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Haile Gebrselassie of Ethiopia shattered his own marathon record in the real-Berlin Marathon on Sunday morning, running 2hrs 03min 59sec, to become the first man in history under 2.04 for the distance. On a morning that he described as perfect, with sunshine and temperatures rising from 10C(48F) at the 9am start, to 14C(55F) at the […]

A blistering early race pace put paid to Haile Gebrselassie’s world record chances at the Standard Chartered Dubai Marathon but the Ethiopian still stormed to victory in a time of 2:04:53

Double Olympic 10,000m champion and current marathon world record holder Haile Gebrselassie goes into today’s (Friday) Standard Chartered Dubai Marathon as red hot favourite