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Born February 20, 1970 (age 55) • Ténès • Algeria
Awards And Honors Olympic Games
Carl Lewis
Carl Lewis
American athlete
Kip Keino
Kip Keino
Kenyan distance runner
Sebastian Coe, 2022
Sebastian Coe
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Peter Snell
Peter Snell
New Zealand athlete
Paavo Nurmi
Paavo Nurmi
Finnish runner
Gunder Hägg
Swedish athlete
Hannes Kolehmainen
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Meseret Defar
Meseret Defar
Ethiopian athlete
Ville Ritola
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Emil Zátopek
Emil Zátopek
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Steve Ovett
British runner
Wang Junxia
Chinese athlete
Lasse Virén
Finnish distance runner
Jack Lovelock
New Zealand athlete
Elliott, Herb
Herb Elliott
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Michael Johnson
Michael Johnson
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Marathon runner Abebe Bikila
Abebe Bikila
Ethiopian athlete
Hicham El Guerrouj
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Billy Mills
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Tatyana Kazankina clinching the gold medal in the 1,500-metre race at the 1980 Olympics in Moscow
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