Ethiopia’s Kenenisa Bekele has won his second successive Olympic 10,000 metres gold medal, in a new Olympic record time of 27 minutes 01.17 seconds.Compatriot Sileshi Sihine claimed silver, as he did in Athens, but Kenyan Micah Kogo ensured there was no Ethiopian clean-sweep.
Bekele’s 35-year-old team-mate Haile Gebrselassie, the Olympic 10,000m champion in 1996 and 2000, came in sixth.
Together, the two runners have ensured Ethiopian dominance in the event for four consecutive Olympic Games.
Bekele confirmed after the race he would attempt the long-distance track ‘double’, aiming to take out the gold in the 5,000m - something he has failed to do in previous attempts in 2004 and 2003.
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