http://www.priyadarshan.org/taxonomy/term/78/0 en http://www.priyadarshan.org/marathon-gebrselassie-sets-new-world-record-172.html <div class="document"> <p>BERLIN, Sept 30 (Reuters) - Haile Gebrselassie of Ethiopia (with red shirt in the photograph) set a world record for the marathon today, Sunday 30 September 2007, winning the Berlin race in an unofficial time of two hours, four minutes and 26 seconds (2h 04m 26s).</p> <p>Gebrselassie, 34, bettered the mark of 2:04:55 set by Kenya's Paul Tergat on the same Berlin course on Sept. 28, 2003.</p> <p>Running in near ideal conditions, Gebrselassie was already 32 seconds inside Tergat's pace at the 10km mark.</p> </div> <p><a href="http://www.priyadarshan.org/marathon-gebrselassie-sets-new-world-record-172.html">read more</a></p> http://www.priyadarshan.org/marathon-gebrselassie-sets-new-world-record-172.html#comments Records Sports Sun, 30 Sep 2007 10:04:32 +0000 Priyadarshan 172 at http://www.priyadarshan.org