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1986 IAAF World Challenge Road Relay
The 1986 IAAF World Challenge Road Relay was a one-off global, international marathon relay competition, organised by the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF). It marked the first time that the IAAF had formally hosted an ekiden competition, and preceded the formation of a world championship event, the IAAF World Road Relay Championships six years later. The event took place on 30 November in Hiroshima, Japan. Each men's national team consisted of five athletes and each women's national team consisted of six athletes who alternately covered stages varying between 4.195 and 12.195 kilometres each to complete the 42.195 km marathon distance. The first four stages were of the same length for both sexes, with legs of 10 km, 8 km, 7 km, and 5 km opening the competition. The fifth and final leg for men was over 12.195 km while this distance was split into two final legs for women of 8 km and 4.195 km.
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Marathon Relay
is a long-distance running multi-stage relay race, mostly held on roads.Otake, Tomoko. ''One for All.'' Dec. 28, 200The Japan Times accessed Feb. 19, 2009. The original Japanese term had nothing to do with a sport or a competition, but it simply referred to the age old post-horse or stagecoach courier system which transmitted communication by stages, instead of one horse or a man covering the entire long distance. ''Eki'' means "station" and ''den'' translates as "to communicate, to convey", therefore Ekiden could be roughly translated as ''Station to station''. The original meaning of the word is reflected in its rule where each runner at the end of his or her run has to pass down his sash to the next runner. The first ever Ekiden as a sport was held in Japan in 1917 as a 3-day, 23-stage run from Kyoto to Tokyo over , to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Tokyo's establishment as the nation's capital (previously Kyoto was the imperial seat). Today Ekiden is a national ...
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Karl Harrison (runner)
Karl Harrison (born 20 February 1964) is an English former professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1980s and 1990s, and coached in the 2000s and 2010s. He played at representative level for both Great Britain and England, and at club level for Bramley, Featherstone Rovers ( Heritage 619), Hull F.C. ( Heritage №) (two spells) and Halifax ( Heritage № 1028), as a . and has coached at representative level for England, and at club level for Halifax Blue Sox (assistant coach), the Keighley Cougars, the Bradford Bulls (assistant coach), the Salford City Reds, the Huddersfield Giants (Senior Scholarship Coach), the Batley Bulldogs and Halifax. Harrison is a Halifax Hall of Fame Inductee. Background Harrison was born in Leeds, West Riding of Yorkshire, England. He attended Morley Grammar School, where he began playing rugby union. He is married to Suzanne and they have two sons; Samuel (born September 1992), and James (born June 1995). Playing career Karl Harriso ...
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Oceania
Oceania (, , ) is a region, geographical region that includes Australasia, Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia. Spanning the Eastern Hemisphere, Eastern and Western Hemisphere, Western hemispheres, Oceania is estimated to have a land area of and a population of around 44.5 million as of 2021. When compared with (and sometimes described as being one of) the continents, the region of Oceania is the smallest in land area and the list of continents and continental subregions by population, second least populated after Antarctica. Its major population centres are Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth, Auckland, Adelaide, Honolulu, and Christchurch. Oceania has a diverse mix of economies from the developed country, highly developed and globally competitive market economy, financial markets of Australia, French Polynesia, Hawaii, Hawaii, New Caledonia, and New Zealand, which rank high in quality of life and Human Development Index, to the much least developed countries, less developed ...
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Mark Scrutton
Mark may refer to: Currency * Bosnia and Herzegovina convertible mark, the currency of Bosnia and Herzegovina * East German mark, the currency of the German Democratic Republic * Estonian mark, the currency of Estonia between 1918 and 1927 * Finnish markka ( sv, finsk mark, links=no), the currency of Finland from 1860 until 28 February 2002 * Mark (currency), a currency or unit of account in many nations * Polish mark ( pl, marka polska, links=no), the currency of the Kingdom of Poland and of the Republic of Poland between 1917 and 1924 German * Deutsche Mark, the official currency of West Germany from 1948 until 1990 and later the unified Germany from 1990 until 2002 * German gold mark, the currency used in the German Empire from 1873 to 1914 * German Papiermark, the German currency from 4 August 1914 * German rentenmark, a currency issued on 15 November 1923 to stop the hyperinflation of 1922 and 1923 in Weimar Germany * Lodz Ghetto mark, a special currency for Lodz Ghetto. * ...
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Bekele Debele
Bekele Debele (born 12 March 1963) is an Ethiopian former long-distance runner who specialised in cross country running. His greatest achievement was winning the gold medal at the 1983 IAAF World Cross Country Championships, becoming only the second African man to do so. During his career he was selected for Ethiopia at every edition of the IAAF World Cross Country Championships from 1982 to 1989. He helped win the junior team title in 1982 and shared in the senior team medals from 1983 to 1989, including a three-year undefeated streak for the Ethiopian senior team from 1983 to 1985. He also competed in the 10,000 metres and represented Ethiopia in that event at the 1983 World Championships in Athletics. He was the bronze medallist on the track at the Friendship Games, having missed the 1984 Summer Olympics due to Ethiopia's boycott of the games. Career Early life Bekele was born into an Eastern Orthodox family of rural farmers in Shewa and was raised alongside his two broth ...
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Debebe Demisse
Debebe Demisse (born 1968) is a retired Ethiopia Ethiopia, , om, Itiyoophiyaa, so, Itoobiya, ti, ኢትዮጵያ, Ítiyop'iya, aa, Itiyoppiya officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, is a landlocked country in the Horn of Africa. It shares borders with Eritrea to the Er ...n cross country and marathon runner. Achievements References External links * 1968 births Living people Ethiopian male long-distance runners 20th-century Ethiopian people {{Ethiopia-athletics-bio-stub ...
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Tatyana Samolenko
Tetyana Apaycheva (née Khamitova, Divorced Samolenko and Dorovskykh, ua, Тетяна Володимирівна Апайчева, née Хамітова, born 12 August 1961) is a Ukrainian retired middle-distance runner who represented the Soviet Union until 1991, the Unified Team in 1992, and later Ukraine. She is the 1988 Olympic champion in the 3000 metres. Career As Tetyana Samolenko, she was the leading female middle-distance runner of the late 1980s. She is the 1988 Olympic champion at 3000 metres, the 1987 World champion at both 1500 metres and 3000 metres, and the 1987 World Indoor champion at 3000 metres. At 1500m, she also won Olympic bronze (1988), World Indoor silver (1987), European silver (1986) and the 1986 Goodwill Games title. Having given birth in 1990, she returned to competition in 1991 competing as Tetyana Dorovskikh, and retained her World title at 3000 metres, as well winning a silver medal in the 1500 metres final behind Hassiba Boulmerka. Her last ...
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Anne Hare
Caroline Anne Hare (born 7 June 1964) is a New Zealand former runner from Wellington. She currently holds the New Zealand women's record for the 2000 m. Hare competed at the 1996 Summer Olympics, where she placed 13th in the women's 5000 m final. She was a participant at three Commonwealth Games, in 1986, 1990 and 1994. Hare is currently a board member on the New Zealand Olympic Committee.voxy.co.nz - Wellington Launch Of World's Largest Multi-sport Event Tonight
Retrieved: 15 March 2009 In 1990, Hare was awarded the

Olga Bondarenko
Olga Petrovna Bondarenko (née Krentser, russian: О́льга Петро́вна Бондаре́нко-Кренцер;
Sports Reference. Retrieved on 2014-01-19. born 2 June 1960 in ) is a retired Russian athlete, who competed mainly in the . She trained at the



Anne Audain
Anne Frances Audain (née Garrett, born 1 November 1955) is a New Zealand middle and long-distance runner. She competed in three Olympic Games and four Commonwealth Games, winning the 1982 Commonwealth Games 3000m title and a silver medal in the 10,000m at the 1986 Commonwealth Games. Career Born in Auckland, Audain finished ninth aged 17 in the 1973 World Cross Country Championships. She ran in the 1500 m at the 1974 British Commonwealth Games in Christchurch, New Zealand, finishing sixth, and top New Zealander, in the final with a time of 4:21.1. In the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Audain competed in both the 800 and 1500 m. Although she failed to get past the heats, she broke the New Zealand record for the 1500 m. Prior to the start of the 1980s, major track and field athletics meetings had not had any women's events longer than 1500 metres. This started to change early in the new decade, and in March 1982, Audain competed in her first 5000 metres, breaking the wo ...
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Svetlana Guskova
Svetlana Guskova (born 19 August 1957) is a Moldovan runner who competed for the Soviet Union. She was born in Mykolaiv. She won the bronze medal in 1500 metres at the 1979 European Indoor Championships. In 1982 she recorded a time of 3:57.05 minutes in the distance, as well as 8:29.36 minutes in the 3000 metres. In 1986 she finished fifth in the 10,000 metres at the 1986 European Championships. 31:42.43 minutes was a career best time. She also recorded 15:02.12 minutes in the 5000 metres The 5000 metres or 5000-metre run is a common long-distance running event in track and field, approximately equivalent to or . It is one of the track events in the Olympic Games and the World Championships in Athletics, run over laps of a sta .... Achievements References External links * 1957 births Living people Moldovan female middle-distance runners Moldovan female long-distance runners Soviet female long-distance runners Soviet female middle-distance runners Universiad ...
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Lyudmila Matveyeva
Lyudmila Mikhaylovna Matveyeva (born 1 February 1957) is a Soviet long-distance runner. She competed in the 10,000 metres at the 1988 Summer Olympics and the 1992 Summer Olympics The 1992 Summer Olympics ( es, Juegos Olímpicos de Verano de 1992, ca, Jocs Olímpics d'estiu de 1992), officially known as the Games of the XXV Olympiad ( es, Juegos de la XXV Olimpiada, ca, Jocs de la XXV Olimpíada) and commonly known as .... References 1957 births Living people Athletes (track and field) at the 1988 Summer Olympics Athletes (track and field) at the 1992 Summer Olympics Soviet female long-distance runners Olympic athletes for the Soviet Union Olympic athletes for the Unified Team Place of birth missing (living people) Soviet Athletics Championships winners {{USSR-athletics-bio-stub ...
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