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March 2008 Runner's Web Trivia

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  • 1. What country won the Olympic Marathon at the 1960, 1964 and 1968 Olympics? ....Answer

  • 2. Who won the (boycotted) 1980 Moscow Olympics marathon? ..... Answer

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  • 3. Name the runner in the above photo. ..... Answer

  • 4. Name the American distance runner featured in the movie, Running Brave? .....Answer

  • 5. Marathon world record holder Haile Gebrselassie had surgery in 2000 for what injury? .....Answer

  • 6. Only one Canadian, Jerome Drayton, has ever won the famed Fukuoka Marathon in Japan. How many times did he win? .....Answer

  • 7. This runner won the silver medal at the 1974 Commonwealth Games Marathon at age 41! .....Answer

  • 8. Name the Canadian who won the Boston Marathon four times in an eight-year period before, during, and after World War II. .....Answer

  • 9. With eight career victories in the Honolulu Marathon, this Dutch woman is the undusputed Queen of the Islands.
    1. Maria Gommers;
    2. Fanny Blankers-Koen;
    3. Carla Beurskens;
    4. Elly van Langen.

  • 10. After an altercation with Nazi toughs in a bar brawl, this Boston Marathon champion was tossed in jail during the 1936 Olympic Game sin Berlin.
    1. John A. Kelley;
    2. Ellison "Tarzan" Brown;
    3. Les Pawson;
    4. Clarence DeMar.


 
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