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 Bekele
defies pundits to take historic double gold in Dublin
Sean Wallace-Jones for the IAAF
24 March 2002 – Dublin, Ireland – 19-year-old
Kenenisa Bekele from Ethiopia today ran into the history books as he became the first
athlete to win both the men’s short and long cross races at the World Cross Country
Championships.
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 Dublin
payday for Edith Masai
Steven Downes for the IAAF
24 March 2002 – Dublin, Ireland - Kenya’s Edith
Masai enjoyed the biggest pay-day of her brief running career on Sunday, when she
collected $34,000 prize money after winning the women’s short-course race at the iaaf/sport
Ireland World Cross-country Championships here on Sunday.
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 Unshod
Gebremarian shooed home as Junior Men’s Winner
Phil Minshull for the IAAF
24 March 2002 – Dublin, Ireland -Nobody is
keeping the statistics for how many IAAF world champions have won their titles with
just one shoe but no one at the Leopardstown racecourse on Sunday could remember any
other’s than Ethiopia’s Gebre-egziable Gebremarian, who followed in the footsteps of
his compatriot Kenenisha Bekele 12 months ago by winning the junior men’s gold medal.
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 Radcliffe
runs away with
2nd World
Cross gold, USA take silver and bronze
Sean Wallace-Jones for the IAAF
23 March 2002 – Dublin, Ireland – Great Britain’s defending
champion Paula Radcliffe became the first woman in ten years to successfully defend
her long cross title here this afternoon and she was followed across the line by two
surprise contenders as Americans Deena Drossin and Colleen De Reuck closed Ethiopia
and Kenya out of the individual medal tables.
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