<Li> Mo Farah, winner of 5000m and 10,000 m double at 2010 European Athletics Championships in Barcelona, with a successive double victory in the 5000m and 10,000 m races of the 2012 London Olympic Games, and subsequently an Olympic' double double', winning gold in the same distances at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympic Games . </Li> <Li> Hicham El Guerrouj, double gold medalist at the 2004 Athens Olympics, and the reigning world record holder for the 1,500 metres, 3: 26.00, the mile 3: 43.13 and 2,000 metres, 4: 44.79 . He also captured the World Championship 5000m silver medal in 2003 and the Olympic 5000m gold medal in 2004 . </Li> <Li> Haile Gebrselassie, considered one of the greatest distance runners of all time, was the 1996 and 2000 Olympic gold medalist in the 10,000 m, and held the 5000 m and 10,000 m world records from 1998 until 2004 with a mark of 12: 39.36 and 26: 22.75 respectively (still the second best athlete of all time). He also held the marathon world record from September 2007 to September 2011 . </Li> <Li> Volmari Iso - Hollo, winner of 3000 m steeplechase at the 1932 and 1936 Summer Olympics </Li>

A british long distance runner who won 2 gold medals