INDIANAPOLIS - Khalid Khannouchi setting the men's world record in the marathon in 2002 was honored by USA Track & Field as the 24^th greatest moment in U.S. track and field in the last 25 years.

In what many called the greatest marathon competition in history, Khannouchi won the 2002 London Marathon in 2 hours, 5 minutes, 38 seconds, a time four seconds faster than the world record he set as a citizen of Morocco at the 1999 Chicago Marathon. Khannouchi, who became a U.S. citizen in 2000, won the race by a ten-second margin over all-time greats Paul Tergat of Kenya and Haile Gebrselassie of Ethiopia, who placed second and third, respectively. Six men ran faster that 2:08.

With his record-setting performance Khannouchi became the first American to set the men's world record in the marathon since June 15, 1963 when Leonard "Buddy" Edelen ran 2:14:28 at the Windsor-Chiswick Marathon in England.

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