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Also Known As William Mervin Mills
Born June 30, 1938 (age 88) • Pine Ridge • South Dakota
Awards And Honors Olympic Games
Ville Ritola
Ville Ritola
Finnish athlete
Emil Zátopek
Emil Zátopek
Czech runner
Paavo Nurmi
Paavo Nurmi
Finnish runner
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Lasse Virén
Finnish distance runner
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Hannes Kolehmainen
Finnish athlete
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Vladimir Kuts
Soviet athlete
Shorter, Frank
Frank Shorter
American athlete
Marathon runner Abebe Bikila
Abebe Bikila
Ethiopian athlete
Joan Benoit Samuelson
Joan Benoit Samuelson
American runner
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Al Oerter
American athlete
Bob Hayes (left, foreground) winning the 100-metre dash at the 1964 Olympic Games in Tokyo
Bob Hayes
American athlete
Wyomia Tyus anchoring the U.S. 4 × 100-metre relay team, which won the gold medal in world record time at the 1968 Summer Olympic Games in Mexico City.
Wyomia Tyus
American athlete
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Wang Junxia
Chinese athlete
Meseret Defar
Meseret Defar
Ethiopian athlete
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Noureddine Morceli
Algerian athlete
Kip Keino
Kip Keino
Kenyan distance runner
Irena Szewińska
Irena Szewińska
Polish athlete
Peter Snell
Peter Snell
New Zealand athlete
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Iolanda Balas
Romanian athlete
Olympic champion Tamara Press
Tamara Press
Soviet athlete

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