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EVENT ATHLETE MARK DATE VENUE 5000m David Moorcroft (GBR) 13:00:41: July 7 Oslo, Norway : Half Marathon Michael Musyoki (KEN) 1:01:36: September 19 Philadelphia, United States
The Olympic Games, part of the Olympic movement, was the first major, modern, multi-sport event of international significance. A multi-sport event is an organized sporting event, often held over multiple days, featuring competition in many different sports between organized teams of athletes from (mostly) nation-states.
Sports organizations established in 1982 (2 C, 31 P) Recurring sporting events disestablished in 1982 (1 C, 25 P) Recurring sporting events established in 1982 (2 C, 148 P)
Aquatics at the 1982 Commonwealth Games ← 1978 1986 → The Aquatics events at the 1982 Commonwealth Games were held at the new Chandler Aquatic Centre that was part of the Sleeman Sports Complex which had been purpose-built for the games. Swimming The following are the Swimming medal winners at the 1982 Commonwealth Games: Medal summary * Host nation (Australia) Rank Nation Gold Silver ...
1982 Kangaroo tour of Great Britain and France; 1982 KB Cup; 1982 New Zealand rugby league season; 1982 NSWRFL season – Parramatta Eels win their second title, defeating Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles 21-8 in the final. 1981–82 Rugby Football League season / 1982–83 Rugby Football League season; 1982 State of Origin series
The 9th Asian Games (Hindi: नौवें एशियाई खेल), also known as Delhi 1982 (Hindi: दिल्ली 1982), were held from 19 November to 4 December 1982, in Delhi, India. 74 Asian and Asian Games records were broken at the event. This was also the first Asiad to be held under the aegis of the Olympic Council of Asia.
Dr. Tom Waddell, the former Olympian who helped found the games, intended them to be called the "Gay Olympics", but a lawsuit filed less than three weeks before 1982's inaugural Gay Olympics forced the name change. [5] Event organizers were sued by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) under the U.S. Amateur Sports Act of 1978, which gave ...
In the SVG file, tap or hover over a city to show its name (only on the desktop). The following is a list of host cities of the Olympic Games, both summer and winter, since the modern Olympics began in 1896. Since then, summer and winter games have usually celebrated a four-year period known as an Olympiad.