Aloÿs Nizigama (born 18 June 1966) is a retired

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an long-distance runner who specialized in the

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. His personal best 10,000 metres time was 27:20.38 minutes, achieved in July 1995 in London. This is the current Burundian record. In his career, Nizigama ran 21 sub-28 minute 10,000 metres races, 2nd only to Haile Gebrselassie with 23 times.untitled
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* 1966 births Living people Burundian male long-distance runners Burundian male cross country runners Olympic male long-distance runners Olympic athletes for Burundi Athletes (track and field) at the 1996 Summer Olympics Athletes (track and field) at the 2000 Summer Olympics World Athletics Championships athletes for Japan Japan Championships in Athletics winners 20th-century Burundian people 21st-century Burundian people {{Burundi-athletics-bio-stub