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    Hicham El Guerrouj (Arabic: هشام الݣروج; Berber languages: ⵀⵉⵛⴰⵎ ⴻⵍ ⴳⴻⵔⵔⵓⵊ, romanized: Hisham El Gerruj; born 14 September 1974) is a retired Moroccan...
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  • World Athletics is the official body which oversees the records. Hicham El Guerrouj is the current men's record holder with his time of 3:43.13, while...
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    Morceli was soon tested by a new challenger, Moroccan Hicham El Guerrouj. Morceli bested El Guerrouj in the 1,500 metres at the 1995 outdoor world championships;...
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    fastest time stands at 3:43.13, achieved by the Moroccan athlete Hicham El Guerrouj, at age 24, in 1999. On 30 October 1863, William Lang ran a downhill...
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  • final competitive international race, 1500m champion and track legend Hicham El Guerrouj of Morocco and 10,000 meter Olympic champion, world record holder...
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  • runner Hicham El Guerrouj (born 1974), Moroccan middle-distance runner Hicham El-Mashtoub (born 1972), Lebanese player of gridiron football Hicham Louissi...
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    is also required. Each lap run during the world-record race run by Hicham El Guerrouj of Morocco in 1998 in Rome, Italy averaged just under 55 seconds (or...
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    middle-distance races. The current mile world record holders are Hicham El Guerrouj of Morocco with a time of 3:43.13 and Faith Kipyegon of Kenya with...
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    pole vaulter Yelena Isinbayeva and Morocco's middle-distance runner Hicham El Guerrouj have won the main award three times. American track and field athlete...
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    at the 2003 World Championships in Paris, outsprinting runner-up Hicham El Guerrouj, the world record holder in the 1500 metres and mile, by four-hundredths...
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    (USA) 2000: Jan Železný (CZE) 2001: Hicham El Guerrouj (MAR) 2002: Hicham El Guerrouj (MAR) 2003: Hicham El Guerrouj (MAR) 2004: Kenenisa Bekele (ETH) 2005:...
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    (USA) 2000: Jan Železný (CZE) 2001: Hicham El Guerrouj (MAR) 2002: Hicham El Guerrouj (MAR) 2003: Hicham El Guerrouj (MAR) 2004: Kenenisa Bekele (ETH) 2005:...
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    outdoors. Lagat is the second fastest 1500 m runner of all time, behind Hicham El Guerrouj. Lagat is a five-time Olympian, having competed in the 2000, 2004...
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  • for the race included the 1500 meter champion/world record holder, Hicham El Guerrouj and the 10,000 meter champion Kenenisa Bekele. This was considered...
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  • Ngeny was second to Hicham El Guerrouj when the latter set the world record (3:43.13) for the mile run. Ngeny stayed close to El Guerrouj down the stretch...
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    event was won by Hicham El Guerrouj of Morocco, the nation's first title in the event after coming second twice (1992 and 2000); El Guerrouj was the fifth...
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    (USA) 2000: Jan Železný (CZE) 2001: Hicham El Guerrouj (MAR) 2002: Hicham El Guerrouj (MAR) 2003: Hicham El Guerrouj (MAR) 2004: Kenenisa Bekele (ETH) 2005:...
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    (USA) 2000: Jan Železný (CZE) 2001: Hicham El Guerrouj (MAR) 2002: Hicham El Guerrouj (MAR) 2003: Hicham El Guerrouj (MAR) 2004: Kenenisa Bekele (ETH) 2005:...
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    readers named El Aynaoui their favorite role model for society, ahead of athletics star Hicham El Guerrouj. In 1990, at the age of 18, El Aynaoui traveled...
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    (USA) 2000: Jan Železný (CZE) 2001: Hicham El Guerrouj (MAR) 2002: Hicham El Guerrouj (MAR) 2003: Hicham El Guerrouj (MAR) 2004: Kenenisa Bekele (ETH) 2005:...
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    1988 and third overall. Hicham El Guerrouj of Morocco took second, matching the nation's best result in the event (Rachid El Basir's silver in 1992)....
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  • relay. There are no recorded world records or world bests. However, Hicham El Guerrouj (Morocco) is believed to be the fastest man at this distance: 2:44...
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    (USA) 2000: Jan Železný (CZE) 2001: Hicham El Guerrouj (MAR) 2002: Hicham El Guerrouj (MAR) 2003: Hicham El Guerrouj (MAR) 2004: Kenenisa Bekele (ETH) 2005:...
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    athletes have won a total of 24 medals, 20 in athletics and 4 in boxing. Hicham El Guerrouj, with two gold medals and one silver medal, Saïd Aouita, with one...
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    Tiger Woods L'Équipe Champion of Champions 2001–2003 Succeeded by Hicham El Guerrouj Preceded by Tiger Woods Laureus World Sportsman of the Year 2002 Succeeded by...
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    (USA) 2000: Jan Železný (CZE) 2001: Hicham El Guerrouj (MAR) 2002: Hicham El Guerrouj (MAR) 2003: Hicham El Guerrouj (MAR) 2004: Kenenisa Bekele (ETH) 2005:...
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    in Atlanta was considered to be a match race between Morceli and Hicham El Guerrouj, who had filled the first two places at the previous year's World...
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    Morceli (ALG) 1997: Hicham El Guerrouj (MAR) 1999: Hicham El Guerrouj (MAR) 2001: Hicham El Guerrouj (MAR) 2003: Hicham El Guerrouj (MAR) 2005: Rashid...
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    holder Hicham El Guerrouj of Morocco, and the 2000 Sydney Olympics 1500m bronze medalist Bernard Lagat of Kenya (at the time). Although El Guerrouj won in...
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  • time of their clocking. The current meet record (3:44.90, 1997), by Hicham El Guerrouj, is bolded. The term "Dream Mile" is also used to describe several...
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