Hicham El Guerrouj completed a historic Olympic 1,500-5,000 metres double on Saturday after a battle royal with Kenenisa Bekele. The Moroccan emulated the achievement of Finn Paavo Nurmi in 1924 ...

The Gulliver he is talking about is Hicham El Guerrouj, the man who is first in the world at one of the toughest of all human challenges: running the mile and its Olympic counterpart, the 1,500 m.

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.

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.

The Gulliver he is talking about is Hicham El Guerrouj, the man who is first in the world at one of the toughest of all human challenges: running the mile and its Olympic counterpart, the 1,500 m.

This time around, if there's any fiddlin' to be done, Hicham El Guerrouj figures to do it. At the 2001 Prefontaine Classic, prep sensation Alan Webb electrified the Hayward Field crowd by smashing ...

Hicham el Guerrouj won the 1,500 meters at the Rieti (Italy) Grand Prix IAAF meet Sunday, but failed to fulfill a promise to set a world record. El Guerroj finished in 3 minutes 26.96 seconds ...

Moroccan middle-distance man beats Herb Elliott and Seb Coe in AW vote to find the greatest miler in history Hicham El Guerrouj has out-kicked Herb Elliott and Seb Coe in an AW readers' poll to ...

On this day 15 years ago, Hicham El Guerrouj of Morocco set a new mile run world record – a record that still stands today. What everyone's reading At the 1999 Grand Prix in Rome’s Olympic ...