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Running Races and Achievements
Running Races and Achievements
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What do you know about running events and world records?
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Handicapped from polio as a child, she won the 100m and 200m events in Rome in 1960.
Wilma Rudolph
Marita Koch
Florence Griffith-Joyner
Paula Radcliffe
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In the 5k, Kenenisa Bekele and Tirunesh Dibaba hold the records. What country are they from?
Mexico
Ethiopia
Kenya
Eritrea
3
This person was the first to run a mile in less than four minutes.
Carl Lewis
Usain Bolt
Jim Hines
Roger Bannister
4
The Ironman consists of which distances?
2.5 mile swim, 250 mile bike, 25 mile run
6 mile swim, 200 mile bike, 50 mile run
2.4 mile swim, 112 mile bike, 26.2 mile run
1.5 mile swim, 50 mile bike, 26.2 mile run
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How long is a 400m race?
3.1 miles
One full lap around a regulation track
Two full laps around a regulation track
One mile
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Any running race longer than 26.2 miles is called:
Ironman
Crazy
Ultramarathon
Supermarathon
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This runner won gold in the 100m in the 1936 Olympic games in Berlin.
Jim Hines
Michael Johnson
Jesse Owens
Carl Lewis
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This athlete won gold medals in the 100m and the long jump from 1984 until 1996.
Michael Johnson
Jim Bannister
Carl Lewis
Jesse Owens
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Which events are included in a triathlon?
swim,bike,run
ski,shoot,swim
bike,climb,run
swim,run,shoot
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Legend has it this messenger ran from Marathon to Athens, said "we have won", and died.
Pheidippides
Heraclides
Pythagoras
Apollo