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Hace 4 días · Lasse Virén of Finland was the first to achieve the feat, winning the title in 1972 in Munich, before retaining the title in 1976 in Montreal. Mo Farah of Great Britain matched the achievement, winning the title in 2012 in London , and retaining it four years later in Rio de Janeiro .
Hace 4 días · Ethiopian Miruts Yifter won the 5,000 metres and 10,000 metres athletics double, emulating Lasse Virén's 1972 and 1976 performances. "I have a 90% chance of winning the 1,500 metres," wrote Steve Ovett in an article for one of Britain's Sunday papers just before the start of the Olympics.
8 de may. de 2024 · Two Britons also had historic performances at the Rio Games: distance runner Mo Farah repeated as Olympic champion in the 5,000-meter and 10,000-meter races, becoming the second man (after Lasse Virén) to do so, and cyclist Bradley Wiggins won gold as a member of the men’s pursuit team, giving him eight career Olympic medals, the ...
Hace 4 días · Lasse Virén of Finland won the 5,000 and 10,000 m (the latter after a fall), a feat he repeated in the 1976 Summer Olympics. Valeriy Borzov of the Soviet Union won both the 100 m and 200 m in track and field.
1 de may. de 2024 · Lasse Virén (Finland), who recovered from a dramatic fall to become 10,000m Olympic champion, also retraces his steps, alongside his son and grandson. Fifty years later, the series also recounts the personal journeys of athletes affected by the global landscape of the time.
30 de abr. de 2024 · Also earlier on Tuesday, engineering students also put caps on the statues of Finnish running greats Paavo Nurmi and Lasse Virén. Other capping rituals around Finland. Students in other cities around Finland have their own rituals, often involving placing student caps on top of local monuments.
7 de may. de 2024 · Lasse Virén FIN PB (Alltime-468) 2 27:39.58 Emiel Puttemans BEL PB (Alltime-489) 3 27:40.96 Miruts Yifter ETH PB (Alltime-515) 4 27:48.14 Mariano Haro ESP PB (Alltime-697) 5 27:51.32 Frank Shorter USA 6 28:05.44 David Bedford GBR 7 28:15.18 Danijel Korica SRB 8 28:18.17 Abdelkader Zaddem TUN 9 28:23.59 Josef Jánský CZE
