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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.

  Abebe Bikila

  Frank Shorter

  Waldemar Cierpinski

  Carlos Sousa Lopes

 

2.

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

  Spiridon Louis

  Michel Breal

  Herodotus

  Pheidippides

 

3.

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

  1800

  1890

  1896

  1900

 

4.

Who was the inspiration behind the idea of the Marathon race?

  Spiridon Louis

  Michel Breal

  Herodotus

  Pheidippides

 

5.

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

  Grete Waitz

  Joan Benoit

  P. T. Usha

  Diane Dixon

 

6.

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

  1896 Athens Olympics

  1900 Paris Olympics

  1984 Los Angeles Olympics

  1988 Seoul Olympics

 

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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