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Answer the following questions related to the Olympic Marathon events.

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1.

Who was the first runner to win the gold medal in two successive Marathon events?

  Carl Lewis

  Michael Johnson

  Emil Zatopek

  Abebe Bikila

 

2.

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

  Waldemar Cierpinski

  Abebe Bikila

  Carlos Sousa Lopes

  Frank Shorter

 

3.

Who won the Marathon race in the 2004 Athens Olympics?

  Jon Brown

  Stefano Baldini

  Vanderlei de Lima

  Mebrahtom Keflezighi

 

4.

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

  Grete Waitz

  Diane Dixon

  Joan Benoit

  P. T. Usha

 

5.

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

  Masao Harad

  Naoto Tajima

  Kee-Chung Sohn

  Shoryu Nan

 

6.

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

  1800

  1890

  1896

  1900

 

7.

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

  Michel Breal

  Spiridon Louis

  Herodotus

  Pheidippides

 


 
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