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Answer the following questions related to the Olympic Marathon events.

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1.

What is the standardized race distance of the modern Olympic Marathon race?

  20 miles

  30 miles and 800 yards

  26 miles and 385 yards

  24 miles and 85 yards

 

2.

Who was the first woman to win a Marathon race in the Olympic games ?

  P. T. Usha

  Joan Benoit

  Grete Waitz

  Diane Dixon

 

3.

Who won the Marathon race in the 2004 Athens Olympics?

  Jon Brown

  Stefano Baldini

  Vanderlei de Lima

  Mebrahtom Keflezighi

 

4.

Name the first Australian runner to win a medal at Olympic Marathon.

  Lisa Martin

  Ian Thorpe

  Rob Castella

  Cliff Young

 

5.

Name the first Asian runner to win a Marathon race in the Olympic games.

  Masao Harad

  Shoryu Nan

  Naoto Tajima

  Kee-Chung Sohn

 

6.

Name the first Asian woman athlete to win a Marathon race at the Olympic games.

  Fatuma Roba

  P. T. Usha

  Naoko Takahashi

  Mizuki Noguchi

 

7.

Who won the Men's Marathon at the 1988 Seoul Olympic Games in?

  Dorando Pietri

  Michael Johnson

  Gelindo Bordin

  Carmine Petracca

 


 
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