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Nationality | German |
Born | Bad Urach, West Germany | 18 September 1955
Sport | |
Sport | Cross-country skiing |
Dieter Notz (born 18 September 1955) is a German cross-country skier. He competed in the men's 15 kilometre event at the 1980 Winter Olympics. [1] He also competed in long-distance running, placing tenth in the short race at the 1985 World Mountain Running Trophy, 20th at the 1988 Berlin Marathon, and seventh at the Munich Marathon that same year. [2]
Aigars Fadejevs is a former Latvian athlete, competing in 20 km, 50 km walk and marathon running, and a rehabilitologist for sprinters.
Samuel Ferris was a British long-distance running athlete who competed mainly in the marathon. He was born in Magherabeg, near Dromore, County Down in Ireland. He won a silver medal for Great Britain in the marathon at the 1932 Summer Olympics.
Allan Cleave Evan Lawrence was an Australian long-distance runner. He won a bronze medal for Australia in the 1956 Summer Olympics.
Dale Warrander, sometimes incorrectly spelled Warrender, is a New Zealand long distance runner. His personal best in the marathon is 2:12.58, set in Fukuoka, 2004.
Dunky Wright, born Duncan MacLeod Wright on 22 September 1896, was a Scottish athlete who competed for Great Britain in the 1924 Summer Olympics, in the 1928 Summer Olympics, and in the 1932 Summer Olympics. He was born and died in Glasgow.
Demissie Wolde is an Ethiopian former marathon runner. He won the Košice Peace Marathon in 1969 in 2:15:37. He also competed in the 1964 Olympic marathon, having qualified by running 2:19:30 on 3 August for the 3rd place, in the Ethiopian Olympic trials, a race held at 8,000 feet. After being among the leaders for much of the 1964 Olympic race, he finished tenth in 2:21:25.2. At the 1972 Summer Olympics, he placed 18th in 2:20:44.0 in the marathon. He is the younger brother of Mamo Wolde who dropped out of the race in 1964, won the Olympic Marathon in 1968, and who finished 3rd in 1972.
Ayele Seteng is an Ethiopian-born Israeli long-distance runner who specializes in the marathon.
Mohammed Abduh Bakhet is a Qatari long-distance runner.
Mary Julie Isphording is a retired female long-distance runner from the United States. She competed for her native country at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California. However, she did not reach the finish line there. Isphording set her personal best in the classic distance (2:30:54) in 1989.
Bobbi Gibb, the first woman to have run the entire Boston Marathon, sculpted the 12-inch bronze figurines of a pony-tailed girl running that were given as trophies to Joan Benoit Samuelson, Julie Brown (athlete), and Isphording, the top three women marathoners at the US Olympic trials in 1984.
Geofrey Kusuro is a Ugandan long-distance runner. He competed at the 2008 Summer Olympics in the men's 5000 m, not reaching the final. At the 2012 Summer Olympics, he competed in the Men's 5000 metres, finishing 37th overall in Round 1, failing to qualify for the final. He also represented Uganda at the 2009 and 2011 World Championships.
Albert Robert Mills was a British long-distance runner. He competed in the marathon at the 1920 and 1924 Summer Olympics.
Nina Kathy Rillstone is a New Zealand long-distance and marathon runner. She is a national champion in both middle and long-distance running, and a national record holder for the half-marathon.
Sage Clifton Read Canaday is an American long-distance runner and ultramarathoner.
Dean Thackwray was an American long-distance runner. He competed in the marathon at the 1956 Summer Olympics. Dean Thackwray, a talented runner, secured his spot on the Olympic team by achieving a fifth-place finish at the Boston race, where he ranked as the third American participant. Additionally, he performed exceptionally well at the AAU race, coming in second. Thackwray represented both Boston University and the Boston Athletic Association during his running career.
Kanuti Sum was a Kenyan long-distance runner. He competed in the marathon at the 1956 Summer Olympics and the 1960 Summer Olympics. Outside of the Olympics, Sum was an athlete at the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games. In his events, Sum had a top eight finish in the six mile and marathon events while finishing the three miles event in eighteenth.
Chang Sop-choe is a North Korean former long-distance runner. He competed in the marathon at the 1976 Summer Olympics and the 1980 Summer Olympics.
John Campbell is a New Zealand long-distance runner. He competed in the men's marathon at the 1988 Summer Olympics.
Tommy Hughes is an Irish long-distance runner. He competed in the men's marathon at the 1992 Summer Olympics. In October 2019, aged 59, he ran the Frankfurt Marathon in a time of 2:27:52, a world record for his age. His son Eoin Hughes, aged 34, finished the same race in 2 hours 31 minutes 30 seconds. Their combined time of 4:59.22 was the fastest ever by a father-son duo in a marathon. On 24 October 2020 he ran the marathon in 2:30:02 at age 60 to break the ratified age group record by over 6 minutes.
Helmut Schmuck is an Austrian long-distance runner from Salzburg. He competed in the men's marathon at the 1992 Summer Olympics. His personal best time of 2:13.17 was set at the Vienna City Marathon in 1990. He also is a two-time Austrian national athletic champion over 10,000 meters.
Edward Eugene Mendoza is an American long-distance runner. He competed in the men's 10,000 metres at the 1976 Summer Olympics, as well as the men's marathon at the 1983 World Championships in Athletics.