Haile Gebrselassie (Born: 18 April, 1973) is distance runner from Ethiopia who set many world records during his career in distances ranging from the two mile (8:07.46) up to the marathon (2:03:59). He won two Olympic gold medals in 10,000 meters (1996 & 2000) as well as many world championships and major marathons which included four Berlin Marathon victories in a row (2006-2009).
His relevance is that there are a number of analyses of his running gait in slow motion videos that are regularly posted on websites and circulated in social media:
This anaylsis is from the running technique coach, James Dunne from Kinetic Revolution:
This analysis is from the running coach Nicholas Romanov, the originator of the Pose running technique:
Haile Gebrselassie’s Twitter Feed:
Tweets by @HaileGebr
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