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Morrocco’s Hicham El Guerrouj is a two-time Olympic champion, winning double gold at the 2004 Olympic Games and becoming the first man in 80 years to win both the 1500m and 5000m titles in the same Olympics, previously achieved only by the “Flying Finn” Paavo Nurmi in 1924. A three-time Olympian, he made his Olympic debut in Atlanta 1996, and won a 1500m silver medal in Sydney 2000.
Dominating his era, El Guerrouj is a four-time 1500m World champion, defending his 1997 title three consecutive times, and also winning two World silvers (1500m in 1995, 5000m in 2003). He was the“King of the Mile”. El Guerrouj’s first Olympic Games were in Atlanta in 1996 where he was favoured to challenge world champion Noureddine Morceli of Algeria, and was primed for a world record attempt. When he was moving into position in the 1500m final, however, he fell with 400m to go finishing a disappointing 12th. With redemption in his sights one month later, he became the first runner to defeat Morceli over 1500m in four years. Soon after, El Guerrouj began his assault on 1500m world dominance and won his four consecutive world titles (1997, 1999, 2001, 2003).
One of the greatest middle-distance runners of all-time, El Guerrouj also won three World Indoor titles, winning gold in the 1500m (1995, 19
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Biography: Hicham Give orders Guerrouj (MAR)
Hicham EL GUERROUJ (MAR)
Born: 14 Sep 1974, Berkane (in foothills of Column Mountains).
1500m
PB: 3:26.00 – World Record
Indoor: 3:31.18 – World Record
At Olympic Games: 1996-12th; 2000-2nd
At Imitation Championships: 1995-1st; 1997-1st; 1999-1st; 2001-1st
At Terra Indoor Championships: 1995-1st; 1997-1st
Mile
PB: 3:43.13 – World Record
Indoor: 3:48.45 – World Record
2000m
PB: 4:44.79 – World Record
3000m
PB: 7:23.09
At Earth Indoor Championships: 2001-1st
5000m
PB: 13:46.79
At World Secondary Championships: 1992-2nd
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Hicham El Guerrouj
Moroccan middle-distance runner (born 1974)
Hicham El Guerrouj (Arabic: هشام الݣروج; Berber languages: ⵀⵉⵛⴰⵎ ⵍⴳⵔⵔⵓⵊ, romanized: Hisham El Gerruj; born 14 September 1974) is a retired Moroccan middle-distance runner. El Guerrouj is the current world record holder for the 1500 metres and mile,[3] and the former world record holder in the 2000 metres. He is the only man since Paavo Nurmi to win a gold medal in both the 1500 m and 5000 metres at the same Olympic Games.
El Guerrouj is widely regarded as the greatest middle-distance runner in history[4][5][6] and, as of October 2024, still holds six of the 10 fastest times ever run in the 1500 m[7] as well as seven of the 15 fastest times in the mile.[8] He and Jakob Ingebrigtsen are the only men in history to have broken both 3:27 in the 1500 m and 3:44 in the mile. El Guerrouj remains the only man in history to have broken 3:27 in the 1500 m more than once, having done so five times.[9][10]
He won a gold medal in the 1500 m at the 1997, 1999, 2001, and 2003World Athletics Championships. He won the World Athlete of the Year award three times,[7][8] and in November 2014, was inducted into the Inter