Hicham El Guerrouj (born 14 September 1974 in Berkane, Morocco) is a retired Moroccan middle-distance runner. El Guerrouj is the current world record holder of the outdoor 1500 metres, mile, and ...

Hicham El Guerrouj shed many tears during his glittering athletics career but finally righted the wrongs of two failed Olympic campaigns with a historic double at Athens 2004. For a while the slender, ...

Hicham El Guerrouj; Hicham El Guerrouj. 4 minute read. ROD USHER London. September 11, 2000 12:00 AM EDT. ... El Guerrouj would have finished roughly 110 m ahead of Roger Bannister, ...

EDMONTON, Alberta, Aug. 12 -- Morocco's Hicham El Guerrouj took off on the last lap of the men's 1,500 meters today at the World Outdoor Track and Field Championships and no one went with him.

ATHENS — Six weeks ago, Hicham El Guerrouj wasn’t thinking about running. He wasn’t thinking about the Olympics. He certainly wasn’t thinking about Paavo Nurmi. He was thinking about ...

Home > Sports > Athens 2004 > Report Hicham El Guerrouj: Master of the Mile rediff.co. Sportsdesk | August 25, 2004 02:52 IST For minutes after the 1500 metres final at the Sydney Olympics, all ...

Morocco’s Hicham El Guerrouj won the 1,500-meter race at the Rieti Grand Prix on Sunday but was unable to break his world record, finishing 3.08 seconds short of the 3:26.00 he ran in Rome in 1998.

Hicham El Guerrouj hopes for revenge over Olympic champion Noah Ngeny when the two meet Sunday for possibly the last time. With Ngeny expelled from the Kenyan team for next month’s World ...

It was on the track in the Athenian Olympic Stadium that Hicham El Guerrouj first showed his Midas touch, striking 1500m gold at the 1997 World Championships. It has taken the great Moroccan ...