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Also Known As Spiridon Loues • Spiridon Louis • Spyridon Loues
Born January 12, 1873 • Greece
Died March 26, 1940 (aged 67) • Greece
Awards And Honors Olympic Games
Emil Zátopek
Emil Zátopek
Czech runner
Marathon runner Abebe Bikila
Abebe Bikila
Ethiopian athlete
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Hannes Kolehmainen
Finnish athlete
Shorter, Frank
Frank Shorter
American athlete
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Waldemar Cierpinski
East German athlete
Eliud Kipchoge of Kenya smiles and holds the Kenyan flag above his head after winning the Berlin Marathon, wearing a white running kit and race bib.
Eliud Kipchoge
Kenyan distance runner
Radcliffe, Paula
Paula Radcliffe
British distance runner
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Robert Kipkoech Cheruiyot
Kenyan runner
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Grete Waitz
Norwegian athlete
Joan Benoit Samuelson
Joan Benoit Samuelson
American runner
Meseret Defar
Meseret Defar
Ethiopian athlete
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Noureddine Morceli
Algerian athlete
Paavo Nurmi
Paavo Nurmi
Finnish runner
Kip Keino
Kip Keino
Kenyan distance runner
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Billy Mills
American athlete
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Wang Junxia
Chinese athlete
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Lasse Virén
Finnish distance runner
Ville Ritola
Ville Ritola
Finnish athlete
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Vladimir Kuts
Soviet athlete
Steve Prefontaine of the United States, wearing bib 1005, leads Lasse Viren of Finland, bib 228, and Emiel Puttemans of Belgium, bib 61, during the 1972 Olympic men's 5,000 meters race.
Steve Prefontaine
American athlete

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