and was 3rd to Bekele/Geb in '03 10K. He's a "winning horse" except when Bekele is in the race.
Cheers,
Alan Shank

[imaginative]

Nice to see Sihine win a race now and then. He's finished 2nd to Bekele in the last four Oly/WC 10K races, 2nd to Benjamim Limo in the '05 5K (pretty good double!) and was 3rd to Bekele/Geb in '03 10K. He's a "winning horse" except when Bekele is in the race.
Cheers,
Alan Shank

He is indeed a strong candidate for ``worst career timing of all
times''---he might even be ahead of Mike Powell by now.

[lapsus]

Nice to see Sihine win a race now and then. He's finished 2nd to Bekele in the last four Oly/WC 10K races, 2nd to Benjamim Limo in the '05 5K (pretty good double!) and was 3rd to Bekele/Geb in '03 10K. He's a "winning horse" except when Bekele is in the race.
Cheers,
Alan Shank

He was also 2nd in the 10000 meters in the 2002 world junior championships, behind Gebre Gebremariam.

Has he ever lost to a non-Ethiopian in the 10000 meters?

[bpence]

He was 9th in Brussels in 2002:

1 Sammy Kipketer [KEN] KEN 26:49.38
2 Assefa Mezgebu [ETH] ETH 26:49.90
3 Richard Limo [KEN] KEN 26:50.20
4 Ahmad Hassan Abdullah [QAT] QAT 26:50.67
5 John Cheruiyot Korir [KEN] KEN 26:52.87
6 Patrick Ivuti [KEN] KEN 27:05.88
7 John Yuda Msuri [TAN] TAN 27:06.17
8 Gebre-egziabher Gebremariam [ETH] ETH 27:25.61
9 Sileshi Sihine [ETH] ETH 27:26.12

That's the only one I can find, though.

[Aiden]

Nice to see Sihine win a race now and then. He's finished 2nd to Bekele in the last four Oly/WC 10K races, 2nd to Benjamim Limo in the '05 5K (pretty good double!) and was 3rd to Bekele/Geb in '03 10K. He's a "winning horse" except when Bekele is in the race.
Cheers,
Alan Shank

Poor guy is this era's Paul Tergat. Well, without the world records and XC titles.