Khalid Khannouchi

Khalid Khannouchi, born on 12 September 1971, is a Moroccan-born American retired long-distance runner and a former world record holder for the marathon. He left Morocco after a dispute with the athletics federation, settled in New York in 1992 and became a United States citizen in 2000. He won the Chicago Marathon on his debut in 1997, ran 2:05:42 there in 1999 and 2:05:38 in London in 2002, and he is one of only five men to break the marathon world record more than once. He retired in 2012 because of recurring foot injuries.