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Parkrun (stylised as parkrun) is a collection of 5-kilometre (3.1 mi) events for runners, walkers and volunteers that take place every Saturday morning at more than 2,000 locations in 22 countries across five continents. Parkrun was founded by Paul Sinton-Hewitt on 2 October 2004 at Bushy Park in London, England.
Carlos Martín Ballester (born 1974): 75,000 78 rpm records (carlosmb archive) plus 5,000 78 rpms records and 200 cylinders (private collection). [27] It is the largest collection of 78 rpm records pressed in Spain. Part of the archive is on sale and new items are added regularly. [28] Elton John (born 1947): 70,000 items. [29]
In November 2024, he set a new world record for Parkrun at the Victoria Park event, with a time of 13:44, one second faster than Andrew Butchart's June 2023 record. [30] He won silver in the U23 race at the 2024 European Athletics Championship in Antalya , Turkey, with his Irish team finishing fourth overall.
Fordyce also introduced the parkrun running events to South Africa in November 2011. [9] [10] This is a collection of free-entry weekly 5k run events. There are now 210 parkrun events in South Africa as of 16 October 2023. [11] Fordyce ran his 500th parkrun at Delta Park, Johannesburg, the first South African parkrun venue, on 14 October 2023. [12]
Bushy Parkrun (stylised Bushy parkrun) is a running event that takes place every Saturday morning at 9 am in Bushy Park, Teddington, London. It was the very first Parkrun , founded by Paul Sinton-Hewitt in October 2004 under its original name Bushy Park Time Trial.
On 23 December 2023, Mageean became the parkrun female record holder with a time of 15:13 set in Victoria Park, Belfast. [23] On 9 June 2024, Mageean won the gold medal in the 1500 metres at the 2024 European Athletics Championships. [24] [25] Mageean withdrew from the 2024 Summer Olympics due to an Achilles injury. [26]
Cardiff parkrun is a parkrun event that takes place every Saturday morning at 9 am in Cardiff, Wales. The parkrun was the first in Wales [ 1 ] and has become the second largest in the UK. [ 2 ] The run was started on 16 February 2008 and celebrated its 10th anniversary in 2018 with its largest ever attendance.
In the UK, labels considered collectible, such as Atlantic Records, Sun Records, Motown, and Parlophone , turned into mainstream major record labels later on in the 1960s. In the US, New York's Times Square store is widely acknowledged for feeding the doo-wop revival of the early sixties, attention focusing on them from 1959.