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1932 Aug 7 |
Abebe Bikila (d.1973), barefoot runner from Ethiopia, winner of the 1960 Olympic marathon, was born. Links: Ethiopia, Runners 
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1940 |
In the San Francisco Bay to Breakers race Bobbie Burke ran disguised as a man because women weren’t allowed to participate. Her boyfriend, Ed Preston, won the race. Links: USA, Women, SF, Runners
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1960 Sep 10 |
Abebe Bikila (1932-1973), barefoot runner from Ethiopia, won the Olympic marathon. Links: Italy, Ethiopia, Olympics, Runners
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1964 |
The San Francisco Cross City Race was renamed the Bay to Breakers race. Links: USA, SF, Runners
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1971 |
The San Francisco Bay to Breakers race sponsors were pressured to add a women’s division. Dr. Frances Conley won with a time of 54:45. Links: USA, Women, SF, Runners
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1972 |
Steve Prefontaine, a University of Oregon runner and middle-distance running prodigy, became Nike's first endorsed athlete. Links: USA, Oregon, Shoes, Runners
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1973 Oct 2 |
Paavo "Flying Finn" Nurmi (b.1897), Finnish runner, died. He won a total of 9 Olympic gold medals and 3 silver medals between 1920 and 1928. Links: Olympics, Finland, Runners
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1974 |
Patricia Nell Warren published the groundbreaking gay novel "The Front Runner." It was about a gay track coach who falls in love with his star runner. Links: USA, Gays, Writer, Books, Runners
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1975 May 30 |
Steve Prefontaine (b.1951), American long distance runner, flipped his gold MG and died at age 24. Tests revealed that he was legally drunk. In 1997 two films based on his life were released. Links: USA, Liquor, Drunk, Runners
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1978 May 14 |
Gerard Barrett of Australia won the 68th annual San Francisco Bay to Breakers race in a record 35 min., 17 sec. There were 9,738 official entrants with some 4,000 unofficial runners. 13 members of the UC Davis track team tied themselves together and became the first centipede to run in the race. Links: Australia, USA, SF, Runners
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1981 Mar 29 |
The first London 26.2 mile marathon was run with nearly 7,500 participants. Links: Britain, Runners
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1993 Jul 10 |
Kenyan runner Yobes Ondieki became the first man to run 10,000 meters in less than 27 minutes. Links: Kenya, World Record, Runners
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1999 |
The film "Endurance" was written and directed by Leslie Woodhead and was the story of Ethiopian long-distance runner and Olympics gold medalist Haile Gebrselassie. Links: Ethiopia, Runners
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2000 Sep 15 |
In Australia the XXVII Olympic Games opened in Sidney. The 2000 Summer Olympics opened with a seemingly endless parade of athletes and coaches and a spectacular display that included wild fantasy, blazing color, and booming cheers; Aborigine runner Cathy Freeman ignited an Olympic ring of fire. Links: Australia, Olympics, Runners
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2004 Aug 29 |
Closing ceremonies were held in Athens, Greece, for the 28th Olympiad. During one of the final events, lead marathon runner Vanderlie Lima of Brazil was pushed into the crowd by an intruder, but managed to finish 3rd behind Stefano Baldini of Italy. Links: Brazil, Olympics, Greece, Runners
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2007 Jan 4 |
Musir Salem Jawher (28) from Bahrain won the 30th International Tiberias Marathon, around the Sea of Galilee. The Kenyan runner (Leonard Mucheru), adopted by Bahrain 4 years earlier, faced anger from Bahrain for running in an Israeli marathon. Links: Bahamas, Bahrain, Kenya, Israel, Runners
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2007 Apr 22 |
Zhou Chunxiu made history as the first Chinese runner to win the London marathon as she came home in 2hrs 20min 38sec, finishing ahead of Ethiopia's Gete Wami and Romanian Constantina Tomescu-Dita. Links: Britain, China, Runners
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2008 Oct 19 |
In San Francisco over 20,000 runners took part in the 5th annual Nike’s Women’s Marathon. They raised over $18 million for leukemia and lymphoma research. Arien O’Connell (24) of NYC ran the fastest time, but did not win because she did not register as an “elite” runner. On Oct 22 Nike recognized O’Connell as “a winner” in the race. Links: USA, NYC, SF, Medical, Shoes, Runners
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2009 Feb 11 |
Officials in Uruguay said a Cuban long-distance runner and track coach have disappeared and apparently intend to defect. Aguelmis Rojas and Rafael Diaz had arrived in January on a sports exchange program in Maldonado. Links: Cuba, Uruguay, Runners
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2009 May 17 |
In San Francisco’s 98th Bay to Breakers race Sammy Kitwara (22) of Kenya won with a time of 33 minutes, 31 seconds. Teyba Erkesso (26) of Ethiopia was the fastest woman at 38:29. An estimated 62,000 ran as revelers swilled beer despite rules banning alcohol in the 7.5-mile. Street cleaners gathered up some 13 tons of garbage. Links: USA, SF, Runners
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2009 Sep 11 |
In South Africa reports on gender testing on running sensation Caster Semenya has determined she has male and female sexual organs. This triggered outrage and dealt a blow to her family, who may have been unaware of the reported condition. There was worry about how the 18-year-old will handle all this. Testing determined that Semenya has internal testes, meaning the runner herself, who was raised in a poor village, may have been unaware of such a condition. The condition is generally referred to as intersexuality. The older term for someone who has both male and female organs is hermaphrodite. Links: South Africa, Sex, Runners
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2009 Nov 1 |
Meb Keflezighi (27), an Eritrean born American citizen, won the New York City Marathon (2:09:15). Derartu Tulu of Ethiopia was the women's winner (2:28:52). Links: USA, Ethiopia, NYC, Runners
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2010 May 16 |
In San Francisco some 60,000 people participated in the 99th Bay to Breakers run. Lineth Chepkurui (22) of Kenya broke her record in the 12-km run with a time of 38 min. and 7 sec. Sammy Kitwara was the winner for the men. Links: USA, Kenya, SF, Runners
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2012 Jul 5 |
Steve Cannon (46) of Des Moines, Iowa, completed a 40-day, 1,037-mile run around Lake Michigan. He started and ended his trek at Caray’s Tavern in Chicago. Links: USA, Chicago, Michigan, Iowa, Runners
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2014 Apr 21 |
In Massachusetts more than 32,000 hit the streets in the first Boston Marathon since last year’s deadly bombing. Links: USA, Massachusetts, Runners
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2018 Mar 3 |
Sir Roger Bannister (88), the first runner to break the mythical 4-minute barrier in the mile, died peacefully in Oxford. On May 6, 1954, Bannister's time of 3 minutes, 59.4 seconds captured the world's imagination and buoyed the spirits of Britons still suffering through post-war austerity. Links: Britain, Runners
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2021 Oct 3 |
Ethiopia's Sisay Lemma won the men's London Marathon in a time of two hours, four minutes and one second after breaking away from the leading pack late in the race. Links: Britain, Ethiopia, Runners
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2021 Oct 13 |
Athletics Kenya said long-distance runner Agnes Tirop (25), Kenya's two-times World Championship bronze medalist, was found stabbed to death at her home. She was allegedly stabbed by her husband. Links: Kenya, Murder, Runners
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2021 Nov 7 |
In NYC Peres Jepchirchir, who won gold at the Tokyo Olympics, took first at the New York City Marathon among women. Albert Korir, also from Kenya, won the men’s race. Links: USA, Kenya, NYC, Runners
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2021 Nov 21 |
Uganda's Jacob Kiplimo shaved one second off the world half-marathon record when he clocked 57 minutes 31 seconds in the Lisbon Half Marathon road race. Links: Portugal, Uganda, Runners
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2022 Apr 18 |
Peres Jepchirchir of Kenya won the women’s race in a sprint to the finish at the Boston Marathon. Evans Chebet of Kenya won the men’s race. Links: USA, Kenya, Massachusetts, Runners
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2022 Apr 19 |
Kenya's police said Damaris Muthee Mutua (28), a Kenyan-born Bahraini runner, has been found dead in Iten. Police said her Ethiopian boyfriend is a suspect. Eskinder Hailemaryam Folie, who had allegedly confessed to the killing, had been training at the same facility and has since fled Kenya. Links: Kenya, Murder, Runners
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2022 Jul 24 |
More than 24,000 runners took part in the San Francisco Marathon. The men’s top finisher was Simon Ricci with a time of 2:31:42. Brooke Starn won the women’s categoy with a time of 2:44:38. Links: USA, SF, Runners
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2022 Sep 25 |
In Germany Eliud Kipchoge (37) of Kenyan won the Berlin Marathon, for the fourth time, in 2 hours 1 minute 9 seconds, a world record. Links: Germany, Kenya, Runners
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2022 Oct 2 |
Amos Kipruto of Kenya won his first London Marathon title and Ethiopia's Yalemzerf Yehualaw (23) stormed to victory in the women's race ahead of last year's winner Joyciline Jepkosgei. A runner from Southeast England collapsed after the 23-mile mark and soon died. Links: Britain, Ethiopia, Kenya, Runners
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2022 Nov 4 |
Tunisia said it has signed a $74 million loan with the Arab Monetary Fund, a regional lender, to support public finance reforms. Links: Runners
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2022 Nov 6 |
In the NYC Marathon Chebet of Kenya won in 2 hours 8 minutes 41 seconds to complete a clean sweep for Kenyan men in the six world marathon majors this year. Sharon Lokedi of Kenya won in 2:23:23. Links: USA, Kenya, NYC, Runners
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