Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - A ranar 26 ga Agusta 2001, ya gudanar da rabin Marathon na farko (nasara 16 daga cikin 20) kuma ya ci nasara a 1:04:34. Hakanan a cikin 2001, Haile ya lashe gasar tseren rabin tseren tseren tseren tseren tseren tseren IAAF
da lambar tagulla a mita 10,000 a gasar zakarun duniya ta 2001. A cikin wannan shekarar, ya tsara Babban Gudun Habasha tare da Peter Middlebrook, wanda Brendan Foster, mai tseren Burtaniya Richard Nerurkar da jakadan Burtaniya a Habasha Myles Wickstead suka tallafawa.