Photo 1: Abebe Bikila – Getty Images, Photo 2667395 – Photo by Central Press

Photo 2: Abebe Bikila – Getty Images, Photo 106752424 – Photo by Keystone-France/Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images

Photo 3: Abebe Bikila – Getty Images, Photo 106752437 – Photo by Keystone-France/Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images

Photo 4: Abebe Bikila – Getty Images, Photo 76120034 – Photo by Photo by Central Press/Hulton Archive

Photo 5: Meselech Melkamu Haileyesus – Getty Images, Photo 82459419 – Photo by Nick Laham

Photo 6: Team Ethiopia – Getty Images, Photo 51198165 – Photo by Ian Waldie

Photo 7: Abebe Bikila – Getty Images, Photo 164491364 – Photo by The Asahi Shimbun via Getty Images

Photo 8: Mamo Welde – Getty Images, Photo 457761436 – Photo by Ed Lacey/Popperfoto via Getty Images

Photo 9: Miruts Yifter – Getty Images, Photo 1626141 – Mandatory Credit: Allsport UK /Allsport 

Photo 10: Haile Gebrselassie – Getty Images, Photo 106629881 – Photo by Andy Lyons

Photo 11: Derartu Tulu – Getty Images, Photo 237869 – Photo by Bob Martin/Allsport/Getty Images

Photo 12: Fatuma Roba – Getty Images, Photo 52813378 – Photo by Mark Sandten/Bongarts/Getty Images

Photo 13: Gezahegne Abera – Getty Images, Photo 596758 – Mandatory Credit: Andy Lyons/ Allsport

Photo 14: Kenenisa Bekele – Getty Images, Photo 82525337 – Photo by Adam Pretty

Photo 15: Tirunesh Dibaba Kenene – Getty Images, Photo 82364668 – Photo by Alexander Hassenstein/Bongarts/Getty Images

Photo 16: Meseret Defar – Getty Images, Photo 150115581 – Photo by Alexander Hassenstein

Photo 17: Almaz Ayana – Getty Images, Photo 588666526 – Photo by Cameron Spencer

Photo 18: Selemon Barega – Getty Images, Photo 1331455156 – Photo by Christian Petersen

Photo 19: Genzebe Dibaba – Getty Images, Photo 589529978 – Photo by Ian Walton

Photo 20: Werknesh Kidane and Ejegayehu Dibaba – Getty Images, Photo 51229946 – Photo by Donald Miralle

Photo 21: Tirunesh Dibaba Kenene – Getty Images, Photo 82377357 – Photo by Alexander Hassenstein/Bongarts/Getty Images

Photo 22: Derartu Tulu – Getty Images, photo 1063271 – Mandatory Credit: Sean Garnsworthy/ALLSPORT

Photo 23: Tirunesh Dibaba Kenene – Getty Images, Photo 82512659 – Photo by Mark Dadswell

Photo 24: Werknesh Kidane and Ejegayehu Dibaba – Getty Images, Photo 51227741 – Photo by Andy Lyons

Photo 25: Genzebe Dibaba – Getty Images, Photo 591624490 – Photo by Julian Finney

Photo 26: Team Ethiopia – Getty Images, Photo 1330208536 – Photo by Matthias Hangst

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