Twitter Google Share on Facebook pentathlon (redirected fromOlympic pentathlon) Thesaurus Medical Encyclopedia pen·tath·lon (pĕn-tăth′lən, -lŏn′) n. 1.An athletic contest consisting of five track and field events, usually running races at two different distances, the long jump, and...
the Paris Paralympic track and field medal standings with 38 medals, including 10 golds. Jaydin Blackwell swept the T38 100m and 400m at worlds in 2023 and 2024, plus at the Paris Games. Roderick Townsend-Roberts won all eight Paralympic and world titles in the T47 high jump dating to ...
Marathon Swimming is a sport that involves athletes swimming in open water for a long period of time over lengthy distances in a test of endurance. The Marathon Swimming event at the Olympics is 10 kilometres. The aim is to finish the race as quickly as possible, and participants are often...
The catch is that Pheidippides had come from twice running what today is known as theSpartathlon, a 246km ultramarathon race which is also organized yearly in Greece, between Athens and Sparta. Thus, the feats of Pheidippides have yielded two modern running race distances and hundreds of events...
She has twelve additional individual victories at distances up to 30 km from 1996 to 2006. Zayalova took the 2007-08 season off to pregnancy, but returned for the 2008-09 season. Since her retirement after the 2010 Winter Olympics, Zayalova has been acting as a sports ambassador for the...
She also has fourteen individual victories at various levels in distances up to 5 km in her career from 1998 to 2006. From the 2012/2013 season, she switched to biathlon, citing motivational problems, and was given a slot in the German B-team. Members of the B-team are elig...
Subsequent editions have grown larger and larger, with more runners, more spectators, and greater distances. The 2004 relay reached all seven continents on its way from Olympia to Athens. The relay is now one of the most splendid and cherished of all Olympic rituals; it emphasizes not only ...
Distance Measurement:Go outside and measure the distances of various Olympic events, such as the long jump, javelin throw, or marathon (you’ll need to drive this one!). Kids can also practice converting between units (meters to feet, kilometers to miles). ...
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48.02 for Cranny — but those times can be competitive if they can hang with the tactics they’ll encounter on the Olympic track.Rachel Schneiderhas had a breakthrough season this year as she’s moved up from the 1,500m to race longer distances. Her 14:52.04 PR race in ...