• This is a list of people who compete professionally in long-distance running, or if not professional have won top level international medals or other such...
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  • The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner is a 1962 British coming-of-age film directed by Tony Richardson, one of the new young directors emerging from...
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  • known primarily for running marathons, see List of marathoners or Category:Long-distance runners. Some of these people have competed in more than one...
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    ultra distance or ultra running, is a footrace longer than the traditional marathon length of 42.195 kilometres (26 mi 385 yd). Various distances, surfaces...
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  • Rose Harvey (category English female long-distance runners)
    25 August 1992) is a British long-distance runner. In 2023, she became the fifth fastest British female marathon runner of all time. Between 2008 and 2010...
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    triathlon is an endurance multisport race consisting of swimming, cycling, and running over various distances. Triathletes compete for fastest overall completion...
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    Efrem Gidey (category Irish male long-distance runners)
    Efrem Gidey (born 3 September 2000) is an Irish long distance runner. Gidey fled Eritrea as a refugee in 2016 and spent six months at a refugee camp in...
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  • a futuristic, Blade Runner-inspired environment. Much like the cover of Powerslave, the wraparound album cover holds a plethora of references to earlier...
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  • Long-distance motorcyclists with Wikipedia articles, with tours in chronological order. Rafferty, Tod (1999). The Complete Illustrated Encyclopedia of...
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    Paavo Nurmi (category Finnish male long-distance runners)
    a Finnish middle-distance and long-distance runner. He was called the "Flying Finn" or the "Phantom Finn", as he dominated distance running in the 1920s...
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    Onondaga distance runner from the Six Nations Reserve near Brantford, Ontario and, for much of his career, the dominant long-distance runner. He was known...
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  • Budhia Singh (category Indian male long-distance runners)
    Indian long-distance runner who became notable for his athletic feats as a child. He has been acclaimed as the world's youngest marathon runner. He ran...
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  • Founded in 1958, the Road Runners Club of America (RRCA) is the oldest and largest distance running organization in the United States with over 1,500...
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  • The World Long Distance Mountain Running Championships (from 2004 up to 2014 the name was World Long Distance Mountain Running Challenge), is an annual...
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    Conner Mantz (category American male long-distance runners)
    Conner Blair Mantz (born December 8, 1996) is an American long-distance runner, who specializes in the marathon. He ran collegiately for Brigham Young...
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  • Ronald Moreton Grant OAM (born 1943) is an Australian long distance runner. In 1983, Ron Grant ran 13,383 km (8,316 mi) around Australia in 217 days. He...
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    Marathon (redirect from Marathon distance)
    Μαραθώνιος) is a long-distance foot race with a distance of 42.195 km (26 mi 385 yd), usually run as a road race, but the distance can be covered on...
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    Gulnara Samitova-Galkina (category Russian female long-distance runners)
    Championships medalists (women) List of 5000 metres national champions (women) List of long-distance runners List of Tatars List of Russian sportspeople Dolgopolov...
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    5K run (category Long-distance running distances)
    The 5K run is a long-distance road running competition over a distance of five kilometres (3.107 mi). Also referred to as the 5K road race, 5 km, or simply...
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    was an American long-distance runner. He was most notable for competing in the 1912 Olympics in Stockholm. He was also the father of Hart wrestling family...
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    Justyn Knight (category Canadian male long-distance runners)
    long-distance track runner. A successful collegiate runner during his time at Syracuse University, he was the school's most-decorated distance runner...
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  • throwers Javelin throwers Male hurdlers Marathoners Long-distance runners Middle-distance runners Sprinters Racing drivers Triathletes Tennis players...
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    Self-Transcendence 3100 Mile Race (category CS1: long volume value)
    Central Parkway — a distance of 0.5488 miles (883 m) — while the streets are in normal use. The runners have 52 days to complete the distance, running from...
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    Grant Fisher (category American male long-distance runners)
    April 22, 1997) is a Canadian-born American professional middle- and long-distance runner. He holds the American national records for the 5,000 (12:46.96)...
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    Mo Farah (category British male long-distance runners)
    March 1983) is a Somali-born British retired long-distance runner. Considered one of the greatest runners of all time, his ten global championship gold...
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  • Alexander Mutiso Munyao (category Kenyan male long-distance runners)
    (born 10 September 1996) is a Kenyan long-distance runner who specializes in road running. His personal best of 57:59 in the half marathon set at the...
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    Paul Tergat (category Kenyan male long-distance runners)
    one of the most accomplished long-distance runners of all time. Runnerworld called him the "Most comprehensive runner of all time". Towards the end of his...
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    "Confirmed: Alan Webb Has Joined Jerry Schumacher's Group and Is Focused on Longer Distances". LetsRun.com. January 15, 2013. "Webb to retire at Millrose". flotrack...
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  • Melkeneh Azize (category Ethiopian male long-distance runners)
    Melkeneh Azize (born 1 January 2005) is an Ethiopian long-distance runner. In 2022, he became the World U20 Champion in the 3000 metres. He won the bronze...
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    College as a special student. On April 19, 1898, MacDonald was one of 24 runners who gathered in Ashland, Massachusetts, to start the second Boston Marathon...
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