The Delhi Half Marathon will have both physical and virtual races. He achieved 17 world record times across various distances in his career spanning over two decades. In 2008, the Ethiopian runner won the Berlin Marathon at the age of 35, clocking 2:03.59, a world record time back then. Gebrselassie aced the Berlin Marathon four times in succession from 2006 to 2009. The Ethiopian is also a four-time world indoor championships gold medallist, a World Half Marathon winner from 2001 and has nine major marathon wins to his name. Besides winning gold medals at both the Atlanta 1996 and Sydney 2000 Summer Games, Haile Gebrselassie is a four-time 10,000m world champion. Haile Gebrselassie is regarded as one of the greatest long-distance runners of all time. Half marathon world record holder Jacob Kiplimo of Uganda will headline a top-class elite field for the 17th edition of the popular event. The 2022 edition will be held on October 16 and will start from Delhi’s Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium. The Delhi Half Marathon is a World Athletics Elite Label Road Race. Former Ethiopian long-distance runner Haile Gebrselassie, a two-time Olympic champion, was named as the international event ambassador of the Delhi Half Marathon 2022 on Thursday.

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