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The sport of running involves footraces over a variety of distances and courses and is among the most popular sports of nearly all times and places. Modern competitive running ranges from sprints (dashes), with an emphasis on continuous high speed, to grueling long-distance and marathon races, requiring great endurance. This is an alphabetically ordered list of runners arranged by place of origin or residence.(See also athletics; cross-country; hurdling; long-distance running; marathon; middle-distance running; relay race; sprint; steeplechase.)

Algerian

American

Australian

British

Canadian

Chinese

Cuban

Czech

Dutch

  • Fanny Blankers-Koen

Ethiopian

Finnish

French

German

Greek

Jamaican

Kenyan

New Zealander

Norwegian

Polish

Russian/Soviet

Somali

South African

Swedish

Ukrainian

This article was most recently revised and updated by Richard Pallardy.