sentences:  He also participated five times in the IAAF World Cross Country Championships.His best Olympic performance was 8th in the 10 000m at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, a race where the top eight positions were taken by (six) African countries.He was forty when he competed in the marathon at the 2004 Athens Olympics; of the hundred men who started the race, he came 62nd with a time of 2hours, 26 minutes, 5 seconds.