| LC control no. | no 00043687 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Gebrselassie, Haile, 1973- |
| Variant(s) | H̲āylé Gebraselasé, 1973- H̲āylé Ga/Śelāsé, 1973- Haile Gebrselassie, 1973- |
| Associated country | Ethiopia |
| Birth date | 1973-04-18 |
| Place of birth | Ethiopia |
| Affiliation | Berlin-Marathon Olympic Games (26th : 1996 : Atlanta, Ga.) Olympic Games (27th : 2000 : Sydney, N.S.W.) |
| Profession or occupation | Athletes Long-distance runners |
| Found in | Endurance, 1998: credits (Haile Gebrselassie) Wikipedia, May 16, 2012: (H̲āylé Gebraselasé: b. 1973) ʼAsnāqa Tafarā. YaH̲āylé yaḥeywat tamakero, 2010: p. 1 (H̲āylé Ga/Śelāsé) p. 183 (Haile Gebrselassie [in rom]) Dictionary of African Biography, accessed January 29, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Haile, Gebrselassie; track and field athlete; born 18 April 1973 in Ethiopia; began studying in a school some six miles from his home at the age of five; began competing on the national level at the age of fifteen; began competing on the international level (1993); broke twenty-seven world records; won two Olympic gold medals, 10,000 meter in Atlanta (1996) and in Sydney (2000); won four outdoor world championships; won four indoor world championships; won the Berlin Marathon with a record time of 2:03:59, breaking his own world record (2008)) |
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