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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.

  Carlos Sousa Lopes

  Abebe Bikila

  Frank Shorter

  Waldemar Cierpinski

 

2.

In which year was the first Olympic Marathon race (from Marathon Bridge to the stadium in Athens) held?

  1800

  1890

  1896

  1900

 

3.

Who was the winner of the first Marathon race in the 1896 Athens Olympics?

  Michel Breal

  Pheidippides

  Herodotus

  Spiridon Louis

 

4.

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

  Gelindo Bordin

  Carmine Petracca

  Michael Johnson

  Dorando Pietri

 

5.

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

 

6.

Name the marathoner who managed to win the bronze medal at the 2004 Athens Olympics, even after his lead position in the race was interrupted by a protester ?

  Stefano Baldini

  Vanderlei de Lima

  Jon Brown

  Mebrahtom Keflezighi

 

7.

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

  1896

  1900

  1908

  1924

 


 
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