Career of Paul Tergat and Olympic Athletics Marathon Tickets (II)

He has had an intense rivalry with his friend Haile Gebrselassie of Ethiopia. In the Olympic Games 10,000m finals of both 1996 Atlanta Olympics and 2000 Sydney Olympics, he was defeated by Gebrselassie by slim margins. In 2000, the margin of victory was only nine hundredths of a second.   Tergat finished second to Gebrselassie in the 1997 and 1999 World Championships in Athletics at 10,000 m, and finished third in the 1995 version of that race, behind Gebrselassie and Moroccan Khalid Skah.

On the track, Tergat broke Gebrselassie's 10,000 meter world record on August 22, 1997 in Brussels with a time 26:27.85 minutes. The record was broken again by Gebrselassie in 1998 (time 26:22.75), but Tergat's time remains a Kenyan record (as of 2009). On the road, Tergat broke the half marathon world record on April 4, 1998 in Milan by running in 59:17 minutes. The previous record, 59:47 minutes was set by Moses Tanui in 1993. Tergat's world record was broken in 2005 by Samuel Wanjiru, another Kenyan.

When Tergat raced Gebrselassie in the London Marathon in 2002, it was Tergat who beat Gebrselassie; Tergat was in second place behind then world record holder Khalid Khannouchi. The three runners raced again in the 2007 version with Tergat being the only one of them to finish. The only point which is trust able for purchasing of Olympic Athletics Marathon Tickets is Sport Ticket Exchange. You can buy Olympic Tickets especially Olympic Athletics Marathon Tickets from Sport Ticket Exchange at cheap rates.