Bekele bids for world 10,000 record

Olympic champion Kenenisa Bekele will attempt to break his own world 10,000m record in his first race of the 2005 outdoor season in the Dutch town of Hengelo today. The 22-year-old Ethiopian won the world cross country long and short course titles for...

Olympic champion Kenenisa Bekele will attempt to break his own world 10,000m record in his first race of the 2005 outdoor season in the Dutch town of Hengelo today.

The 22-year-old Ethiopian won the world cross country long and short course titles for the fourth time this year.

Bekele returns to the stadium where he broke compatriot Haile Gebrselassie's 5,000 mark last year for an assault on his 10,000 mark of 26 minutes 20.31 seconds.

Moroccan Hicham El Guerrouj, who won the Olympic 1,500 gold medal before going on to defeat Bekele in the 5,000, will not take part because of undefined health problems.

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