Organisers for the IAAF, Karlsruhe, Germany - Two-time World 3000m Steeplechase champion and World record holder Saif Saaeed Shaheen will contest the 3000m at the BW-Bank-Meeting in Karlsruhe, Germany, on 31 January.The BW-Bank-Meeting, this year celebrating its 26th edition, is the second IAAF Indoor Permit Meeting of 2010.
Sunday's outing will mark the first indoor appearance for the 27-year-old Qatari since the 2006 World Indoor Championships in Moscow where he took 3000m silver behind Kenenisa Bekele. Shaheen has an indoor best of 7:39.77 over the distance, also from 2006.
Injury has largely relegated Shaheen to the sidelines since the 2006 season, a campaign he capped with a stellar 5000m/3000m Steeplechase double at the IAAF World Cup at Olympic Stadium in Athens.
Among his chief opponents will be his former compatriot Shadrack Korir of Kenya, the 2007 World 1500m bronze medallist. Korir has a personal best of 7:35.98 in the 3000m indoors.
organisers have also announced that four-time World 110m Hurdles champion Allen Johnson will return to Karlsruhe. The ageless American, now 38, set the meeting record of 7.38 back in 1995.
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