In 1960 Abebe Bikila of Ethiopia won this Olympic event hands down--& barefoot
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Abebe Bikila - Wikipedia  Abebe Bikila was a double Olympic marathon champion from Ethiopia, most famous for winning a marathon gold medal in the 1960 Summer Olympics while running barefoot. ... Ethiopia. Sport, Athletics ... Abebe won in a record time of 2:15:16.2, becoming the first Sub-Saharan African to win an Olympic gold medal.
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Barefoot marathon runner's family sues Vibram - USA Today  Feb 10, 2015 ... SEATTLE (AP)  The family of an Ethiopian runner who famously won an Olympic marathon barefoot is suing ... Abebe Bikila, who died in 1973, was a last-minute entrant in the 1960 Olympics in Rome and didn't like the fit of the ... Panels to Middle Class Homeowners at No Cost DownUSSolarResource.
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J! Archive - Show #4973, aired 2006-04-05  In 1960 Abebe Bikila of Ethiopia won this Olympic event hands ... (Sarah of the Clue Crew takes a stroll down the long jump path in a track...
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Abebe Bikila Facts - Biography - YourDictionary  Abebe Bikila, the son of a shepherd, did not begin running until he was 24 years old. ... Often, Bikila and the other recruits ran barefoot over the tough, rocky soil. Bikila won his first marathon in Ethiopia's capital city of Addis Ababa in July 1960. .... in Olympic Marathon: A Centennial History of the Games' Most Storied Race,...
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50 stunning Olympic moments No24: Abebe Bikila runs barefoot into ...  Apr 25, 2012 ... Abebe Bikila draws away from Rhadi Ben Abdesselam near the end of the ... Few could have predicted when Italy hosted the 1960 Olympic Games that come the ... that of Ethiopia, it was also a triumph for Rome and the Games. ... won the marathon gold medal in the last big event of the Olympics last night.
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Ancient Olympic Games - Wikipedia  The Olympic Games were a series of athletic competitions among representatives of city-states ... The ancient Olympics had fewer events than the modern games, and only freeborn .... The first games began as an annual foot race of young women in ... The Olympic Games were more important and more prestigious than the...
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Swoopes, There It Is Sheryl's Got A Sneaker And Olympic Dreams ...  Sep 28, 1995 ... Sheryl Swoopes, one of the best basketball players in the nation, ... athlete to have a sneaker named after her as Nike unveils its ''Air Swoopes" Sunday ... And she has been selected to play on the 1996 U.S. Olympic team. ... If they win the gold medal, Swoopes hopes that will increase public acceptance of...
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WATCH: Muhammad Ali Wins 1960 Olympics Gold Medal | Heavy.com  Jun 4, 2016 ... In 1960, Muhammad Ali fought his first major fight, winning the gold medal in light-heavyweight boxing at the 1960 Olympics. ... had already made a name for himself within the American boxing world in amateur matches.
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Edwin Moses - The Guardian  May 31, 2003 ... From 1976 to 1989 Moses competed in 156 400-metre hurdle races. ... Not only did he win the Olympic gold medal - in his first international meet, and just four months after running his first 400m hurdles - he set a world record of ... win gold - naturally - at the 1983 World Championships (he won despite one...
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The Olympic Games Summary - Fact Monster  The first Olympic Games of which there is record were held in 776 B.C., and consisted of one event, a great foot race of about 200 yards held on a plain by the River Alpheus (now the Ruphia) just outside the little town of Olympia in Greece.
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Magnar SOLBERG - Olympic Biathlon | Norway  Feb 9, 1972 ... Biathlon at Grenoble 1968, Sapporo 1972 Olympics. ... policeman, surprised the biathlon world by winning the gold medal in the 20km race.
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Fatuma Roba - Wikipedia  Fatuma Roba (born 18 December 1973) is an Ethiopian long distance runner, best known for being the first African woman to win a gold medal in the women's Olympic marathon race at the Atlanta 1996 ... medal, Fatuma became the first woman from an African nation to win the women's marathon at an Olympic Games.
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Winners, Losers From XC's First Weekend | FloTrack  Sep 26, 2015 ... Running well in September doesn't guarantee success in ... She may have been well back of several girls we expected her to beat on ... Annie Bothma, a frosh from South Africa who apparently races barefoot, was just a place ... Time will tell if yesterday's race was just fool's gold, or if the Broncos are in it for...
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After the Fall - Runner's World  Aug 4, 2016 ... They ran barefoot, because all children in rural South Africa ran .... with the fact that Budd was South African, made the story irresistible. ... Mary Decker (whose 5,000-meter record Budd had bested by nearly .... DAZED AND CONFUSED A dejected Budd came in seventh in the 1984 Olympic 3,000 meter...
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Beijing 2008 Olympic Games: Mount Olympus Meets the Middle ...  Sep 6, 2016 ... At the meeting in 776 bc there was apparently only one event, a footrace ... These athletes earned substantial prizes for winning at many other preliminary ... Yet he also remarked that the law and penalty had never been invoked. ..... The first recorded Olympic champion was Coroebus of Elis, winner of a...
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LeRoy Walker was a man of Olympian achievement - tribunedigital ...  Apr 24, 2012 ... The day Dr. LeRoy Walker, then 74, became the first black president of the U.S. ... not long after Walker had criticized the USOC-backed idea of having NBA and ... Head coach of the 1976 U.S. Olympic men's track and field team. ... the Olympic track teams of Israel, Ethiopia, Jamaica, Trinidad & Tobago and...
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1960 Winter Olympics - Wikipedia  The 1960 Winter Olympics was a winter multi-sport event held between February 1828, 1960 .... One of the conditions for a unified German team was that the athletes be ... This was the first Olympic gold medal in ice hockey for the United States and it ... Biathlon took its place and was instated as a full Olympic sport in 1960.
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History | Alpine Canada Alpin  Please note, complete lists of all medal winners are located at the bottom of this page. ... In 1960, Anne Heggtveit became the first Canadian to win an Olympic gold ... and proved to the world that you didn't need to be European to win ski races. ... to win an Olympic medal in men's alpine after claiming bronze in downhill at...
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Stockholm 1912 Summer Olympics - results & video highlights  The Swedish hosts introduced the first Olympic use of automatic timing ... Native American from Oklahoma, won the pentathlon and decathlon by huge margins.
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Title: Untitled Olympic Games were held throughout Ancient Greece ...  ... Olympic contests, but traditionrecognizes that the first Olympiad was held in 776 B.C. (Anderson, Dave.) p. 40 It consisted of one event, a 200-yard foot race,...
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The Decathlon in Olympic History - DECA, The Decathlon Association  events and won gold medals in the first Olympic decathlon and pentathlon. A year later he was stripped of his Olympic records and medals when it was ..... world-record holder Rafer Johnson at the 1956 Melbourne Olympic Games. ... up from silver to gold, winning the decathlon at the 1960 Olympic Games in Rome, Italy.