 Complete the following phrase:  He was the 2007 winner of the Cross Internacional de Venta de Baños in Spain, and Tola went on to finish seventh at the 2007 IAAF World Cross Country Championships in Mombasa. He was Ethiopias best finisher in the competition, in which reigning champion Kenenisa Bekele dropped out from exhaustion. A week after the IAAF World Cross Country Championships, he won the Cherry Blossom Ten Mile Run in Washington DC. On track, he won the silver at the 