Two-time Olympic gold medallist Haile Gebrselassie was on Thursday named the international event ambassador of the Vedanta Delhi Half Marathon scheduled to be held on October 16.
The Ethiopian, one of the greatest distance runners in history, won the 10,000m gold in successive Olympics (1996 and 2000) and eight World Championships Indoor and Outdoor track titles from the 1,500m to the 10,000m in a storied career.
He also won the World Half Marathon Championships in 2001 and nine major marathons, including the Berlin Marathon four times in succession.
