middle-distance running: Quick Facts

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Topics

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Key People

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

Paavo Nurmi

Paavo Nurmi

Finnish runner

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Steve Ovett

British runner

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Hicham El Guerrouj

Moroccan athlete

Kip Keino

Kip Keino

Kenyan distance 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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Gunder Hägg

Swedish athlete

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Wang Junxia

Chinese athlete

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Dave Wottle

American athlete

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Alberto Juantorena

Cuban athlete

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Jim Lightbody

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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Mary Decker

American athlete

Roger Bannister

Roger Bannister

British athlete

Sheppard, Mel

Mel Sheppard

American athlete

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Doug Lowe

British athlete

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Jack Lovelock

New Zealand 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

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