Tergat enters ING New York City Marathon

Tergat enters ING New York City Marathon

The world's fastest marathoner in history, Paul Tergat of Kenya, will join an already stellar field assembled to run the ING New York City Marathon 2005 on Sunday, November 6. The announcement was made at a press luncheon in his honor at the IAAF World Athletics Final in Monaco.

Tergat, who set the world record of 2 hours, 4 minutes, 55 seconds at the 2003 Berlin Marathon, joins a men's field that includes defending ING New York City Marathon Champion Hendrick Ramaala of South Africa, 2004 Olympic silver medalist and last year's runner-up Meb Keflezighi of the United States and 2005 IAAF World Marathon champion Jaoud Gharib of Morocco.

Tergat, 36, has been an international success since 1995 when he burst on to the scene winning the first of his five consecutive IAAF World Cross Country Championships. A two-time World Half-Marathon champion, he was the Olympic silver medalist at 10,000 meters in 1996 and 2000 and finished 10th in the marathon at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens.

For more information on the 2005 ING New York City Marathon, visit www.nyrr.org.

source USATF