http://www.iaaf.org/GLE06/news/Kind=2/newsId=33952.htmlKenenisa will be running ALL the Golden League events 3000 & 5000m! Hopefully he can smash his 3000m pb 7:30.67 from when he was a teenager.
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Kenenisa won a silver medal in the 1999 Youth Championship and only one of his (30 plus) competitiors from that race still compete on the international scene with notable results:
Official Results - 3000 METRES - Men - Final
Friday, July 16, 1999 - 18:40
Pos Bib Athlete Country Mark
1 298 Muli Pius KEN 8:08.16
2 150 Bekele Kenenisa ETH 8:09.89
3 355 Assila Anouar MAR 8:13.54
4 147 Adilo Hussen ETH 8:20.87
5 277 Fujii Shuichi JPN 8:21.23
6 173 Farah Mohammed GBR 8:21.25
7 550 Sikoria Job UGA 8:21.96
8 297 Kipyego Michael KEN 8:22.17
9 288 Masuyama Kazuya JPN 8:22.71
10 601 Masika Emmanuel ZIM 8:30.99
11 57 Leselamose Modisa BOT 8:31.15
12 40 Baranouski Dzmitriy BLR 8:32.48
13 45 Berdnik Siarhei BLR 8:34.72
14 469 Legodi Peter RSA 8:35.00
15 209 Skoufias Theofanis GRE 8:36.90
16 138 Sanchez Sergio ESP 8:37.45
17 251 Rezaci Afshin IRN 8:48.00
18 387 Babiszkiewicz Tomasz POL 8:52.04
19 88 Siefert Marcel CHI 8:52.26
20 129 Davila David ESP 8:52.31
21 416 Poplawski Radoslaw POL 8:54.40
22 267 Gullì Valerio ITA 8:55.47
23 5 Correa José Antonio ARG 8:59.21
24 568 Clancy Christopher USA 8:59.27
25 82 Cerda Nicolas CHI 9:03.02
26 472 Mokere Neville RSA 9:03.87
27 305 Chechyn Vjcheslav KGZ 9:04.12
28 597 Al Soufi Nabil YEM 9:07.04
29 243 O'Flaherty Gerry IRL 9:16.86
30 383 Salama Hasan PAL 9:29.77
31 517 Irmatov Nurridin TJK 9:44.09
549 Saleh Mustapha Ahmed UAE DNS