Morocco's El Guerrouj holds 2nd rank in IAAF overall ranking
Morocco, Sports, 8/16/2001

World three-time champion of the 1,500 m, Hicham El Guerrouj of Morocco holds the 2nd rank in the International Athletics Federation (IAAF) overall ranking released on Wednesday, behind US Maurice Greene, world champ of the 100m.

American Allen Johnson, who won a third title in a row in the 110 m steeple, cruised from the 12th to the 3rd rank.

El Guerrouj holds the 1,500 m world record

Morocco's Hicham El Guerrouj, who already holds two world titles in the 1,500 m race in 1997 and 1999, won on Sunday his third title in a row at Edmonton's world championship and gave Morocco a 2nd gold medal.

Hicham, the only athlete in the world with five world records (outdoors 1,500 m, mile and 2,000 m and indoors 1,500 m and mile), will be shifting to the 5,000m with an eye on Ethiopian Haile Gebreselassie's record of 12:39'36."

El Guerrouj, is scheduled to run on August 24 and 31 in the Brussels and Berlin meets but has not yet made a decision on the IAAF grand prize slated for September 9 in Melbourne. He could also be on the line-up in Tunis' Mediterranean games.

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