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Francisco Sánchez Martínez
Francisco Sánchez Martínez (5 August 1967 – 13 February 2022) was a Colombian long-distance runner who specialized in mountain running. He won the bronze medal at the 1991 World Mountain Running Trophy and won the Sierre-Zinal the same year. Biography Born in Bogotá, Sánchez practiced football and cycling in his youth. Due to his lack of professional skill in the sports, he took up running at the age of 20. He emerged as an elite runner in 1991, winning the Colombian Mountain Running Championship organized by Jairo Correa. The Colombian Athletics Federation sent him to Switzerland to take part in the Sierre-Zinal the same year, in which he emerged victorious and set a new course record. He outraced Correa at the in Colombia. At the World Mountain Running Trophy in 1991, he led for much of the race, but was overtaken by late and eventually finished third. In 1992, Sánchez again attempted to break the record at the Sierre-Zinal and started strong, but faltered in the s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brackets
A bracket is either of two tall fore- or back-facing punctuation marks commonly used to isolate a segment of text or data from its surroundings. They come in four main pairs of shapes, as given in the box to the right, which also gives their names, that vary between British English, British and American English. "Brackets", without further qualification, are in British English the ... marks and in American English the ... marks. Other symbols are repurposed as brackets in specialist contexts, such as International Phonetic Alphabet#Brackets and transcription delimiters, those used by linguists. Brackets are typically deployed in symmetric pairs, and an individual bracket may be identified as a "left" or "right" bracket or, alternatively, an "opening bracket" or "closing bracket", respectively, depending on the Writing system#Directionality, directionality of the context. In casual writing and in technical fields such as computing or linguistic analysis of grammar, brackets ne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walliser Bote
The is a Swiss German-language daily newspaper established in 1840, published in the Canton of Valais. Established in 1840 as the before becoming the , it had an inconsistent first few decades before establishing itself in 1869. It became a daily in 1969. It was the first German-language paper in Valais. History The paper was founded in the Canton of Valais in 28 July 1840. It is published out of Sion, Switzerland, and was the first German-language paper in Valais. Its initial editor was Alois von Riedmatten. It was founded as the as an insertion for the paper, becoming its own paper a few weeks later as the . It was until 1900 staffed by the laity, and until 1930 was by Catholic priests. Its initial period was inconsistent, with it briefly becoming a bilingual paper and renaming itself . It then ceased publication for a decade, before reappearing from 1851 to 1852, but only briefly. It would reappear in 1858 as the , before returning to in 1869 and being published consi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Colombian Mountain Runners
Colombian may refer to: * Something of, from, or related to the country of Colombia * Colombians, persons from Colombia, or of Colombian descent **For more information about the Colombian people, see: *** Demographics of Colombia *** Indigenous peoples in Colombia, Native Colombians *** Colombian American ** For specific persons, see List of Colombians * Colombian Spanish, one of the languages spoken in Colombia ** See also languages of Colombia * Colombian culture * Colombian sheep, a sheep breed * Colombian necktie * Columbians Drum and Bugle Corps, based in Pasco, Washington * Colombians, a 2017 instrumental Gorillaz track, released in the Super Deluxe boxset of "Humanz." See also * * * Christopher Columbus (1451–1506), Italian explorer after which Colombia was named * Coffee production in Colombia * Colombia (other) * Colombiana (other) * Colombina (other) * Colombino (other) * Colombine (other) * Columbia (disambiguatio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2022 Deaths
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1967 Births
Events January * January 1 – Canada begins a year-long celebration of the 100th anniversary of Canadian Confederation, Confederation, featuring the Expo 67 World's Fair. * January 6 – Vietnam War: United States Marine Corps and Army of the Republic of Vietnam troops launch ''Operation Deckhouse Five'' in the Mekong Delta. * January 8 – Vietnam War: Operation Cedar Falls starts, in an attempt to eliminate the Iron Triangle (Vietnam), Iron Triangle. * January 13 – A military coup occurs in Togo under the leadership of Étienne Eyadema. * January 15 – Louis Leakey announces the discovery of pre-human fossils in Kenya; he names the species ''Proconsul nyanzae, Kenyapithecus africanus''. * January 23 ** In Munich, the trial begins of Wilhelm Harster, accused of the murder of 82,856 Jews (including Anne Frank) when he led German security police during the German occupation of the Netherlands. He is eventually sentenced to 15 years in prison. ** Milton Keynes in England is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
COVID-19
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a contagious disease caused by the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2. In January 2020, the disease spread worldwide, resulting in the COVID-19 pandemic. The symptoms of COVID‑19 can vary but often include fever, fatigue, cough, breathing difficulties, anosmia, loss of smell, and ageusia, loss of taste. Symptoms may begin one to fourteen days incubation period, after exposure to the virus. At least a third of people who are infected asymptomatic, do not develop noticeable symptoms. Of those who develop symptoms noticeable enough to be classified as patients, most (81%) develop mild to moderate symptoms (up to mild pneumonia), while 14% develop severe symptoms (dyspnea, hypoxia (medical), hypoxia, or more than 50% lung involvement on imaging), and 5% develop critical symptoms (respiratory failure, shock (circulatory), shock, or organ dysfunction, multiorgan dysfunction). Older people have a higher risk of developing severe symptoms. Some complicati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jungfrau Marathon
The Jungfrau Marathon is one of the best known mountain marathons in the world, in full view of the famous Eiger, Mönch, and Jungfrau mountains in the Bernese Oberland area of the Swiss Alps. The first Jungfrau Marathon was held in 1993. Approximately 3,500 runners from 35 different nations participate. The Jungfrau Marathon takes place each year in September. The 2007 edition of the competition incorporated the World Long Distance Mountain Running Challenge and attracted 4200 participants from 50 countries. The course The course starts in Interlaken and climbs 6,407 feet (1,953 m) in elevation to the finish at the Eigergletscher railway station, Eigergletscher. It used to finish at Kleine Scheidegg. The first 10 km of the course are flat. The race begins in central Interlaken and circles around the town centre before moving east to Bönigen, where runners briefly run along the shore of Lake Brienz. The race proceeds southwards to Wilderswil at the 10 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
El Tiempo (Colombia)
''El Tiempo'' () is a nationally distributed broadsheet daily newspaper in Colombia launched on January 30, 1911. , ''El Tiempo'' had the highest circulation in Colombia with an average daily weekday of 1,137,483 readers, rising to 1,921,571 readers for the Sunday edition. From 1913 to 2007, ''El Tiempos main shareholders were members of the Santos family. Several also participated in Colombian politics: Eduardo Santos Montejo was President of Colombia from 1938 to 1942. Francisco Santos Calderón served as Vice-President (2002–2010). And Juan Manuel Santos as Defense Minister (2006–2009) during Álvaro Uribe's administration; Juan Manuel was elected president of Colombia in 2010 and served in that position until 2018. In 2007, Spanish Grupo Planeta acquired 55% of the ''Casa Editorial El Tiempo'' media group, including the newspaper and its associated TV channel Citytv Bogotá. In 2012, businessman Luis Carlos Sarmiento Angulo bought the shares of Planeta, the Santo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bogotá
Bogotá (, also , , ), officially Bogotá, Distrito Capital, abbreviated Bogotá, D.C., and formerly known as Santa Fe de Bogotá (; ) during the Spanish Imperial period and between 1991 and 2000, is the capital city, capital and largest city of Colombia, and one of the List of largest cities, largest cities in the world. The city is administered as the Capital District, as well as the capital of, though not politically part of, the surrounding department of Cundinamarca Department, Cundinamarca. Bogotá is a territorial entity of the first order, with the same administrative status as the departments of Colombia. It is the main political, economic, administrative, industrial, cultural, aeronautical, technological, scientific, medical and educational center of the country and northern South America. Bogotá was founded as the capital of the New Kingdom of Granada on 6 August 1538 by Spanish conquistador Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada after a harsh Spanish conquest of the Muisca, e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Colombian Athletics Federation
The Federación Colombiana de Atletismo (FECODATLE; ''Colombian Athletics Federation'') is the governing body for the sport of athletics in Colombia. Current president is Félix Marrugo. History FECODATLE was founded and joined Atletismo Sudamericano in 1937. Affiliations FECODATLE is the national member federation for Colombia in the following international organisations: *World Athletics *Atletismo Sudamericano, Confederación Sudamericana de Atletismo (Atletismo Sudamericano; ''South American Athletics Confederation'') *Association of Panamerican Athletics (APA) *Asociación Iberoamericana de Atletismo (AIA; ''Ibero-American Athletics Association'') *Central American and Caribbean Athletic Confederation (CACAC) Moreover, it is part of the following national organisations: *Colombian Olympic Committee (Spanish: ''Comité Olímpico Colombiano'') Members FECODATLE comprises the Departments of Colombia, regional athletic ligas of 30 of the 32 departments, plus the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jairo Correa
Jairo Correa (born 2 October 1954) is a former Colombian mountain runner who won two World Mountain Running Championships (1989, 1991). Biography He won three times the Swiss race Sierre-Zinal The Sierre-Zinal race is an annual mountain running race that takes place in the Swiss canton of Valais each August. It is also known as the race of five 4000ers ("La course des cinq 4000"), as five peaks over four thousand meters are visible alo ... (1990, 1993, 1995). International competitions References External links Jairo Correaprofile at Association of Road Racing Statisticians 1954 births Living people Place of birth missing (living people) Colombian mountain runners Colombian male long-distance runners Colombian male marathon runners Colombian male steeplechase runners Colombian masters athletes Competitors at the 1974 Central American and Caribbean Games Central American and Caribbean Games silver medalists for Colombia World Mountain Running Championships w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
