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Two of the album's ten songs have been issued on CD: "Long Distance Winner" was released as part of Nicks' Enchanted box set; and "Stephanie" turned up on a promotional-only CD release by Buckingham entitled Words and Music (A Retrospective), although this was from a vinyl transfer as well.
Salvatore Antibo, winner of 5000 m 10,000 double at 1990 European Championships in Athletics in Split; Saïd Aouita, ranked among the world's best at all distances between 800 metres and 5000 m in the 1980s, a gold medalist at the 1984 Olympics, and like Nurmi, was the world record holder for 1500 m, 3:29.46 in 1985, and 5000 m, 13:00.40 in 1985 and 12:58.39 in 1987
Sir Mohamed Muktar Jama Farah [6] (born Hussein Abdi Kahin; [7] 23 March 1983) is a Somali-British former long-distance runner.Considered one of the greatest runners of all time, his ten global championship gold medals (four Olympic and six World titles) make him the most successful male track distance runner in the history of the sport, and he is the most successful British track athlete in ...
The World Long Drive Championship is an annual ... James only needed to keep one in play at a minimum distance of 270 yards. ... First-time winners in this time ...
Shorter was inducted into the United States Olympic Hall of Fame in 1984, the USA National Track and Field Hall of Fame in 1989, [8] and the National Distance Running Hall of Fame in 1998. Previously a long-time resident of Boulder, Colorado, Shorter co-founded the Bolder Boulder in 1979. The annual 10k race is a popular Memorial Day event ...
The winner of the men's Olympic 10,000 m has completed a long-distance track double on nine occasions, the most recent being Farah at the 2016 Rio Olympics. Tirunesh Dibaba and Sifan Hassan are the only women to complete this double (at the 2008 Beijing Olympics and the 2020 Tokyo Olympics).
In 1984, he was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia "for long distance running". [11] In 1997, at age 75, [12] he made an attempt to beat Ron Grant's around-Australia record. He completed 6,520 kilometres of the 16,000-kilometre run, but had to pull out because his only crew member became ill. [3]
Mebrahtom "Meb" Keflezighi (/ ˈ m ɛ b k ə ˈ f l ɛ z ɡ i /; Tigrinya: መብራህቶም ክፍለዝጊ, Mebrāhtōm Kifl'izgī; born May 5, 1975) is a retired American long distance runner. He is the 2004 Olympic silver medalist in the marathon and finished in fourth place in the 2012 Summer Olympics.