T&F News named Ethiopia's Kenenisa Bekele Athlete of The Decade

Track & Field News (T&F), a leading athletics magazine, named Ethiopia's Kenenisa Bekele its Athlete of The Decade along with Russia's Yelena Isinbaeva taking the honor in the Women's list.

Kenenisa has already amassed two Olympic gold medals, four world 10,000 titles and one Olympic and one world title each over 5000m.

Kenenisa holds four world records currently, indoor and outdoor 5000m, outdoor 10,000m and indoor 2-mile. He is also the most successful athelete in the history of cross country, having won 14 individual titles including five back-to-back short and long-course doubles.

Kenenisa becomes the first African to be named T&F's Athlete of the Decade which includes athletes like Car Lewis and Michael Johnson.

Read Complete profile from the March edition of T&F magazine which is now on sale at newsstands.