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Round 1 | Matchup 1 of 8
Terry Fox
Terrance Stanley "Terry" Fox CC OD (July 28, 1958 – June 28, 1981) was a Canadian athlete, humanitarian, andcancer research activist. In 1980, with one leg having been amputated, he embarked on a cross-Canada run to raise money and awareness for cancer research. Although the spread of his cancer eventually forced him to end his quest after 143 days and 5,373 kilometres (3,339 mi), and ultimately cost him his life, his efforts resulted in a lasting, worldwide legacy.
Marla Runyan
Marla Runyan is legally blind and is a three-time national champion in the women's 5000 metres. After numerous Paralympic victories her career as a world-class runner in able-bodied events began in 1999 at the Pan Am Games, where she won the 1,500-meter race. She placed eighth in the 1,500-meter in the 2000 Sydney Olympics, making her the first legally blind athlete to compete in the Olympics and the highest finish by an American woman in that event. She was top American at the 2002 New York City Marathon with a time of 2:27 - the 2nd fastest debut time ever by an American woman.
Round 1 | Matchup 2 of 8
Billy Mills
William Mervin "Billy" Mills, also known as Makata Taka Hela (born June 30, 1938), is the second Native American(after Jim Thorpe) to win an Olympic gold medal.[2] He accomplished this feat in the 10,000 meter run (6.2 mi) at the1964 Tokyo Olympics, becoming the only person from the Western hemisphere to win the Olympic gold in this event. His 1964 victory is considered one of the greatest of Olympic upsets.[3] A former United States Marine, Billy Mills is a member of the Oglala Lakota (Sioux) Tribe.
Team Hoyt
Team Hoyt is a father (Dick) and son (Rick) team who compete together in marathons, triathlons, and other athletic events. Rick has cerebral palsy and Dick pulls him in a special boat as they swim, carries him in a special seat up front as they bike, and pushes him in a special wheelchair as they run. They've run 26 BOston's, biked across the USA, and have done 6 Ironman Tri's. When asked what one thing Rick wished he could give his father he said "The thing I'd most like is that my dad would sit in the chair and I would push him once."
Round 1 | Matchup 3 of 8
Ed Whitlock
Ed Whitlock (born March 6, 1931) is an English-born Canadian long-distance runner, and the first person over 70 years old to run a marathon in less than three hours with a time of 2:59:10 in 2003.
At the Milton half-marathon 2012 Whitlock, who ran as a teenager and took up the sport again in his 40s, first became the oldest person to run a marathon in less than 3 hours in 2000 at age 69 with a time of 2:52:47. Since then, he has continued to extend this record, most recently to age 74 with a time of 2:58:40. His best time since turning 70 was 2:54:48 at age 73, the world record for men 70 to 74. According to an article in The New York Times, if age-graded, this time is equivalent to a 20-year-old running 2:03.57 and to 2010 was the fastest marathon ever run.[1] For an explanation of age-graded tables, see masters athletics#Age-graded tables. As of 2013, he is still the only person over 70 to run a marathon in less than three hours.
Meb Keflezighi
Meb is the 2004 Olympic silver medalist in the marathon and finished in fourth place in the 2012 Summer Olympics. He won the 2009 New York City Marathon on November 1, 2009, and the 2014 Boston Marathon on April 21, 2014, becoming the first American man to win each race since 1982 and 1983, respectively. Keflezighi is a graduate of UCLA where he won four NCAA championships competing for the UCLA Bruins track and field team. He came in fourth in the 2014 New York City Marathon on November 2, 2014 and eighth in the 2015 Boston Marathon on April 20, 2015.
Round 1 | Matchup 4 of 8
Wilma Rudolph
Wilma Glodean Rudolph (June 23, 1940 – November 12, 1994) was an Olympic champion. Rudolph was considered the fastest woman in the world in the 1960s and competed in two Olympic Games, in 1956 and in 1960.In the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome Rudolph became the first American woman to win three gold medals in track and field during a single Olympic Games.[3][4][5][6] A track and field champion, she elevated women's track to a major presence in the United States. As a member of the black community, she is also regarded as a civil rights and women's rights pioneer. Along with other 1960 Olympic athletes such as Cassius Clay, who later becameMuhammad Ali, Rudolph became an international star due to the first international television coverage of the Olympics that year.[7]The powerful sprinter emerged from the 1960 Rome Olympics as "The Tornado, the fastest woman on earth".[8] TheItalians nicknamed her La Gazzella Nera ("The Black Gazelle");[9] to the French she was La Perle Noire ("The Black Pearl").[10][11]
Steve Prefontaine
Steve Roland "Pre" Prefontaine (January 25, 1951 – May 30, 1975) was an American middle and long-distance runner who competed in the 1972 Olympics. Prefontaine once held the American record in seven different distance track events from the 2,000 meters to the 10,000 meters.[2] Prefontaine died in May 1975 at the age of 24 in an auto accident.[3]Prefontaine, Jim Ryun, Frank Shorter, and Bill Rodgers generated considerable media coverage which helped inspire the 1970s "running boom". Prefontaine was often known for his mustache and his long locks of hair that parted as he ran.
Round 1 | Matchup 5 of 8
Françoise Mbango Etone
Françoise Mbango Etone (born 14 April 1976 in Yaoundé) is a Cameroonian-born female track and field athlete. She has competed internationally for France since 2010.[1] While competing for Cameroon, Etone was a gold medalist in the triple jump at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, Greece. She retained her title with an Olympic record distance of 15.39m at the Beijing Olympics in 2008. She is also a talented long jumper who finished second at the African Championships in 1999 (6.55 m). She is the first athlete representing Cameroon to win medals at the World Championships, Commonwealth Games and Olympic Games. She has been a scholarship holder with the Olympic Solidarity program since November 2002. During the 2005–06 academic year, she lived in New York City on a scholarship to attend St. John's University in Queens. The scholarship was made possible through the collaboration of the American electricity company AES Sonel along with US Ambassador to Cameroon, Niels Marquardt. She selected St. John's University for study (along with her younger sister, Berthe) because of the school's support of cultural programs in Cameroon.
Abebe Bikila
Abebe Bikila (Amharic: አበበቢቂላ; August 7, 1932 – October 25, 1973) was a double Olympic marathon champion from Ethiopia, most famous for winning a marathon gold medal in the 1960 Summer Olympics while running barefoot. A stadium in Addis Ababa is named in his honor.[1]
Round 1 | Matchup 6 of 8
Mary Decker
Mary Teresa Slaney (née Decker, born August 4, 1958) is an American former track athlete. During her career, she won gold medals in the 1500 meters and 3000 meters at the 1983 World Championships, and set 17 official and unofficial world records and 36 US national records.[1] She has held the American record in the 1500 meters, mile, 2000 meters and 3000 meters since the early 1980s.
Julie Moss
Julie Moss (born 1958) is an American triathlete. She first became known during the 1982 Ironman Triathlon, in which she competed as part of her research for her exercise physiology thesis. She has claimed that she did not initially take the race seriously and did not have any special training beforehand.[1] Nevertheless she found herself with a comfortable lead, but approximately two miles before the finish line, she became severely dehydrated. She staggered and crawled towards the end of the course, only to be passed moments before the finish line by competitor Kathleen McCartney. Her struggle to finish the Ironman was broadcast around the world, and provided inspiration to many to compete in Ironman events.
Round 1 | Matchup 7 of 8
Joan Benoit Samuelson
Joan Benoit Samuelson (born May 16, 1957) is an American marathon runner who won gold at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, the year that the women's marathon was introduced. As a result, she was the first-ever women's Olympic marathon champion. Benoit Samuelson still holds the fastest times for an American woman at the Chicago Marathon and the Olympic Marathon.[1] Her time at the Boston Marathon was the fastest time by an American woman at that race for 28 years.
Alberto Juantorena
Alberto Juantorena (born 3 December 1950) is a Cuban former track athlete. At the 1976 Summer Olympics, he became the first and so far only athlete to win both the 400 and 800 m Olympic titles.
Round 1 | Matchup 8 of 8
Jane Emily Tomlinson
Jane Emily Tomlinson, CBE (née Goward; 21 February 1964[1] – 3 September 2007) was an amateur English athlete who raised £1.85 million for charity by completing a series of athletic challenges, despite suffering from terminal cancer.[2] Having had treatment for breast cancer in 1991, aged 26; the disease returned in 2000 throughout her body.[3] During the next six years, Tomlinson completed the London Marathon three times, the London Triathlon twice, the New York Marathon once and cycled across Europe and the United States.[3] Jane Tomlinson died in 2007, aged 43.
Kathrine Switzer
Kathrine Virginia "Kathy" Switzer (born January 5, 1947, in Amberg, Germany[1]) is an American author, television commentator and marathon runner,[2] best known for being the first woman to run the Boston Marathon as a numbered entry.
Round 2 | Matchup 1 of 4
Terry Fox
Terrance Stanley "Terry" Fox CC OD (July 28, 1958 – June 28, 1981) was a Canadian athlete, humanitarian, andcancer research activist. In 1980, with one leg having been amputated, he embarked on a cross-Canada run to raise money and awareness for cancer research. Although the spread of his cancer eventually forced him to end his quest after 143 days and 5,373 kilometres (3,339 mi), and ultimately cost him his life, his efforts resulted in a lasting, worldwide legacy.
Team Hoyt
Team Hoyt is a father (Dick) and son (Rick) team who compete together in marathons, triathlons, and other athletic events. Rick has cerebral palsy and Dick pulls him in a special boat as they swim, carries him in a special seat up front as they bike, and pushes him in a special wheelchair as they run. They've run 26 BOston's, biked across the USA, and have done 6 Ironman Tri's. When asked what one thing Rick wished he could give his father he said "The thing I'd most like is that my dad would sit in the chair and I would push him once."
Round 2 | Matchup 2 of 4
Ed Whitlock
Ed Whitlock (born March 6, 1931) is an English-born Canadian long-distance runner, and the first person over 70 years old to run a marathon in less than three hours with a time of 2:59:10 in 2003.
At the Milton half-marathon 2012 Whitlock, who ran as a teenager and took up the sport again in his 40s, first became the oldest person to run a marathon in less than 3 hours in 2000 at age 69 with a time of 2:52:47. Since then, he has continued to extend this record, most recently to age 74 with a time of 2:58:40. His best time since turning 70 was 2:54:48 at age 73, the world record for men 70 to 74. According to an article in The New York Times, if age-graded, this time is equivalent to a 20-year-old running 2:03.57 and to 2010 was the fastest marathon ever run.[1] For an explanation of age-graded tables, see masters athletics#Age-graded tables. As of 2013, he is still the only person over 70 to run a marathon in less than three hours.
Steve Prefontaine
Steve Roland "Pre" Prefontaine (January 25, 1951 – May 30, 1975) was an American middle and long-distance runner who competed in the 1972 Olympics. Prefontaine once held the American record in seven different distance track events from the 2,000 meters to the 10,000 meters.[2] Prefontaine died in May 1975 at the age of 24 in an auto accident.[3]Prefontaine, Jim Ryun, Frank Shorter, and Bill Rodgers generated considerable media coverage which helped inspire the 1970s "running boom". Prefontaine was often known for his mustache and his long locks of hair that parted as he ran.
Round 2 | Matchup 3 of 4
Françoise Mbango Etone
Françoise Mbango Etone (born 14 April 1976 in Yaoundé) is a Cameroonian-born female track and field athlete. She has competed internationally for France since 2010.[1] While competing for Cameroon, Etone was a gold medalist in the triple jump at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, Greece. She retained her title with an Olympic record distance of 15.39m at the Beijing Olympics in 2008. She is also a talented long jumper who finished second at the African Championships in 1999 (6.55 m). She is the first athlete representing Cameroon to win medals at the World Championships, Commonwealth Games and Olympic Games. She has been a scholarship holder with the Olympic Solidarity program since November 2002. During the 2005–06 academic year, she lived in New York City on a scholarship to attend St. John's University in Queens. The scholarship was made possible through the collaboration of the American electricity company AES Sonel along with US Ambassador to Cameroon, Niels Marquardt. She selected St. John's University for study (along with her younger sister, Berthe) because of the school's support of cultural programs in Cameroon.
Mary Decker
Mary Teresa Slaney (née Decker, born August 4, 1958) is an American former track athlete. During her career, she won gold medals in the 1500 meters and 3000 meters at the 1983 World Championships, and set 17 official and unofficial world records and 36 US national records.[1] She has held the American record in the 1500 meters, mile, 2000 meters and 3000 meters since the early 1980s.
Round 2 | Matchup 4 of 4
Joan Benoit Samuelson
Joan Benoit Samuelson (born May 16, 1957) is an American marathon runner who won gold at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, the year that the women's marathon was introduced. As a result, she was the first-ever women's Olympic marathon champion. Benoit Samuelson still holds the fastest times for an American woman at the Chicago Marathon and the Olympic Marathon.[1] Her time at the Boston Marathon was the fastest time by an American woman at that race for 28 years.
Kathrine Switzer
Kathrine Virginia "Kathy" Switzer (born January 5, 1947, in Amberg, Germany[1]) is an American author, television commentator and marathon runner,[2] best known for being the first woman to run the Boston Marathon as a numbered entry.