A Race Through the Greatest Running Stories

Name: A Race Through the Greatest Running Stories
Brand: Aurum
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Damian Hall(Autor*in)

Aurum (Verlag)

Erschienen am 6. Juli 2017

176 Seiten

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Intro
Title Page
Contents
1 The Hakone Ekiden
2 The American Deer runs 11 miles in an hour
3 Ricardo Abad, the Spanish Forest Gump
4 The Spine Race
5 Charlotte Teske runs a world record time
6 Super Swede Dan Waern
7 The legendary Deerfoot dies
8 Christopher Chataway, star of 1954, dies
9 The Great Trans-Canada Race
10 Thirty-two false starts
11 Iron Joss Naylor
12 Yiannis 'Running God' Kouros is born
13 Cathy Freeman is born
14 4,000-mile run across the Sahara
15 Pam Reed, Badwater winner, is born
16 The start of the Bunion Derby
17 Edit Bérces runs on a treadmill for 24 hours
18 Yohann Diniz sets a world record
19 The first (second, third and fourth) sub-2:30 marathon(s)
20 The first women's six-day race
21 István Rózsavölgyi is born
22 The fastest run around the world
23 Plennie Wingo starts walking backwards
24 The fastest marathon in orbit
25 Bruce Tulloh runs across America
26 The fastest marathon by a vegetable
27 The longest continuous run
28 Patrick Fitzgerald uses a 'sacrificator'
29 Born to Run is published
30 A race to pick up stones
31 Grete Waitz sets half marathon record
32 Sumie Inagaki runs for 48 hours non-stop
33 First Comrades 'Marathon' run
34 The Great Wall Marathon
35 Pre's last drive
36 The 1,000-mile walk
37 Thomas Longboat is born
38 Haile Gebrselassie breaks yet another world record
39 The Barkley Marathons
40 Henry Rono breaks the 10,000m world record
41 The world's longest race
42 Timothy Olson wins Western States
43 Ernst arrives in Moscow
44 Rookie Scott Jurek wins Western States
45 Running around the world
46 Jules Ladoumègue sets 2,000m world record
47 The Complete Book of Running is released
48 Hannes Kolehmainen wins three Olympic golds
49 London's 'Austerity Games'
50 Delany-Ibbotson rematch
51 The first Badwater ultramarathon
52 Steve Ovett versus Seb Coe
53 Mo's magic moment
54 A controversial race that got even more controversial
55 Racing footmen
56 Joseph Guillemot shocks Paavo Nurmi
57 Usain Bolt does the triple
58 Ultra-Trail du Mont-Blanc
59 Egg white and brandy lead to a wobbly athlete
60 The first black African to win Olympic gold
61 The inaugural New York City Marathon
62 A marathon drinking session
63 Dean Karnazes runs 50 marathons in 50 days
64 Patrick Makau breaks marathon world record
65 The first female marathon runner?
66 Rosie Swale-Pope heads off around the world
67 John Foden runs from Athens to Sparta
68 Geronimo Jim
69 Emil Zátopek sets world record
70 Boston's first lady, Bobbi Gibb, is born
71 Wrong-way Silva
72 Bangkok's 17-mile half marathon
73 The Marathon Monks of Mount Hiei
74 Derek Clayton is born
75 The Galloping Granny is born
76 The original globe-trotter passes away
77 Rob de Castella sets world record at Fukuoka
78 Freak races
79 Kilian Jornet runs up Americas' biggest mountain
80 The Ancient Egyptian ultramarathoners
Glossary
Acknowledgements
Bibliography
Dedication
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