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Born August 7, 1950 (age 76) • Canton • Ohio
Awards And Honors Olympic Games
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Jim Lightbody
American athlete
Sheppard, Mel
Mel Sheppard
American athlete
Mal Whitfield smiles and holds his medal in its box after winning the 800-metre race at the 1948 Olympic Games in London, with a stadium crowd in the background.
Mal Whitfield
American athlete
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Ted Meredith
American athlete
Sebastian Coe, President of World Athletics, smiling and wearing a dark suit with an open-collared shirt, with a blurred purple background.
Sebastian Coe
British athlete
Peter Snell
Peter Snell
New Zealand athlete
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Steve Ovett
British runner
Tatyana Kazankina clinching the gold medal in the 1,500-metre race at the 1980 Olympics in Moscow
Tatyana Kazankina
Soviet athlete
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Alberto Juantorena
Cuban athlete
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Lina Radke
German athlete
Kip Keino
Kip Keino
Kenyan distance runner
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Doug Lowe
British athlete
Paavo Nurmi
Paavo Nurmi
Finnish runner
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Jack Lovelock
New Zealand athlete
Elliott, Herb
Herb Elliott
Australian-American athlete
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Mary Decker
American athlete
Glenn Cunningham, who won the silver medal in the 1,500-metre event at the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin
Glenn Cunningham
American athlete
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Lasse Virén
Finnish distance runner
Ruth Fuchs
Ruth Fuchs
German athlete
Saneyev, Viktor
Viktor Saneyev
Soviet athlete

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