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Answer the following questions related to the Olympic Marathon events.

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1.

Name the athlete who won the Marathon race consecutively at the 1976 and 1980 Olympic Games.

  Waldemar Cierpinski

  Carlos Sousa Lopes

  Abebe Bikila

  Frank Shorter

 

2.

In which year was the race distance for Marathon events in the modern Olympic games standardized ?

  1896

  1900

  1908

  1924

 

3.

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

  26 miles and 385 yards

  20 miles

  30 miles and 800 yards

  24 miles and 85 yards

 

4.

Who won the Marathon race in the 2004 Athens Olympics?

  Vanderlei de Lima

  Mebrahtom Keflezighi

  Jon Brown

  Stefano Baldini

 

5.

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

  Shoryu Nan

  Kee-Chung Sohn

  Masao Harad

  Naoto Tajima

 

6.

Since when is the Women's Marathon race held in Olympic games ?

  1988 Seoul Olympics

  1896 Athens Olympics

  1900 Paris Olympics

  1984 Los Angeles Olympics

 

7.

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

  Diane Dixon

  P. T. Usha

  Grete Waitz

  Joan Benoit

 


 
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