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unusual facts about middle distance



Abebech Negussie

Abebech Negussie (born 2 January 1983 in Arsi) is a retired Ethiopian middle distance runner, who specialized in 1500 metres.

Dragan Zdravković

Dragan Zdravković (born December 16, 1959 in Senjski Rudnik) is a former middle distance runner from Yugoslavia.

Éric Dubus

Éric Dubus (born 28 February 1966 in Pézenas, Hérault) is a former French middle distance runner, who became European Indoor Champion over 3.000m in 1990, and was the silver medalist over 3.000m at the 1993 IAAF World Indoor Championships.

Greg Duhaime

Greg Duhaime (born August 11, 1953 in Espanola, Ontario – died October 28, 1992 of AIDS) was a Canadian middle distance runner, onetime Canadian record holder in the 3000 metres steeplechase.

Ken Swenson

Kenneth ("Ken") Lloyd Swenson (born April 18, 1948 in Clay Center, Kansas) is a retired middle distance runner from the United States, who represented his native country at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, West Germany.

Olympic Park Stadium

Australian middle distance star John Landy featured in a memorable race at the 1956 National Championships, where he stopped during the Mile championship to assist the fallen junior champion, Ron Clarke.

Paul Korir

Paul Kipketer Korir (born July 15, 1977 in Kipkoror, near Lessos, Nandi District in the Rift Valley Province) is a middle distance athlete from Kenya.

Timothy Benjamin

Benjamin is married to a sweetheart from his schooldays, Natalie Lewis, an accomplished Welsh middle distance specialist in her own right.


see also

Acea

Raidel Acea (born 1990), Cuban sprinter and middle distance runner

Adauto Domingues

Adauto Domingues (born 20 May 1961 in São Caetano do Sul) is a retired middle-distance runner from Brazil, who twice won the gold medal in the men's 3.000 metres steeplechase at the Pan American Games: in 1987 and 1991.

Alemayehu

Alemayehu Roba (born 1972), retired Ethiopian middle-distance runner

Alfred Kirwa Yego

Alfred Kirwa Yego (born 28 November 1986 in Eldoret) is a Kenyan middle distance runner who specializes in the 800 metres.

Aunese Curreen

Aunese Curreen (born December 23, 1981 in Motootua) is a Samoan middle distance runner, who specialized in the 800 metres.

BALCO scandal

Athletes including Kelli White, British sprinter Dwain Chambers, shot putter Kevin Toth, middle distance runner Regina Jacobs, and hammer throwers John McEwen and Melissa Price were subsequently incriminated in the investigation.

Christine Stückelberger

She is the fifth Swiss sportsperson to compete at five Olympics, after middle-distance runner Paul Martin, equestrians Henri Chammartin and Gustav Fischer, and javelin thrower Urs von Wartburg.

Claudia Gesell

Claudia Andrea Barbara Gesell (born 18 December 1977 in Tirschenreuth) is a former German middle distance runner who specialised in the 800 metres.

Colomán Trabado

Colomán Trabado Pérez (born January 2, 1958 in Vega de Valcarce, El Bierzo, León Province) is a retired middle distance runner from Spain.

Daniel Kipchirchir Komen

Daniel Kipchirchir Komen (born November 27, 1984 in Chemorgong, Koibatek District) is a Kenyan middle distance runner who specializes in the 1500 metres.

Dieter Fromm

Dieter Fromm (born 21 April 1948 in Bad Langensalza, Thuringia) is a retired East German middle distance runner who specialized in the 800 metres.

Dream Mile

This was described by Duncan Mackay in The Observer as "...a race to rival the 'Miracle Mile' taking middle-distance running into a new era. To many it still remains the greatest 1,500m race ever."

Edenderry

Ron Delany (athlete, middle distance runner, winner gold medal 1500 meters at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne)

Elfi Zinn

Elfi Zinn, née Rost (born 24 August 1953 in Rathebur) is a German middle distance runner who specialized in the 800 metres.

Élodie Guégan

Élodie Guégan (born December 19, 1985 in Ploemeur, Morbihan) is a French middle distance runner, who specialized in the 800 metres.

Fatima Aouam

Fatima Aouam (born December 16, 1959) is a former female middle distance runner from Morocco Settat Guisser.

Frank Horwill

Frank J. Horwill MBE (19 June 1927 – 1 January 2012) was a UK Athletics senior level 4 coach most famous for founding the British Milers' Club (BMC) and for formulating the Five Pace Training Theory which is widely used for coaching middle-distance runners throughout the world.

Gabriele Bühlmann

She is, jointly with equestrian Markus Fuchs, the seventh Swiss sportsperson to compete at five Olympics, after middle-distance runner Paul Martin, equestrians Henri Chammartin and Gustav Fischer, javelin thrower Urs von Wartburg, equestrian Christine Stückelberger, and Alpine skier Paul Accola.

Guldberg

Mogens Guldberg (born 1963), former middle distance runner from Denmark

Habte Jifar

Habte Jifar (born January 29, 1976 in Ambo, Ethiopia) is an Ethiopian middle distance runner.

Hans-Peter Ferner

Hans-Peter Ferner (born June 6, 1956, Neuburg an der Donau, Bavaria) is a (West) German former middle distance runner who won the gold medal over 800 m at the 1982 European Championships in Athletics in Athens where he unexpectedly defeated world-record holder Sebastian Coe.

Henri Arnaud

Henri Arnaud (athlete) (1891-1956), French middle distance runner, represented France at the 1912 Summer Olympics

Hildegard Körner

Hildegard Körner, née Ullrich (born 20 December 1959 in Urnshausen) is a retired East German middle distance runner who specialized in the 800 metres.

Jack Redshaw

His cousin is Charlene Thomas who is an English middle distance runner who competes internationally for Great Britain.

Jasmin Salihović

Jasmin Salihović (born 18 February 1980) is a Bosnian retired middle-distance track runner who specialized in the 800 metres.

Jonathan David

The lead track gets its name from the biblical duo of Jonathan and David, while "The Loneliness of a Middle Distance Runner" is a reference to Alan Sillitoe's short story "The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner."

Julie Culley

Raised in Lebanon, New Jersey, she lived in Arlington, Virginia and trained under Olympic runner and current American University coach Matt Centrowitz, training with fellow American middle distance runner Lindsey Gallo.

Kemei

William Kemei (born 1969), Kenyan middle-distance runner and 1991 All-Africa Games champion

Kibet

Shedrack Kibet Korir (born 1978), Kenyan middle-distance runner and 2007 World Championships medallist

Kjersti Plätzer

Born in Os, Hordaland, she is the older sister of Erik Tysse and is married to former German middle distance runner Stephan Plätzer, who is also her coach.

Ksenia Chernykh

Chernykh competed at the 2004 World MTB Orienteering Championships in Ballarat, where she placed 27th in the middle distance and 50th in the long distance.

Mark Blicavs

Prior to being recruited by Geelong, Blicavs was a middle-distance runner and steeplechaser, who attempted to qualify for the 2012 Summer Olympics.

Nadiya Volynska

At the World Games in 2013 she won a bronze medal in the middle distance, behind Minna Kauppi and Tove Alexandersson, and ahead of Anne Margrethe Hausken Nordberg.

Njie

Adama Njie (born 1978) a retired Gambian middle distance runner

Old Red Lion Theatre

At this time descriptions state that the Old Red Lion was a small brick house with three trees in its forecourt, visited by William Hogarth (who portrayed it in the middle distance of his painting "Evening", with the foreground being Sadler's Wells), Samuel Johnson and Thomas Paine (who wrote The Rights of Man in the shade of the trees in its forecourt).

Olga Novikova

At the 2004 Junior World Championships in S-chanf she won silver medals in both the long and the middle distance.

Øivind

Tor Øivind Ødegård (born 1969), retired Norwegian middle distance runner

Patrick Konchellah

Patrick Konchellah (April 20, 1968 – November 29, 2009 in Bomet) was a Kenyan middle distance runner.

Rasmus Thrane Hansen

At the World Games in 2013 he placed fourth in the middle distance, an won a silver medal in the mixed relay with the Danish team.

Ron Warhurst

In 2005, middle distance runner Nick Willis from New Zealand won the NCAA indoor championship in the mile run.

Ruto

Paul Ruto (born 1960), Kenyan middle-distance runner and 1993 world champion

Sergey Pakura

He ran in the seventh heat, against six other athletes including American middle-distance runner Andrew Wheating, and Robert Lathouwers of the Netherlands.

Thamer

Thamer Kamal Ali (born 1988), Qatari middle distance runner who specializes in the 1500 metres

Tobias Breitschädel

At the 2011 World MTB Orienteering Championships in Vicenza, he won a bronze medal in the middle distance, behind Samuli Saarela from Finland and Ruslan Gritsan from Russia.

Vilius Aleliūnas

At the World Games in 2013 he won a bronze medal in the middle distance, behind Matthias Kyburz and Daniel Hubmann, and ahead of Rasmus Thrane Hansen.

Wassila Rédouane-Saïd-Guerni

In March 2001 she married to retired middle distance runner Djabir Saïd-Guerni.

Werner Lueg

Werner Lueg (born 16 September 1931 in Brackwede, near Bielefeld) is a former West German middle distance runner who equalised Lennart Strand's and Gunder Hägg's 1500 m world record in 3:43.0 min in Berlin in 1952.