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Overview of Long-Distance Races

Long-distance races, ranging from 5,000m to 42 km, include events like the 5,000m, 10,000m, and marathon, with various popular distances such as half marathons and 30km races. Notable athletes include Kenenisa Bekele, Haile Gebrselassie, and Paula Radcliffe, who hold world records in their respective distances. Major marathons, like the New York Marathon, attract thousands of participants, making these events widely accessible and popular.

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Overview of Long-Distance Races

Long-distance races, ranging from 5,000m to 42 km, include events like the 5,000m, 10,000m, and marathon, with various popular distances such as half marathons and 30km races. Notable athletes include Kenenisa Bekele, Haile Gebrselassie, and Paula Radcliffe, who hold world records in their respective distances. Major marathons, like the New York Marathon, attract thousands of participants, making these events widely accessible and popular.

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Long distance races

Long-distance races or endurance races are a type of test ofathletics, that


consist of running distances that range from 5,000mup to 42 km that is
they dispute in the trial of themarathon. In theOlympic Gamesthere are only three tests, the
5,000 m, the 10,000 m and themarathon, although at a popular level such distances are run
varied like the twoleagues(about 12,000 m approx.), the fifteen kilometers, thehalf
marathon(21.097 m), or the 30km.

The hour race could also be included in this category, as it covers a


distance between 5,000 m and the marathon, but this one is almost
unknown and is rarely run (army competitions or sports parties
universities). They are popularly the most run distances, given that they require less
innate conditions and do not require excessively hard training to meet them.
In this way, many national capitals have their own marathon, being the most
famous the one ofNewYorkwith around 35,000 registered.

The historically most famous long-distance athletes can be, among all others: the
majority of Spaniards who did not qualify.

• Paavo Nurmithe flying FinnJJOO


from Paris 1924
• Emil Zátopek"the human locomotive", which prevailed in 5,000, 10,000 m and
Marathon in theHelsinki 1952 Olympics
• Hicham El Guerrouj, winner of 1,500 and 5,000 m in theAthens 2004 Olympics
• Haile Gebrselassie, which holds the marathon record at 2:03:59, and the record
10 km on the road.

The Ethiopian deserves a special [Link]


Bekele, which has broken records in successive
distances from eight years ago until today, currently holding the records of
5,000 and 10,000 m. The Kenyan also stands [Link] Tergat

World long-distance records


Male

• 5000 m12:37:35Kenenisa Bekele(Hengelo, May 31of2004)


• 10000 m26:17.53Kenenisa Bekele(Brussels, August 26of2005)
• Marathon2:03:59Haile Gebrselassie(Berlin, September 28of2008)

Female

• 5000 m - 14:24.53Meseret Defar(NewYork, June 3of2006)


• 10000 mJunxia Wang(Beijing, September 8of1993)
• Marathon - 2:15:25 -Paula Radcliffe(London, April 13of2003)

Substantive tests
Within the category of long-distance races, the following events are included:

• 5000 meters flat


• 10,000 meters flat
• Half marathon
• Marathon

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