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	Gezahegne Abera Beschreibung in Library - Definition und Buch-Tipp. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
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		Gezahegne Abera (* 23.04 1978 in Äthiopien) gewann als Marathonläufer die Goldmedaille bei den Olympischen Spielen 2000 in Sydney.
		Um das Familieneinkommen zu sichern, arbeitete Abera bereits in jungen Jahren auf der Farm seines Vaters.
	gezahegne_abera.know-library.net (736 words)

	Abera's ambition is to hit the wall \| Athletics \| Guardian Unlimited Sport
		Abera was one of a family of eight children in the village of Etya, 20 kilometres from where Haile Gebrselassie was born.
		Abera, despite his success 32 years after those three consecutive Olympic marathon victories, does not yet rank alongside his prestigious fellow countrymen in a mural reproduction of Olympic-like rings in Ethiopia's national stadium.
		Abera has been particularly motivated during his build-up to the London Marathon as he was unable to compete last year due to an injured spine.
	sport.guardian.co.uk /athletics/story/0,10082,934417,00.html (797 words)

	Worthy successor
		Gezahegne Abera (332) of Ethiopia crosses the finish line first followed by Simon Biwott (672) of Kenya in the men's marathon at the World Championships in Athletics in Edmonton last Friday.
		Abera won by just one second over the Berlin champion in two hours 12 minutes 42 seconds, the closest win in the history of the world championships.
		Abera is now a worthy successor to his great predecessor, whose premature death in 1973 is marked by a monumental tomb in Addis Ababa.
	app1.chinadaily.com.cn /star/2001/0809/sp30-1.html (483 words)

	'No limits' for Abera
		Abera has only really surprised himself once, with that Olympic success in Sydney three years ago, when he overcame a fall at 17km and defied the resulting pain in his knee to win by 20 seconds.
		Abera’s 2:07:56 in London on Sunday was two seconds outside his PB of 2:07:54 he ran in Fukuoka in 1999, the first of three victories in that event.
		Abera’s half-marathon best of 60:30 is rather modest in world terms and we rarely see him race shorter distances but he explains: “There are so many good runners in Ethiopia at 10,000m, so I moved up to the marathon before I reached international standard.
	www.addistribune.com /Archives/2003/04/18-04-03/No.htm (1058 words)

	SABCnews.com - sport/other
		Ethiopia's Gezahegne Abera raced to an historical marathon victory at the IAAF world athletics championships in Edmonton yesterday, when he added the world title to his Sydney Olympic gold medal.
		Abera overcame a mighty challenge from the Kenyan who put everything into neutralising the gutsy little Ethiopian in the final phases of arguably the most exciting marathon in the world championships.
		Abera took the Kenyan with 200 m to go and sprinted the final 100 m, holding off yet another challenge, to make world athletics history in 2:12:42.
	www.sabcnews.com /sport/other/0,2172,18776,00.html (691 words)

	Boston.com / Sports / Boston Marathon / 2001 Stories
		Ethiopian Gezahegne Abera, the Olympic gold medalist, took one look at the BAA Official Program for Monday's 105th running of the Boston Marathon and loved what he saw.
		Abera led a strong Ethiopian performance in the distance events and became the first male from his country to win gold since Mamo Wolde in 1968, who followed Abebe Bikila in 1960 and 1964.
		Abera memorized the names and numbers so he could keep track of them in the race.
	graphics.boston.com /marathon/stories/2001/breaking_away.htm (864 words)

	IAAF International Association of Athletics Federations - IAAF.org - News
		Last year, the race turned out to be a thrilling duel between Abera and Koji Shimizu, with the former unleashing his blazing kick with 200m to go and winning by three seconds.
		Abera unleashed his attack with 150m go to and won by two seconds.** Unfortunately, because the winning time - 2:09:13 - was quite modest, it is unlikely that he will rank high in the year's world marathon ranking.
		Abera won in 2:09:13 and became the third time winner of this prestigious marathon.
	www.iaaf.org /news/Kind=2/newsId=20073.html (1022 words)

	HARIAN UMUM SUARA MERDEKA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		EDMONTON - Gezahegne Abera dari Ethiopia mengukuhkan diri sebagai pelari maraton putra terbaik dunia saat ini.
		Abera hanya unggul satu detik atas Biwott, kemenangan paling tipis dalam sejarah kejuaraan dunia, dengan catatan waktu 2 jam 12 menit dan 42 detik.
		Dengan keberhasilannya tersebut, Abera berhasil menyamai prestasi pelari maraton putri asal Portugal, Rosa Mota.
	www.suaramerdeka.com /harian/0108/05/ora11.htm (456 words)

	WORLD TRACK & FIELD CHAMPIONSHIPS / Ethiopian wins marathon -- U.S. hopeful can't finish
		In fact, Abera and Biwott did not even acknowledge each other's presence after the race, when they accepted their national flags and walked a victory lap.
		For Abera, though, it's two gold medals in the two biggest marathons in less than a year, Sydney in September and Edmonton in August.
		Abera, Biwott, Baldini and Tola were content to let Ronnie Holassie of Trinidad and Tobago lead through the first 15 miles and Abdelkader El Mouaziz of Morocco for the next 3.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2001/08/04/SP235271.DTL&type=printable (658 words)

	Feature Stories (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		ezahegne Abera confirmed that he is currently the best marathoner on the planet with an incredible victory in the Marathon races at the eighth World championships.
		In a victory that established him as a legitimate successor to Ethiopia's most beloved Marathon legend, Abebe Bikila, Gezahegne won the race in the final metres that was a gripping duel between him and Kenya's Simon Biwott.
		Gezahegne is also now the first man to win both the world and Olympic titles.
	www.mediaethiopia.com /week_of_August3_01.htm (234 words)

	IAAF International Association of Athletics Federations - IAAF.org - News
		Last year both the World gold (Gezahegne Abera) and silver (Simon Biwott) medallists from Edmonton ran, and this year both the Olympic gold (Abera) and silver (Eric Wainaina) medallists from Sydney are invited.
		For Abera who missed this year’s London marathon with injury, Fukuoka is his first race of the year.
		Although Abera is the first man to win both the Olympics and World Championships, perhaps because his marathon personal best is modest 2:07:54 (80th in the all time list), he does not attract as much attention as Khalid Khannouchi, the world's fastest ever marathoner, and so his desire to achieve a quick race is great.
	www.iaaf.org /news/Kind=2/newsId=20062.html (1311 words)

	World Vision in Chicago - Gezahegne and Elfenesh Join Team World Vision
		Gezahegne Abera is not only the youngest marathon champion in Olympic history, but also the only marathon runner to have ever won the World Championship and Olympic gold medal in the same year (2000).
		As a child, Gezahegne heard a radio broadcast of a 20k (over 12 miles) race and had a realization: “I was running 25k per day to school and back, plus working in the field all afternoon without getting tired,” he said.
		Gezahegne and Elfenesh are excited to lead the charge of professional athletes devoted to this cause, and are even coming to Chicago to encourage and inspire Team members.
	worldvision.org /get_involved.nsf/child/metro_chicago_programs_teamwv_gez (669 words)

	sport.iafrica.com \| olympics \| news Gebrselassie hit by injury
		Dibaba was originally entered in the 5 000 metres and only a reserve at the longer distance, but she will now run over 25 laps of the track instead and the world indoor 3 000 metres champion Meserat Defar will take her place in the shorter event.
		Abera will be replaced in the starting line-up by Ambesse Tolosa, winner of Paris Marathon in April.
		Berta said Abera will travel to Greece after being included in the team as a reserve for the race on August 29 as the deadline has passed for naming another runner.
	sport.iafrica.com /olympics/news/341656.htm (448 words)

	American Track and Field -- Regional News Article
		Abera and Baldini were eyeing each other, except it was Simon Biwott, who had been in the lead pack for most of the race, forging into the lead at about 39 kilometers.
		Abera is the consumate tactician, a Steve Ovett in marathoner's clothing, waiting to pounce with his superior speed and a sudden rush of adrenaline.
		Biwott is still in the lead, trying with all of his might to hold off Abera, who is waiting, just waiting for the backstretch of the track, when he knows the race is his, and it is time to fly.
	www.american-trackandfield.com /news/WCD1Up3MMarF.html (1541 words)

	Gezahegne Abera wins Fukuoka - News section - Time-to-Run - Headline and Site news
		Abera again used his now famous, infamous for his opponents, kick to assure victory.
		This takes Abera ever closer to the 'legend' Bikila who is considered the Ethiopian Marathoner of all time.
		Abera has less chance of breaking the World Best [record] at a major championships, not only because of the courses being unsuitable, but also the fact that TV coverage dictates the starting time.
	www.time-to-run.com /news/281102.htm (223 words)

	Gezahegne Abera Out for at Least Next Four Weeks
		Ethiopia's Olympic Marathon champion Gezahegne Abera will be out of action for another four weeks after failing to recover from the injury that forced him to pull out from the race in Paris a month ago.
		Gezahegne has not run a full Marathon since marrying fellow Marathon runner Elfinesh Alemu in June this year and could now be aiming to win his second successive title at the Flora London Marathon the coming April.
		While the news is a blow for Gezahegne and the organizers, Monti confirmed that Olympic Marathon Bronze medalist Tesfaye Tola has confirmed his participation for the Marathon.
	www.addistribune.com /Archives/2003/10/03-10-03/Gezahegne.htm (275 words)

	World Athletics Championships: Abera takes marathon world champion title \| Athletics \| Other Sports \| Sport \| Telegraph
		Gezahegne Abera won the world title in the marathon after a desperate sprint finish against Kenyan Simon Biwott on the track in Commonwealth stadium at the World Athletics Championships in Edmonton.
		The result afforded Abera the dubious honour of being the closest runner-up in the event's 105-year history.
		Abera began running as a child while tending cattle on his family's farm.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /sport/main.jhtml?xml=/sport/2001/08/04/upmara05.xml (417 words)

	Al-Ahram Weekly \| Sports \| Queen of England
		Gezahegne Abera took the honours in a thriller.
		And it was Abera who finished the fastest, with Italy's Stefano Baldini and Joseph Ngolepus of Kenya in second and third.
		It is a tried and tested tactic, Abera winning his previous three marathons by margins of one second, three seconds and two seconds.
	weekly.ahram.org.eg /2003/634/sp4.htm (597 words)

	The Telegraph - Calcutta
		But she finally secured her status as a world class distance runner in a mixed race in Chicago where she beat the then world mark holder Ndereba to break the world mark by 89 seconds.
		World and Olympic champion Gezahegne Abera of Ethiopia won the men’s race at the London Marathon on Sunday, edging to victory in an exciting five-man sprint finish.
		Abera’s winning unofficial time of 2:07:56 was well outside Khannouchi’s time after a tactical race.
	www.telegraphindia.com /1030414/asp/sports/story_1871847.asp (411 words)

	Ambitious Abera outlines his treble vision-Sport-More Sport-Athletics-TimesOnline
		When Gezahegne Abera, the Olympic men’s marathon champion, and Elfenesh Alemu, one of the country’s top woman distance runners, were married last June, he had six best men, among them Haile Gebrselassie, and she had a wedding-dress train measuring 600 metres, which needed 300 students to carry it.
		This week Abera is on one side of the Atlantic, to defend his Flora London Marathon title on Sunday, while Elemu is in the United States to take on Catherine Ndereba, Kenya’s world champion, in the Boston Marathon on Monday.
		Abera is the master of it, having accomplished five of his six marathon victories by three seconds or less.
	www.timesonline.co.uk /tol/sport/more_sport/athletics/article824447.ece (829 words)

	Houston Chronicle: Genetics, evolution: the unsung heroes? By FRAN BLINEBURY, Jon Entine, sports and race
		After watching on the giant video screen as the elite field pounded their way along the hard, hot streets while battling 90-degree temperatures, the last thing any of the spectators inside Commonwealth Stadium expected was a mad, frantic dash down the homestretch.
		But when Gezahegne Abera came in just a step ahead of Simon Biwott for the gold medal, what was not the least bit surprising was the country names on the front of their respective singlets.
		Abera is from Ethiopia and Biwott from Kenya.
	www.jonentine.com /reviews/houston_chronicle.html (676 words)

	Abera sticks his nose out in photo-finish \| Athletics \| Guardian Unlimited Sport
		Ethiopia's Olympic and world champion, Gezahegne Abera, triumphed over Italy's Stefano Baldini and Kenya's Joseph Ngolepus in a blanket finish that more resembled the end of a 100-metres race than one over 26.2 miles.
		It was so close at the finish that the timekeepers could not split Abera and Baldini, who both clocked in at 2hr 7min 56sec.
		As he has done throughout his career, Abera waited until the end to sprint home, overcoming a field of 32,746, in which nine men had better personal bests than him.
	sport.guardian.co.uk /athletics/story/0,10082,936145,00.html (385 words)

	Windy City Sports - Article - Team World Vision Supported by Marathon Greats
		Abera is not only the youngest marathon champion in Olympic history, but also the only marathon runner to have ever won the World Championship and Olympic gold medal in the same year, 2000.
		Alemu is the runner who captured the 2003 Tokyo Women's Marathon in 2:24:47, staging a huge upset over 2000 Olympic champion and former world record-holder Naoko Takahashi on her home turf, defeating Takahashi by more than two minutes and solidifying her position as one of the top marathoners in the world.
		Abera and Alemu are not running the marathon but have been here all week to support the team and participate in events with Chicago Endurance Sports, Fleet Feet Sports and Team World Vision.
	www.windycitysports.com /article/?Guid=b6e90d98-b7e7-4531-bdf5-196055a539f1 (316 words)

	ESPN.com - OLY - Only 23, Abera has things mastered
		Ethiopia's Gezahegne Abera proved that he has mastered the very difficult art of championship marathon running in the opening event of the World Championships.
		I am just as sure now that at this point in his career, the American by way of Morocco, despite being the fastest marathoner ever, is not well prepared to contest a major summer championship.
		Earlier however, as they approached the stadium in the final stages of the race, Abera did something that was either a wonderful gesture of sportsmanship, or a fortunate reflex.
	espn.go.com /oly/columns/hollobaugh_jeff/1235226.html (790 words)

	Feature Stories (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		ezahegne Abera confirmed that he is currently the best marathoner on the planet with an incredible victory in the Marathon races at the eighth World championships.
		In a victory that established him as a legitimate successor to Ethiopia's most beloved Marathon legend, Abebe Bikila, Gezahegne won the race in the final metres that was a gripping duel between him and Kenya's Simon Biwott.
		Gezahegne is also now the first man to win both the world and Olympic titles.
	www.ethiopians.com /week_of_August3_01.htm (234 words)

	The Hindu : Abera completes historic double
		Gezahegne Abera completed a historic marathon double by winning the first gold medal in the eighth World athletic championships here on Friday.
		Abera was very strong with his kick,'' said Biwott.
		He won the 1999 Fukuoka marathon by one second from Mohammed Ouaadi of France, was credited the same timing of 2:09.47 with Kenyan Elijah Lagat at the 2000 Boston marathon but placed second, and in Sydney last year, he managed to beat Wainaina by 20 seconds.
	www.hinduonnet.com /2001/08/05/stories/0705011i.htm (1307 words)

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