Tirunesh Dibaba of Eyhiopia wins heat one of the women's 5000m (© Getty Images)
In the third of a seven part series to rekindle memories of this summer’s 10th IAAF World Championships in Athletics, Helsinki, Finland (6 -14 August 2005), and to get to know the gold medallists a little better, we present the Long Distance Events.
Over the course of nine days competition in the Finnish capital, 3 World records, 10 Championship records, and 9 Area records were established, and 43 (22 men and 21 women) new individual event champions were crowned.
As well as publishing reports and flash interviews about each event, the IAAF website through its team of staff and freelance writers produced a feature story/interview with each of these 43 Helsinki world beaters.
Yet given the huge volume of news published during those nine days, some of these articles will no doubt have passed by in a blur, and so to enable us to get better acquainted with these stars, many of whom are from an emerging young generation, we are now pleased to offer links to each of their feature stories/interviews.
Chris Turner
IAAF Editorial Manager
Click on links below to go to the articles
Men
5000m – Benjamin Limo KEN
Helsinki Limo
10,000m – Kenenisa Bekele ETH
Double unlikely, and this time Bekele confirms it in English
Marathon – Jaouad Gharib MAR
El Guerrouj phones to say well done to the ‘assassin’ Gharib
Women
5000m – Tirunesh Dibaba ETH
10,000m – Tirunesh Dibaba ETH
Tirunesh Dibaba – simply the best
Marathon – Paula Radcliffe GBR
Radcliffe fulfills date with destiny
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