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Ted Corbitt (January 31, 1919 – December 12, 2007) [2] [3] [4] was an American long-distance runner. The first African-American to run the marathon at the Summer Olympics (the 1952 Olympics in Helsinki, Finland) and the founding president of New York Road Runners, Corbitt is often called "the father of American long distance running."
Gasparilla Distance Classic. The Gasparilla Distance Classic is a road race which is held in late February or early March on Bayshore Boulevard in Tampa, Florida. Over 30,000 competitors participate each year. [1] It is named after the Gasparilla Pirate Festival, which takes place on Tampa's Bayshore Boulevard a few weeks earlier.
Steve Roland " Pre " Prefontaine[1] (January 25, 1951 – May 30, 1975) was a US-American long-distance runner who from 1973 to 1975 set American records at every distance from 2,000 to 10,000 meters. [2][3] He competed in the 1972 Summer Olympics, [4] and was preparing for the 1976 Olympics with the Oregon Track Club at the time of his death ...
Men's athletics. Representing the United States. Pan American Games. 1951 Buenos Aires. 1500 metres. 1951 Buenos Aires. 3000 m steeplechase. Harris Browning 'Brownie' Ross (April 26, 1924 – April 27, 1998) is often referred to as the father of long-distance running in the United States. [1][2][3]
Fell running. Bill Smith (May 1936 – September 2011) was a fell runner and author on the sport. [1] [2] [3] His achievements in breaking records for the number of peaks scaled within 24 hours, contributions to fell-running events, plus documenting its history, earned him the accolade of "legend" within the sport upon his accidental death in 2011.
George Ramsay, Amanda Davies and Aleks Klosok, CNN. September 13, 2024 at 11:05 AM. When Joan Chelimo first met Rebecca Cheptegei, she remembers her fellow distance runner simply as a “normal ...
Louis Silvie Zamperini (January 26, 1917 – July 2, 2014) was an American World War II veteran, an Olympic distance runner and a Christian evangelist.He took up running in high school and qualified for the United States in the 5,000 m race for the 1936 Berlin Olympics, finishing 8th while setting a new lap record in the process.
Massive motivation: Austin runner stays busy in many ways. Tribune. Rocky Hulne, Austin Daily Herald, Minn. September 19, 2024 at 10:16 PM. Sep. 19—No matter the activity, Austin senior Marissa ...