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The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner "The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner" is a short story by Alan Sillitoe, published in 1959 as part of a short story collection of the same name. The work focuses on Smith, a poor Nottingham teenager from a dismal home in a working class area, who has bleak prospects in life and few interests beyond petty crime. The boy turns to long-distance running as a method of both an emotional and a physical escape from his situation. The story was adapted for a 1962 film of the same title. When he is caught by
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The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner "The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner" is a short story by Alan Sillitoe, published in 1959 as part of a short story collection of the same name. The work focuses on Smith, a poor Nottingham teenager from a dismal home in a working class area, who has bleak prospects in life and few interests beyond petty crime. The boy turns to long-distance running as a method of both an emotional and a physical escape from his situation. The story was adapted for a 1962 film of the same title. When he is caught by
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impeached Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich referred to the story: "Let me simply say, I feel like the old Alan Sillitoe short story 'The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner'... and that's what this is, by the way, a long-distance run." Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple Inc., mentions in his book "iWoz" about how much he thinks like Smith and was influenced by Sillitoe's story. The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner "The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner" is a short story by Alan Sillitoe, published in 1959 as part of a short story collection of the same name. The work focuses
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The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (film) The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner is a 1962 British coming-of-age film based on the short story of the same name. The screenplay was, like the story, written by Alan Sillitoe. The film was directed by Tony Richardson, one of the new young directors emerging from documentary films, a series of 1950s filmmakers known as the Free Cinema movement. It tells the story of a rebellious youth (played by Tom Courtenay), sentenced to a borstal ('Approved School') for burgling a bakery, who gains privileges in the institution through his prowess as
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of the Long Distance Runner""" the idea of the runner was changing dramatically. Helen Small states, “…the weight of literary attention seems to be focused on a ‘pre-professional era’—either written at that time or looking back at it for inspiration”. Author Alan Sillitoe is considered to be a member of the 'angry young men' movement by critics and colleagues (though Sillitoe himself disliked this label). This term was associated with writers who created main characters that were "belligerent and opinionated", such as Smith. "The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner" suggests a revolution to combat class issues of the time.
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during the Second World War. The original trumpet theme to the film was performed by Fred Muscroft, the Principal Cornet (at the time) of the Scots Guards. The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (film) The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner is a 1962 British coming-of-age film based on the short story of the same name. The screenplay was, like the story, written by Alan Sillitoe. The film was directed by Tony Richardson, one of the new young directors emerging from documentary films, a series of 1950s filmmakers known as the Free Cinema movement. It tells the story of
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Jackson. Upon release, the single reached number nine in Canada, number 31 in the United Kingdom, and number 46 in Sweden. Jonathan David "Jonathan David" is a single released by Belle & Sebastian on Jeepster in 2001. The lead track gets its name from the biblical duo of Jonathan and David, while "The Loneliness of a Middle Distance Runner" is a reference to Alan Sillitoe's short story "The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner." The front cover features band members Mick Cooke and Bobby Kildea with Gill Dodds. All three tracks from the single were later collected on the "Push
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Jonathan David "Jonathan David" is a single released by Belle & Sebastian on Jeepster in 2001. The lead track gets its name from the biblical duo of Jonathan and David, while "The Loneliness of a Middle Distance Runner" is a reference to Alan Sillitoe's short story "The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner." The front cover features band members Mick Cooke and Bobby Kildea with Gill Dodds. All three tracks from the single were later collected on the "Push Barman to Open Old Wounds" compilation. The title track was the band's first single to feature lead vocals from guitarist Stevie
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dies shall go unmourned." Harold Hobson was also quick to recognize the importance of the play "as a landmark of British theatre". He praised Osborne for the play, despite the fact that the "blinkers still obscure his vision". Alan Sillitoe, author of "Saturday Night and Sunday Morning" and "The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner" (both of which are also part of the "angry young men" movement), wrote that Osborne "didn't contribute to British theatre, he set off a landmine and blew most of it up". In 1989 Judi Dench directed a production that starred Kenneth Branagh and Emma Thompson.
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the book "Sea Poems" by Myfanwy Piper which were well reviewed. Moore's painting "The Agony in the Garden" won the £200 first prize in a competition for religious images. After the War, Moore worked regularly as an illustrator for the "Radio Times", the "Daily Express", "Good Housekeeping" and "The Listener". In 1948 she produced two posters for the London Transport Executive, entitled "Autumn" and "Leaves". She designed the jacket covers of Alan Sillitoe's first two books, "Saturday Night and Sunday Morning" in 1958 and "The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner" the following year. Moore and her husband both became
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and new ways to use technology in the arts has allowed the company the ability to adapt to the changing world and constantly offer a product that is relevant and exciting for their audiences. Pilot Theatre and York Theatre Royal presented Alan Sillitoe's, The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner adapted for the stage by Roy Williams which premiered in York before a national tour in Autumn 2012. In 2014, we worked with Roy Williams again on an adaptation of Antigone in co-production with Derby Theatre and Stratford East. In the same year we began a large scale cooperation project
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Alan Sillitoe Alan Sillitoe (4 March 192825 April 2010) was an English writer and one of the so-called "angry young men" of the 1950s. He disliked the label, as did most of the other writers to whom it was applied. He is best known for his debut novel "Saturday Night and Sunday Morning" and his early short story "The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner", both of which were adapted into films. Sillitoe was born in Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, to working-class parents, Christopher Sillitoe and Sabina (née Burton). Like Arthur Seaton, the anti-hero of his first novel, "Saturday Night and Sunday
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on 25 April 2010 at Charing Cross Hospital in London. He was 82. He is buried in Highgate Cemetery. Alan Sillitoe Alan Sillitoe (4 March 192825 April 2010) was an English writer and one of the so-called "angry young men" of the 1950s. He disliked the label, as did most of the other writers to whom it was applied. He is best known for his debut novel "Saturday Night and Sunday Morning" and his early short story "The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner", both of which were adapted into films. Sillitoe was born in Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, to working-class parents,
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such film, "The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner", which was also adapted from an Alan Sillitoe book of the same name. "Saturday Night and Sunday Morning" received an X rating from the BBFC upon its theatrical release. It later was submitted for re-rating for the home video release and given a PG rating. Much of the exterior filming was done on location in Nottingham, though some scenes were shot elsewhere. The night scene with a pub named "The British Flag" in the background was filmed along Culvert Road in Battersea, London, the pub being at the junction of Culvert
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to New York, NY. Severe blisters forced Howie to drop out in Las Vegas (370 km). December 1992. Ran from Victoria to Sacramento (1190 km) for the Helen Klein 6-day race. 1993 & 1994 & 1995. No between cities runs. October 1996. Ran length of Vancouver Island to Port Hardy (500 km) for Canadian Diabetic Association. Stopped running due to insulin treatments for Type I diabetes. Unknown Victoria: Loneliness of The Long-Distance Runner unknownvictoria.blogspot.com/ ... /loneliness-of-long-distance-runner ... 3 Oct 2007 Al Howie Arthur "Al" Howie (September 16, 1945 – June 21, 2016) was a Canadian long-distance runner who won more
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looking back on his actions, he has no regrets. Long-distance running gives the character an ability to freely escape from society without the pressures of a team, which may be found in other athletic stories. Additionally, Sillitoe gave running a political perspective that changed the vision of a literary runner. Sillitoe's character Smith uses running as a way to mentally reflect, allowing Smith to give clarity to his political insights and share them with the reader. Through running, Smith begins to understand and become aware of the class divisions in Britain. During the time period that Sillitoe wrote """The Loneliness
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loneliness, because he has refused to submit to authority. Sillitoe's screenplay can be interpreted as either tragic or bathetic by ultimately projecting the protagonist as a working class rebel rather than an otherwise rehabilitated but conformist talent. During the period when Sillitoe wrote the book and screenplay the sport of running was changing. The purity of running was taken away when Smith entered the race for his own and his institution's benefit — a commodity useful for his patrons' own promotion. Sillitoe rejects the commoditisation of running in his book and screenplay, believing instead a professional becomes commercialised and loses
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Colin, sullen and rebellious, immediately catches his eye as a test of his beliefs. An important part of the Governor's rehabilitation programme is athletics, and he soon notices that Colin is a talented runner, easily able to outrun Ruxton's reigning long-distance runner. The Governor was once a runner himself, and he is especially keen on Colin's abilities because, for the first time, his charges have been invited to compete in a five-mile cross-country run against Ranley, a nearby public school with privileged pupils from upper-class families. The Governor sees the invitation as an important way to demonstrate the success of
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a long-distance runner. During his solitary runs, reveries of important events before his incarceration lead him to re-evaluate his status as the prize athlete of the Governor (Michael Redgrave), eventually undertaking a rebellious act of personal autonomy and suffering an immediate loss of privileges. The film poster's byline is "you can play it by rules... or you can play it by ear - WHAT COUNTS is that you play it right for you...". The notion is echoed by other contemporary films, such as a rapid series of three contemporary Lone Ranger films. The film depicts Britain in the late 1950s
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with Baba, where she gets over her heartbreak and meets "different people, different men". In "The New York Times", Bosley Crowther wrote, ""Girl With Green Eyes" is another of those remarkably fresh and natural films that have come from the Woodfall organisation, which is sparked by protean Tony Richardson and which has given us such a dazzling range of pictures as "A Taste of Honey", "Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner" and "Tom Jones". While it is not as ambitious or extensive as any of those, it is a wonderfully tender, touching and humorous little drama of a lonely Irish
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hall over Ruxton's poor food. Colin also witnesses the kind of treatment given to his fellows who are not so fortunate: beatings, bread-and-water diets, demeaning work in the machine shop or the kitchen. Finally, the day of the five-mile race against Ranley arrives, and Colin quickly identifies Ranley's star runner, Gunthorpe (James Fox). The proud Governor looks on as the starting gun is fired. Colin soon overtakes Gunthorpe and has a comfortable lead with a sure win; but a series of jarring images run through his mind, jumpcut flashes of his life at home and his mother's neglect, his father's
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a brief voiceover, Colin tells us that running is the way his family has always coped with the world's troubles, but that in the end, the runner is always alone and cut off from spectators, left to deal with life on his own. Colin is then shown with a group of other young men, all handcuffed. They are being taken to Ruxton Towers, a detention centre for juvenile offenders, an Approved School. It is overseen by the Governor (Michael Redgrave), who believes that the hard work and discipline imposed on his charges will ultimately make them useful members of society.
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The Loneliness of the Long Distance Walker The Loneliness of the Long Distance Walker is a missing episode in the British comedy series "Dad's Army". It was originally transmitted on Saturday 15 March 1969. Although screenshots and clips of the episode exist, the full episode is still missing from BBC Archives. To his complete surprise, Walker receives his call-up papers. Mainwaring tries his best to get them to reconsider. When Walker is called up, he applies to the Military Service Hardship Committee, who reject him on the grounds that he doesn't keep books for his business. After Jones' attempts to
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as a member of the working class poor. Sillitoe has used running to give his character a chance to reflect upon his social status and also to escape from the reality that the poor in Britain are faced with. Long-distance running gives the character an ability to freely escape from society without the pressures of a team, which may be found in other athletic stories. Locations were shot in and around Ruxley Towers, Claygate, Surrey – a Victorian mock castle built by Henry Foley, 5th Baron Foley. The building had been used by the Navy, Army and Air Force Institutes
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the police for robbing a bakery, Smith is sentenced to be confined in Ruxton Towers in Essex, a borstal (prison school) for delinquent youths. Taken there in handcuffs and detained in bleak and highly restrictive circumstances, he seeks solace in long-distance running, attracting the notice of the school's authorities for his physical prowess. Smith is offered a light workload for his last six months at Ruxton Towers if he wins in an important cross-country competition against a prestigious public school. For Ruxton Towers to win the cross-country race would be a major public relations boost for the borstal administrators. However,
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his mother, interspersed with his own recollections of life as a young student actor in London in the early 1960s. Courtenay is the President of Hull City AFC's Official Supporters' Club. In 1999, Courtenay was awarded an honorary doctorate by Hull University. On 19 January 2018 Sir Tom was bestowed the Honorary Freedom of the City of Hull. His roles include: Tom Courtenay Sir Thomas Daniel Courtenay (; born 25 February 1937) is an English actor who came to prominence in the early 1960s with a succession of films, including "The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner" (1962), "Billy Liar"
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Tom Courtenay Sir Thomas Daniel Courtenay (; born 25 February 1937) is an English actor who came to prominence in the early 1960s with a succession of films, including "The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner" (1962), "Billy Liar" (1963), and "Doctor Zhivago" (1965). Since the mid-1960s, he has been known primarily for his work in the theatre, although he received an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor for the film adaptation of "The Dresser" (1983), which he had performed on the West End and on Broadway. He was created a Knight Bachelor in February 2001 for his services to
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the clarity of thought that comes with running otherwise. This is why Smith chooses to forfeit the race. Literary critic Helen Small states, “…the weight of literary attention seems to be focused on a ‘pre-professional era’ — either written at that time or looking back at it for inspiration”. Her research stresses that Sillitoe was an author who believed in the unadulterated sport. Running is also used as a metaphor to give Smith the ability to escape from the reality of his class level in society. The use of this sport gives Smith the ability to escape from his life
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Finney, "We both have the same problem, overcoming the flat harsh speech of the North." Courtenay's film debut was in 1962 with "Private Potter", directed by Finnish-born director Caspar Wrede, who had first spotted Courtenay while he was still at RADA. This was followed by "The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner", directed by Tony Richardson and "Billy Liar", two highly acclaimed films and performances which helped usher in the British New Wave of the early-to-mid-1960s. For these performances Courtenay was awarded the 1962 BAFTA Award for most promising newcomer and the 1963 BAFTA Award for best actor respectively. He
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dead body, stern lectures from detectives, police, the Governor, the hopelessness of any future life with Audrey. Just yards from the finish line, he stops running and remains in place, despite the calls, howls and protests from the Ruxton Towers crowd, especially the Governor. In close-up, Colin looks directly at him with a rebellious sneer, an expression that remains as the Ranley runner passes to cross the finish line to victory. The Governor is intensely angry. At the end, Colin is back in the machine shop, punished and ignored by the Governor. However, he seems calm, even content with his
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orchestra). Neither does it appear in any standard hymn book in a guise other than Parry's own, so it may have been harmonised specially for the film. The film's working title was "Running" until Colin Welland saw a television programme, "Songs of Praise", featuring the hymn and decided to change the title. The hymn has featured in many other films and television programmes including "Four Weddings and a Funeral", "How to Get Ahead in Advertising", "The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner", "Calendar Girls", "", "Goodnight Mr. Tom", "Women in Love", "The Man Who Fell to Earth", "Shameless", and "Monty
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Smith says “in the end the governor is going to be doomed while blokes like me will take the pickings of his roasted bones and dance like maniacs around his Borstal’s ruins”. It is suggested that Sillitoe was never simply an “angry young man” but someone who would continue to be bitter despite youth, due to his deep hatred for the British class system. While it was suggested at the time that Sillitoe created a character to express extreme views, as time passed it has become clear that Sillitoe and Smith’s views were not very different. On 9 January 2009,
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sabotage his medical test fail, Walker is invalided out because he's allergic to corned beef. The radio episode still exists and was released on Series 1 DVD, along with the other 2 missing episodes. The Loneliness of the Long Distance Walker The Loneliness of the Long Distance Walker is a missing episode in the British comedy series "Dad's Army". It was originally transmitted on Saturday 15 March 1969. Although screenshots and clips of the episode exist, the full episode is still missing from BBC Archives. To his complete surprise, Walker receives his call-up papers. Mainwaring tries his best to get
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Desmond Davis Desmond Davis (born 24 May 1926 in London, England) is a British film and television director. After serving a long apprenticeship as a clapper boy in the 1940s, with Britain's Army Film Unit, Davis eventually worked his way up to focus puller and camera operator in low-budget British films of the 1950s. By the 1960s, Davis worked as a camera operator on such internationally acclaimed films as "A Taste of Honey", "The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner", "Freud" (directed by John Huston) and "Tom Jones", which won the Academy Award for Best Picture. Davis not made his
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Desmond Davis Desmond Davis (born 24 May 1926 in London, England) is a British film and television director. After serving a long apprenticeship as a clapper boy in the 1940s, with Britain's Army Film Unit, Davis eventually worked his way up to focus puller and camera operator in low-budget British films of the 1950s. By the 1960s, Davis worked as a camera operator on such internationally acclaimed films as "A Taste of Honey", "The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner", "Freud" (directed by John Huston) and "Tom Jones", which won the Academy Award for Best Picture. Davis not made his
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Luke Watson (distance runner) Luke Watson (born August 20, 1980) is a retired long-distance runner who specialized in various track and road running disciplines. He represented the United States at the IAAF World Cross Country Championships in 2004 and 2006. He was a member of one of the greatest generations of high school long distance runners in the US, many of whom happened to be from Stillwater High in the late 1990s. At Notre Dame he studied and also became a very competitive middle and long distance runner, before which he ran at three US Olympic Trials in 2004, 2008,
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his rehabilitation programme. The Governor takes Colin under his wing, offering him outdoor gardening work and eventually the freedom of practice runs outside Ruxton's barbed-wire fences. This is shown interspersed with a series of flashbacks showing how Colin came to be incarcerated, beginning with one showing his family's difficult, poverty-stricken life in a lower-class district of industrial Nottingham, where they live in a prefab. The jobless Colin indulges in petty crime in the company of his best friend, Mike (James Bolam). Meanwhile, at home, his father's long years of toil in a local factory have resulted in a terminal illness
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Wave directors. Gibbs was then principal editor for several of the subsequent "New Wave" films, including Richardson's "A Taste of Honey" (1961), "The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner" (1962), and "Tom Jones" (1963), and also "The Knack ...and How to Get It" (1965), which was directed by Richard Lester. In his 1995 book, "Film and Video Editing", Roger Crittenden notes the influence of this first phase of Gibbs' editing career, "The generation of American editors of which Dede Allen is a part has given considerable credit for the inspiration of their work to Antony Gibbs, the English editor of
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from a variety of sources (including Ford of Britain) and they each made a series of socially challenging short documentaries on a variety of subjects. These films, made in the tradition of British documentaries in the 1930s by such men as John Grierson, foreshadowed much of the social realism of British cinema which emerged in the 1960s with Anderson's own film "This Sporting Life", Reisz's "Saturday Night and Sunday Morning", and Richardson's "The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner". By 1964, the cycle was essentially over. Tony Richardson's "Tom Jones", Richard Lester's "A Hard Day's Night" and the early James
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films directed by, amongst others, Tony Richardson, Nicholas Roeg, and Richard Lester. There is a daring and energetic quality to Tony Gibbs' work, especially in some sequences of "The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner", "Tom Jones", "The Knack", and "Performance", which must have given a shot of adrenaline to aspiring editors on both sides of the Atlantic at the time. Dede ascribes her work on "Bonnie and Clyde" directly to the influence of Tony Gibbs." "Bonnie and Clyde" (1967) "marked a turning point in the editing of feature films that sent reverberations through the entire American cinema." Gibbs was
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play "The Importance of Being Earnest". The memoir is subtitled "The Memoirs of a Young Man in Search of Sex". Stokes worked as a screenplay advisor on Tony Richardson's films "The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner" (1962), starring Tom Courtenay and Michael Redgrave, and on "Tom Jones" (1963), starring Albert Finney and Susannah York, and based on the novel of the same name by Henry Fielding. Sewell Stokes Francis Martin Sewell Stokes (16 November 1902, London – 2 November 1979, London) was an English novelist, biographer, playwright, screenwriter, broadcaster and prison visitor. He collaborated on a number of occasions
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"Mother of Mine" (2005), the Italian short film "Il supplente" ("The Substitute") (2007), and the Polish animated film "Peter and the Wolf" (2006). In 2010s the Belgian, French language film, "The Kid with a Bike" (2011) stands as an important children's film. In the 1960s, the UK made motion pictures dealing with children that are now regarded as classics. These films include "The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner" (1962), "Lord of the Flies" (1963), "Born Free" (1966), "To Sir, with Love" (1967) (based on E. R. Braithwaite's real experiences), and "if..." (1968). The list also includes the film "Kes"
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basis for the Sondheim musical), and the title role in a play about the music hall legend Marie Lloyd. In the early years of "Coronation Street" she played Lucile Hewitt's auntie. She was in the musical "Billy" at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, playing the mother of 'Billy Liar'. She played Golda in "Fiddler on the Roof", opposite Alfie Bass, at Her Majesty's Theatre in London. Among her various film roles were several British New Wave productions, "Saturday Night and Sunday Morning" and "The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner". Married to Derek Orchard, she died on 4 October 1990
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1950s. Harris also had a successful solo career as a costume designer for films, as well as reviving her couture house under the name Elizabeth Curzon. In the early days of Devine's newly founded English Stage Company at the Royal Court Theatre (founded 1956), the Motleys designed numerous productions. Harris designed the costumes for several Woodfall Films, including "Saturday Night and Sunday Morning" (1960), "A Taste of Honey" (1961), "The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner" (1962), and "This Sporting Life" (1963), and for Jack Clayton ("The Innocents" (1961) and "The Pumpkin Eater", for which she won a BAFTA Award
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Marion Alice Drury, from County Durham. After attending Bede Grammar School, Sunderland, Bolam attended Bemrose School in Derby. Bolam trained as a chartered accountant, before becoming an actor, and formally trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama, London. Bolam first appeared on screens in the early 1960s, initially in television shows such as "Z-Cars" and the Northern social realist films "A Kind of Loving" and "The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner" (both 1962), and with John Thaw in the Granada serial, "Inheritance" in 1967. It was "The Likely Lads", with Bolam as Terry Collier and Rodney Bewes
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Richardson's "The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner" (1962) and Anderson's own "This Sporting Life" (1963), produced by Reisz. Anderson's film met with mixed reviews at the time, and was not a commercial success. Anderson is perhaps best remembered as a filmmaker for his "Mick Travis trilogy", all of which star Malcolm McDowell as the title character: "if..." (1968), a satire on public schools; "O Lucky Man!" (1973) a "Pilgrim's Progress" inspired road movie; and "Britannia Hospital" (1982), a fantasia taking stylistic influence from the populist wing of British cinema represented by Hammer horror films and Carry On comedies. In
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in "The Bulldog Breed" (1960), a drunk in "The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner" (1962) and Hill in "The Offence" (1972). Theatre appearances included "The Hollow" at the Grand Theatre, Wolverhampton (1953), "The Gay Dog" at the Grand Theatre, Wolverhampton (1954), Joe in " The Ring of Truth" at the Savoy Theatre (1959), "There's a Girl in My Soup" at the Golders Green Hippodrome (1966), and Percy Elliott in "Epitaph for George Dillon" for the National Theatre at the Young Vic (1971). In TV comedy he appeared in "Steptoe and Son" as George in the episode "Full House" in
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was playwright Frederick Lonsdale. Like several members of the Fox family, he attended Harrow School. After leaving Harrow Fox took a short service commission in the Coldstream Guards. Fox first appeared on film in "The Miniver Story" in 1950. His other early film appearances were made under his birth name, William Fox. In 1962, Fox was working in a bank when Tony Richardson offered him a minor role in the film "The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner". Fox's father attempted to forbid this, claiming that his son had no talent for acting and that it would disrupt his life
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"The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner" (1962) and "Tom Jones" (1963). Lassally also worked with Greek filmmaker Michael Cacoyannis between 1956 and 1967, and with James Ivory in the 1970s and 1980s. In the 1990s he moved to Stavros, near Chania in Crete, the town where he shot "Zorba the Greek" in 1963. His autobiography, "Itinerant Cameraman", was published in 1987. He was featured in the book Conversations with Cinematographers by David A. Ellis, published by Scarecrow Press in 2011. He made his debut as an actor in Richard Linklater's "Before Midnight" (2013), where he played an older British
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most beautiful". Films about athletics are overwhelmingly focused on running events: the 1962 film "The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner" (based on the book of the same name) explores cross country running as a means of escape. "Chariots of Fire", perhaps one of the most well-known athletics films, is a fictionalised account of Eric Liddell and Harold Abrahams's chase for sprint gold medals at the 1924 Olympics. Track and field has been the subject of American films such as "Personal Best" (1981) and "Across the Tracks" (1991). Biopics are found within the genre, including "Prefontaine" (regarding Steve Prefontaine) and
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"The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner" (1962); Reisz directed "Saturday Night and Sunday Morning" (1960); and Anderson directed "This Sporting Life" (1963) and "If..." (1969). Many of these films have also been categorized as part of the kitchen sink realism genre, and many of them are adaptations of novels or plays written by members of Britain's so-called "angry young men". Free Cinema Free Cinema was a documentary film movement that emerged in the United Kingdom in the mid-1950s. The term referred to an absence of propagandised intent or deliberate box office appeal. Co-founded by Lindsay Anderson, (though he later
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when the day of the race arrives Smith throws victory away: after speeding ahead of the other runners he deliberately stops a few metres short of the finishing line, though well ahead and easily able to win. He lets the other runners pass him and cross the finishing line, thereby losing the race in a defiant gesture aimed against his Ruxton Towers administrators. In deliberately losing the race, Smith demonstrates his free spirit and independence. The response of the borstal authorities to Smith's action is heavy-handed: Smith resigns himself to the drudgery of manual labour he is returned to. However,
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to early 1960s as an elitist place, bleak for working- to middle-class people. Sillitoe was one of the angry young men producing media vaunting or depicting the plight of rebellious youths. The film has characters entrenched in their social context. Class consciousness abounds throughout: the "them" and "us" notions that Richardson stresses reflect the basis of British society at the time, so that Redgrave's "proper gentleman" of a Governor is in contrast to many of the young working class inmates. The film opens with Colin Smith (Tom Courtenay) running, alone, along a bleak country road somewhere in rural England. In
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the Ducie Technical High School for Boys. He entered the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) at the age of 16. Soon after leaving RADA, Thaw made his formal stage début in "A Shred of Evidence" at the Liverpool Playhouse and was awarded a contract with the theatre. His first film role was a bit part in the 1962 adaptation of "The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner" starring Tom Courtenay and he also acted on-stage opposite Sir Laurence Olivier in "Semi-Detached" (1962) by David Turner. He appeared in several episodes of the BBC police series "Z-Cars" in 1963–64 as
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to Malaya during the Emergency where he finds himself an unwilling combatant against Chinese communists, whom he thinks of more as comrades in the class struggle rather than as enemies. Based in part on the author's own experiences in Nottingham and in Malaya, the novel was unfavourably compared to the author’s previous stories of working class life in Nottingham, "Saturday Night and Sunday Morning" and "The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner", but proved popular enough to be reprinted in 1978. "Key to the Door" is the second part of the Seaton family trilogy which commenced with "Saturday Night and Sunday
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"The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner" (1962). He also had a non-speaking part as a waiter in "This Sporting Life" (1963). Throughout the 1960s he worked mostly on stage, including a turn as "Hamlet". In the late 1960s and early 1970s he established himself with roles in major British films, including "Oh! What a Lovely War" (1969), "Battle of Britain" (1969) and "The Go-Between" (1971). In "The Go-Between", he played the part of Lord Hugh Trimingham, for which he won a BAFTA award for Best Supporting Actor. His acting ability also brought him to the attention of director Fred
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theatrical agent, by the 1960s Fox was the senior partner of the Robin Fox Organization, with offices in Regent Street. As well as representing many performers, including Julie Christie, Paul Scofield, Marianne Faithfull, and Maggie Smith, he also acted on behalf of film-makers, of whom one was Joseph Losey. In 1962, Fox quarrelled bitterly with Tony Richardson, when he attempted to forbid his friend Richardson from giving his son Willie Fox a part in the film "The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner". Fox claimed Willie had no talent for acting and should not give up his job in a
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search warrant on a subsequent visit, but finds nothing. Finally, frustrated and angry, he returns to say he'll be watching Colin. As the two stand at Colin's front door in the rain, the torrent of water pouring down the drainpipe dislodges the money, which washes out around Colin's feet. This backstory is interspersed in flashbacks with Colin's present-time experiences at Ruxton Towers, where he must contend with the jealousy of his fellow inmates over the favouritism shown to him by the Governor—especially when the Governor decides not to discipline Colin, as he does the others, for rioting in the dining
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house; an argument ensues, and she tells Colin to leave until he can bring home some money. He and Mike take to the streets, and they spot an open window at the back of a bakery. There is nothing worth stealing except the cashbox, which contains about £70 (). Mike is all for another outing to Skegness with the girls, but Colin is more cautious and hides the money in a drainpipe outside his house. Soon the police call, accusing Colin of the robbery. He tells the surly detective (Dervis Ward) he knows nothing about it. The detective produces a
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classic "The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner" alongside appearances in "The Saint" and "The Avengers" in 1963. With his younger brother Doug and Honor Blackman, he co-authored "Honor Blackman's Book of Self-Defence" in 1965 (Joe was also a judo champion and black belt at karate). The year after he appeared in an episode of the sitcom "Pardon the Expression" which referenced this book. During this time he was also a popular stunt-arranger, working on several James Bond films and in 1960 was invited to Rome where he appeared in five muscle-bound Italian epics, including "Taur the Mighty" (1963), "Thor
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for which he refuses treatment. Colin rebels by refusing a job offered to him at his father's factory. The company has paid a paltry £500 in insurance money, and he watches with disdain as his mother (Avis Bunnage) spends what Colin considers an offensive sum. Colin symbolically burns some of his portion of the insurance money and uses the rest to treat Mike and two girls they meet to an outing in Skegness, where Colin confesses to his date, Audrey (Topsy Jane) that she is the first woman he's ever had sex with. His mother moves her lover into the
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Theatre in December 1972 he directed a revival of Terence Rattigan's wartime London comedy "While the Sun Shines". McCowen made his film debut in "The Cruel Sea" released in 1953. His other film credits include roles in "Town on Trial" (1957), "A Night to Remember" (1958), "The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner" (1962), "The Witches" (1966), Alfred Hitchcock's "Frenzy" (1972), "Travels with My Aunt" (1972, for which he received a Golden Globe nomination), "Never Say Never Again" (1983) and "Henry V" (1989) Television roles included the BBC's four-part adaptation of J. B. Priestley's "Angel Pavement" (1958), and his one-man
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in Athletics, in Daegu, South Korea, becoming the 5th male athlete to complete the long-distance double at the championships and the first British man to do so. Mustafa Mohamed, the Somali-Swedish long-distance runner who mainly competes in the 3000 meter steeplechase. Won gold in the 2006 Nordic Cross Country Championships and at the 1st SPAR European Team Championships in Leiria, Portugal in 2009. He beat the 31-year-old Swedish record in 2007. Abdihakem Abdirahman the Somali-American long-distance runner who specializes in the 10,000 metres, won Gold for this event at the US Olympic Trials in 2008. The Somalia national basketball team
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He wrote to Sir Francis Younghusband, president of the Royal Geographical Society, that Bullock was "a scholar and a very good runner, the best long distance runner that anyone remembered in my time ... I feel that he would be a valuable man in the party". The Foreign Office rejected Younghusband's request to grant leave to Bullock, who was in Lima at the time, to join the expedition but he gained a special dispensation from the British Foreign Secretary, Lord Curzon, so he could have leave on half pay until the end of 1921 but with no chance of this
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Katie Rainsberger Katherine (Katie) Rainsberger (born August 18, 1998) is an American long distance runner from Colorado. Her mother is former distance star Lisa Larson (Weidenbach) Rainsberger. She was also a swimmer who qualified for the Olympic team in 1980, though the U.S. boycotted the games. Lisa was a top-ranked long distance runner during most of the 1980s. She won the Boston Marathon in 1985, the last American woman to do so until Desiree Linden's win in 2018. Katie's father, Ellis, played football at Kansas State University. Lisa switched to the triathlon not long before Katie was born. Katie played
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describes "The Well of Loneliness" as "The first long and very serious novel entirely upon the subject of sexual inversion" She wrote "The Well of Loneliness" in part to popularise the ideas of sexologists such as Richard von Krafft-Ebing and Havelock Ellis, who regarded homosexuality as an inborn and unalterable trait: congenital sexual inversion. In Krafft-Ebing's "Psychopathia Sexualis" (1886), the first book Stephen finds in her father's study, inversion is described as a degenerative disorder common in families with histories of mental illness. Exposure to these ideas leads Stephen to describe herself and other inverts as "hideously maimed and ugly".
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Europe with other members of the Association Rosa management group. Her husband Tola Debel Gudeta is also a long distance runner with a PB of 2:23 hours in the marathon and 1:03 in the 20 km. Askale Tafa Askale Tafa Magarsa (born September 27, 1984) is an Ethiopian long distance runner, who has specialised in the marathon. Her sister, Tafa Megersa Mergertu, is also a marathon runner. In 2005, she was third in the Rome Marathon. In 2006, she won the Milan Marathon and was second at the Berlin 25 km in 1:28.13. The following year she won the Dubai
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Ryan Shay Ryan Shay (May 4, 1979 – November 3, 2007) was an American professional long-distance runner. He was born in Ypsilanti, Michigan, and attended the University of Notre Dame. He was married to Alicia Craig, also an American distance runner. Shay is survived by his wife Alicia, parents Joe and Susan, and his seven siblings: Jodie, Casey, Sarah, Amie, and younger brothers Nate (who also was a distance runner at Notre Dame), Elliott and Stephan. He won several USA championships titles. Ryan Shay attended Central Lake High School in Central Lake, Michigan, home of the Trojans, from 1993 to
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Games in Rio de Janeiro, beating fellow Kenyan Lineth Chepkurui to defend her title. Turning to the roads again, she won the Porto Half Marathon and then was the runner-up behind Aselefech Mergia at the Great South Run 10-miler in October. She took third place on the podium at the 2012 Great Manchester Run and World 10K Bangalore races. She is married to Kenya's long-distance runner Moses Masai as the couple has a daughter. Doris Changeywo Doris Chepkwemoi Changeywo (born 12 December 1984 in Chebyuk, Mount Elgon District) is a Kenyan long-distance runner who specialises in the 10,000 metres and
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Wilfred Kibet Kigen Wilfred Kibet Kigen (born 23 February 1975) is a Kenyan long distance runner who primarily competes in marathon races in Germany. His personal best for the distance is 2:07:33 hours, set in 2007. He is a three-time winner of the Frankfurt Marathon and won the Hamburg Marathon in 2010, after having finished as runner-up on three occasions. Hailing from Eldoret, Kenya, he had a childhood steeped in long-distance running – every day he would run 10 km to school as a child and his mother had been a successful athlete herself in the 1960s, winning prizes at
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Rabiou Guero Gao Rabiou Guero Gao (born 1 February 1988) is a Nigerien runner who has specialized in various middle-distance and long-distance disciplines. He represented Niger at the 2012 Summer Olympics. Guero Gao grew up in the Dosso area of Niger, where he was a recognized long-distance runner. He moved to France to continue training athletics in an Olympic-prep program he was selected for by Niger's Athletic Federation, as he was a favorite to break Niger's 1500-m national record set by Amadou Dogo in 2008. He competed in highly-varying disciplines from the 800 metres to even 10-km road races with
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ran the men's short race at the 2006 IAAF World Cross Country Championships, this time placing 57th of 126 finishers. At the 2008 Olympic Trials, he ran the 3000-m steeplechase, but did not make it past the preliminary round. Finally, Watson ran the marathon at the 2012 Olympic Trials, running a time of 2:15:29. Luke Watson (distance runner) Luke Watson (born August 20, 1980) is a retired long-distance runner who specialized in various track and road running disciplines. He represented the United States at the IAAF World Cross Country Championships in 2004 and 2006. He was a member of one
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Hermann Engelhard Hermann Engelhard (21 June 1903 – 6 January 1984) was a German middle-distance runner who won a bronze medal in the 800 meters at the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam. He also helped the German team of Otto Neumann, Harry Werner Storz and Richard Krebs to win the silver medal in the 4 × 400 m relay. Engelhard's brother Richard was an elite long-distance runner in the 1920s. In 1932 Engelhard married Ruth Becker, a German runner who set three world records in the 80 m hurdles and 4 × 200 m relay. Their son Bernd and daughter
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Kim Smith (runner) Kimberley "Kim" Smith (born 19 November 1981 in Papakura, Auckland) is a New Zealand middle-distance and long-distance runner who specialises in the 5000 and 10,000 metres. She is a 2005 graduate of Providence College (previously at Auckland's King's College, she first started running with Papakura Harriers. Smith won the 2004 NCAA Women's Individual Cross Country Championship. She won three NCAA individual titles in indoor track (5,000 metres and 3,000 metres) and outdoor track (5,000 metres) during the 2003–04 season. Her four NCAA individual championships are the most by any runner in Providence College history. She set a
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2:33:45 at the 2011 Berlin Marathon then 2:31:56 to take the runner-up spot at the Zurich Marathon. The start of the 2013 brought Neuenschwander a personal best of 2:30:50 with which she was the runner-up at the Hamburg Marathon. Maja Neuenschwander Maja Neuenschwander (born 13 February 1980 in Bern, Canton of Bern) is a Swiss long-distance runner who competes in marathon races. Her personal best for the marathon distance is 2:30:09 hours – run at the 2015 Vienna Marathon where she was the first female runner overall (the first Swiss victory in history). She has represented her country in the
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All-America honors in cross country, indoor track, and outdoor track and was coached by Tony Sandoval. In 1994, Cal recruited Polish-born distance runner Magdalena Lewy, who Boulet would eventually marry. After college, Boulet ran professionally for New Balance until 2000. On January 9, 1999, Boulet won the indoor mile at the 1999 New Balance Games at New York, against competition featuring James Njoroge, Tom Nohilly, Scott Anderson, Derek Treadwell, and Matt Holthaus. Richie Boulet Richie Boulet (born June 14, 1973) is a retired track runner who specialized in the mile, although he also ran in other various middle-distance and long-distance
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Anna Hahner Anna Hahner (born 20 November 1989) is a German long distance runner who specialises in the marathon. She and her twin sister, Lisa Hahner, were born in 1989. They were inspired to take up long distance running after hearing an interview with musician and amateur runner Joey Kelly when they were seventeen. Anna Hahner won the Vienna Marathon in 2014 but refused to take part in the European championships. Anna refused because she has set herself a limit of two marathons a year. Anna competed in the women's marathon event at the 2016 Summer Olympics. She and Lisa
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Ray Hatton Raymond Robert (Ray) Hatton was an English educator, author, and long-distance runner. Born in England, Hatton moved to the United States in 1956 to attend college, earning degrees in education and geography from University of Idaho and the University of Oregon. He was an award winning college geography professor for many years. Hatton wrote ten books on Oregon geography, history, and climatology. In the 1970s and 1980s, he won numerous Masters level running championships and set American records in several long-distance running events. Hatton was inducted into the USATF Masters Hall of Fame in 2001. Hatton was born
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Lisa Hahner Lisa Hahner (born 20 November 1989) is a German long distance runner who specialises in the marathon. She and her twin sister, Anna Hahner, were born in 1989. They were inspired to take up long distance running after hearing an interview with musician and amateur runner Joey Kelly when they were seventeen. Lisa and Anna competed in the women's marathon event at the 2016 Summer Olympics. Lisa and Anna finished the marathon together but at a time 15 minutes below their personal bests. Thomas Kurschilgen, the German athletics director, criticised their joint (81/82nd) finish publicly, but the picture
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Alexi Pappas Alexi Pappas or Alexia Pappa (Greek Αλεξία Παππά; born 28 March 1990) is a Greek-American long distance athlete, filmmaker, actor, and writer. As a long distance runner, Alexi has been most successful in the 10km, but has also been a National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) All-American at indoor 3,000 metres, 5,000 metres, and the steeplechase as well as the Ivy League champion in the steeplechase. In the 2016 Summer Olympics Women's 10km, Pappas represented Greece and set a national Greek record. As a filmmaker, Alexi co-wrote and starred in Tracktown. Pappas was born in San Francisco on 28
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Sandra Brown (ultradistance athlete) Sandra Brown (born 1 April 1949) is a British ultra distance walker / runner who holds a number of world records in the field of long distance walking. After a childhood which included many long family walks 'off the beaten track', Brown completed her first formal marathon in 1982 in Winchester, at age 33 years. That same year saw her enter her first 'ultra' (a race of a distance beyond the marathon's 26 miles 385 yards) with the 100 km Surrey Summits in April and a Long Distance Walkers Association (LDWA) crosscountry 100 mile event along
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Sant'Antonio) saw him chosen for the Brazilian team for the 2012 London Olympics. At the start of 2013 he dropped out of the Lake Biwa Marathon, but he showed a resurgence of form by winning the Maratona di Sant'Antonio in Italy – his first international victory. Paula serves in the Brazilian Army. His twin brother Luiz Fernando is also an international long-distance runner. He tried to qualify in the marathon for the 2012 Olympics. Paulo Roberto Paula Paulo Roberto de Almeida Paula (born 8 July 1979) is a Brazilian long-distance runner who competes in marathon races. He finished 8th at
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Thomas Wessinghage Thomas Wessinghage (born 22 February 1952 in Hagen, North Rhine-Westphalia) is a German former middle- and long-distance runner who won the 1982 European Championships' final over 5000 metres beating the British world-record holder David Moorcroft. Because he was already thirty at the time, and had been an international-level runner for a decade, this victory was a long-awaited one for him. He admitted that he decided to run the 5,000 metres instead of the 1,500 metres, because he lost to Ovett and Coe so often in the shorter distance. The fairly slow pace of the 1982 European Athletics Championships
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John Kibet Koech John Kibet Koech (born 23 August 1995) is a Kenyan-born long-distance runner who competes internationally for Bahrain. He specialises in the 3000 metres steeplechase and was the winner of the event at the 2015 Asian Athletics Championships. His elder brother Isiah is an Olympic long-distance runner. Koech first began competing at national level in the steeplechase in 2012, running at the national junior championships. He also acted as pacemaker at the Herculis meeting that year. The following year he won at the Kenyan Athletics Championships, but placed tenth at the national trial event for the 2013 World
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minutes for third place. His first major title followed shortly after at the 2015 Asian Athletics Championships where he was the steeplechase gold medallist, succeeding his compatriot and fellow former Kenyan Tareq Mubarak Taher. John Kibet Koech John Kibet Koech (born 23 August 1995) is a Kenyan-born long-distance runner who competes internationally for Bahrain. He specialises in the 3000 metres steeplechase and was the winner of the event at the 2015 Asian Athletics Championships. His elder brother Isiah is an Olympic long-distance runner. Koech first began competing at national level in the steeplechase in 2012, running at the national junior
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the Nagoya Marathon. In 1990 and 1991 she was named "Polish Sportswoman of the Year". Panfil is a four-time national champion in the women's 5.000 metres. Wanda Panfil Wanda Marianna Panfil-González (born 26 January 1959 in Tomaszów Mazowiecki) is a former long-distance runner from Poland, who won the world title in the women's marathon at the 1991 World Championships in Athletics in Tokyo, Japan. She is married to Mexican long-distance runner Mauricio González. Panfil twice competed for her native country at the Summer Olympics; in 1988 when she finished 22nd with a 2:34:35, and in 1992 when she finished in
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Craig Mottram Craig Mottram (born 18 June 1980) is an Australian long distance and middle distance runner who specialises in the 5000 m event. Mottram was born on 18 June 1980 in Frankston, Victoria. He attended Geelong Grammar School. At 6 feet 2 inches, Mottram is unusually tall for a distance runner. He competed in his first Olympic Games at only 20 years of age, in the 5000 metre event at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney: he did not qualify from his heat, but finished in 8th place with a respectable time of 13 minutes, 31.06 seconds. He fared
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Mieke Pullen Mieke Pullen née "Hombergen" (14 July 1957 – 28 January 2003) was a Dutch long-distance runner who competed mainly in marathon races. She ran thirty races over the distance in her career, winning races in Eindhoven, Amsterdam, Enschede and Singapore. She was a four-time Dutch champion over the distance. She was killed in a traffic accident while training in Haaren, aged 45. Pullen started her running career relatively late in life, beginning to take athletics seriously at the age of thirty. In spite of this, she had become a top level runner by 1988, when she came third
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8.31. In August 2012 Craig Mottram competed in the London Olympics 5000m for Australia. He was the fastest Australian at those Olympics, with a 13.40, but was unable to make it into the final. Craig Mottram Craig Mottram (born 18 June 1980) is an Australian long distance and middle distance runner who specialises in the 5000 m event. Mottram was born on 18 June 1980 in Frankston, Victoria. He attended Geelong Grammar School. At 6 feet 2 inches, Mottram is unusually tall for a distance runner. He competed in his first Olympic Games at only 20 years of age, in
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Wanda Panfil Wanda Marianna Panfil-González (born 26 January 1959 in Tomaszów Mazowiecki) is a former long-distance runner from Poland, who won the world title in the women's marathon at the 1991 World Championships in Athletics in Tokyo, Japan. She is married to Mexican long-distance runner Mauricio González. Panfil twice competed for her native country at the Summer Olympics; in 1988 when she finished 22nd with a 2:34:35, and in 1992 when she finished in 22nd position with a 2:47:27 in the women's marathon. During her career she won the London Marathon, the Boston Marathon, the New York City Marathon and
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Stephen Sambu Stephen Sambu (born July 7, 1988 in Kenya) is a Kenyan long distance runner who specialises in road running competitions. Stephen Sambu ran for the University of Arizona, where he was coached by James Li, who is also Bernard Lagat's long-term coach. For the Arizona Wildcats he was runner-up in the 10,000 meters at the 2012 NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships, runner-up at the 2012 NCAA Men's Division I Cross Country Championship, and a 9-time All-American. At Rend Lake College in Ina, Illinois, he captured 10 individual united states college national championships, including two National
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(2007). Tatyana Titova (runner) Tatyana Titova () (born August 6, 1965) is a retired long-distance runner from Russia who has won eleven marathons during her career. Her personal best of 2:29:36 was set during her victory at the 2004 San Diego Rock 'n' Roll Marathon. Titova is a three-time winner of the Columbus Marathon (1996, 1999, 2001) and a two-time winner of the California International Marathon (2002, 2003). She has also won a number of other marathons including the Paris Marathon (1992), the Hartford Marathon (1999), the Austin Marathon (2000), the Green Bay Marathon (2002), and the Gasparilla Distance Classic
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Tatyana Titova (runner) Tatyana Titova () (born August 6, 1965) is a retired long-distance runner from Russia who has won eleven marathons during her career. Her personal best of 2:29:36 was set during her victory at the 2004 San Diego Rock 'n' Roll Marathon. Titova is a three-time winner of the Columbus Marathon (1996, 1999, 2001) and a two-time winner of the California International Marathon (2002, 2003). She has also won a number of other marathons including the Paris Marathon (1992), the Hartford Marathon (1999), the Austin Marathon (2000), the Green Bay Marathon (2002), and the Gasparilla Distance Classic Marathon
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sister of 1988 World Cross Country silver medallist Angela Tooby. She is married to former distance runner Geoff Wightman. They have three children, twin sons Jake, who is a 1500m runner, and Sam and a daughter, Martha. Susan Wightman Susan Julia Wightman (née Tooby; born 24 October 1960) is a retired long-distance runner from Great Britain. Representing Wales, she finished sixth in the 10,000 metres at the 1986 Commonwealth Games. She set her personal best of 2:31:33 in the marathon, when finishing 12th at the 1988 Seoul Olympics. At the 1988 Great North Run, she became the first British woman
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the Oceanian records for the 3000, 5000 and 10,000 metres. Currently, she resides in Providence, Rhode Island. NR "indicates a New Zealand national record" Kim Smith (runner) Kimberley "Kim" Smith (born 19 November 1981 in Papakura, Auckland) is a New Zealand middle-distance and long-distance runner who specialises in the 5000 and 10,000 metres. She is a 2005 graduate of Providence College (previously at Auckland's King's College, she first started running with Papakura Harriers. Smith won the 2004 NCAA Women's Individual Cross Country Championship. She won three NCAA individual titles in indoor track (5,000 metres and 3,000 metres) and outdoor track
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Nicole Bush Nicole Bush (born April 4, 1986) is an American long-distance runner who competes in the steeplechase. Her personal record for the event is 9:24.59 minutes. She was the 2013 American champion in the steeplechase. She competed collegiately for the Michigan State Spartans and her best placing was second at the NCAA Outdoor Championship in 2009. She was also runner-up at the USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships in 2010. Born in Wyoming, Michigan, Bush attended Kelloggsville High School and established herself as a distance runner with four state titles in the 3200 m, and three state titles in
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Jéssica Augusto Jéssica de Barros Augusto, (born 8 November 1981) is a Portuguese runner who competes in cross country, road running and in middle-distance and long-distance track events. At club level, she represents Sporting CP. Augusto has enjoyed much success at the European Cross Country Championships. She won the event in 2010, was the runner-up in 2008, and shared in the team gold on three occasions. She was the first European-born runner to finish at the 2010 IAAF World Cross Country Championships, although she was 21st overall. She has represented Portugal in three World Championships in Athletics and at the
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13th at 2016 United States Olympic Trials (track and field) in 9:58.04. Nicole Bush Nicole Bush (born April 4, 1986) is an American long-distance runner who competes in the steeplechase. Her personal record for the event is 9:24.59 minutes. She was the 2013 American champion in the steeplechase. She competed collegiately for the Michigan State Spartans and her best placing was second at the NCAA Outdoor Championship in 2009. She was also runner-up at the USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships in 2010. Born in Wyoming, Michigan, Bush attended Kelloggsville High School and established herself as a distance runner with
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Mulugeta Wami Mulugeta Wami (born 17 July 1982) is an Ethiopian long-distance runner who specialises in the marathon. He has a personal best of 2:07:11 hours for the distance. He was the 2013 winner of the Ljubljana Marathon. Born in Addis Ababa, he is the brother of Gete Wami, the 1999 world champion and 2000 Olympic runner-up in the 10,000 metres. His first outing over the marathon distance came at the 2006 Amsterdam Marathon, where he finished ninth with a time of 2:13:19 hours. He improved to 2:11:47 hours at the following year's Eindhoven Marathon, taking fifth place In 2008
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Kim Merritt Kim Merritt (born May 22, 1955 in Racine, Wisconsin) is a former American long-distance runner who competed in the marathon. Her career coincided with the development of women's running in the United States and she was at the forefront of distance running in the mid-1970s. She won the 1975 New York City Marathon and in 1976 she took the women's titles at both the Boston and Honolulu Marathons. Her personal best time of 2:37:57, set at the 1977 Nike OTC Marathon, was an American record for the distance and made her the fourth best runner worldwide that year.
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at Deaconess Billings Clinic. He joined the staff at St. Vincent Healthcare in September 1994. Ellis made two attempts to climb Mount Everest, the world's highest mountain. In 1988, he was part of the expedition that was successful in putting the first two American women on the summit. Ellis, who also had been a long-distance runner who had previously qualified as an Olympic distance runner before he became a climber, was drawn to climbing in 1981 after seeing Mount Everest while at a seminar on Third World medicine in Nepal. Dr. Ellis qualified for the U.S. Olympic Trials as a
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