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    "Wie is ? Roger Moens" (in Dutch). Nieuwsblad.be. 30 April 2010. Archived from the original on 12 June 2011. Retrieved 1 November 2010. "Moens Cuts 800-Meter...
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  • List of male middle-distance runners (category Lists of male athletes)
    McMillen, USA Hailu Mekonnen, ETH Ted Meredith, USA Assefa Mezgebu, ETH Roger Moens, BEL Enrique Molina, ESP David Moorcroft, GBR Noureddine Morceli, ALG...
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  • his outside. Coming off the turn, Moens pounced, passing Wägli in lane 2 with clear sailing to victory. But Moens' move broke up the pack, it was a free-for-all...
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  • Ivo Van Damme (category Olympic athletes for Belgium)
    from mononucleosis the following season, but returned strong beating Roger Moens's 1955 national 800 m record. The record stood for 48 years and was finally...
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    Mo Farah (category European Athlete of the Year winners)
    athlete in modern Olympic Games history. Farah is the 2012 and 2016 Olympic gold medallist in both the 5,000 m and 10,000 m. He is the second athlete...
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  • qualifying phase for athletics at the 2024 Summer Olympics. More than 1,800 athletes, with an equal split between men and women, will compete across forty-eight...
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    Nafissatou Thiam (category Olympic athletes for Belgium)
    [tʃam]; born 19 August 1994) is a Belgian athlete specialising in multi-event competition. She is the first athlete with three multi-event gold medals at...
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    Practical Approach for the Differential Diagnosis of Chronic Leg Pain in the Athlete". The American Journal of Sports Medicine. 33 (8): 1241–1249. doi:10...
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    Franz-Josef Kemper (category Athletes (track and field) at the 1968 Summer Olympics)
    Franz-Josef Kemper (born 30 September 1945) is a German athlete, Olympian, and official. He achieved his greatest success as a middle-distance runner...
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  • "Colombia, presente con 51 atletas, en 10 deportes" [Colombia, present with 51 athletes, in 10 sports] (in Spanish). 6 June 2017. Archived from the original on...
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    aerobic endurance with anaerobic conditioning and sprint speed, so the 800m athlete has to combine training for both. Runners in this event are occasionally...
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    Gaston Reiff (category Olympic athletes for Belgium)
    Emil Zátopek in the final and becoming the first Belgian track and field athlete to win an Olympic title. He lost to Zátopek at the 1950 European Championships...
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    Bashir Abdi (category Athletes from Mogadishu)
    world championship medal winner at the marathon and the first Belgian male athlete to win an individual medal at both the Olympic Games and World Athletics...
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    personnel, industrialists, bankers, entertainers, socialites, and professional athletes. Second-class passengers were predominantly middle-class travellers and...
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    first hockey player and first Canadian to be named Associated Press Male Athlete of the Year. He was also named 1982 "Sportsman of the Year" by Sports Illustrated...
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    Kim Gevaert (category Olympic athletes for Belgium)
    final of the 200 metres, which was celebrated together with fellow Belgian athlete Tia Hellebaut, who had won gold in the high jump final only minutes before...
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    gold and reached the podium twice. No athlete of either sex has won more than two medals. Historically, athletes in this event have also been successful...
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  • Henri Haest (category Athletes (track and field) at the 1952 Summer Olympics)
    Henri Haest (2 November 1926 – 20 June 1997) was a Belgian athlete. He competed in the men's hammer throw at the 1952 Summer Olympics. Evans, Hilary;...
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  • several world-record holders such as Rudolf Harbig, Gordon Pirie and Roger Moens. Gerschler was born in Meißen on 14 June 1904. He obtained his Abitur...
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    Peter Snell (category Track & Field News Athlete of the Year winners)
    Olympics after Albert Hill in 1920, and it has not been achieved by any male athlete at the Olympics since. It was not achieved by a male at an open global...
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  • 1938 1:46.6 Rudolf Harbig  Germany Milan, Italy July 17, 1939 1:45.7 Roger Moens  Belgium Oslo, Norway August 3, 1955 1:44.9 Franz-Josef Kemper  West...
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  • memoirist Marie Modiano (born 1978), French singer and writer Marie-Francine Moens, Belgian computer scientist Marie Moentmann, American accident victim Marie...
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  • Kingdom 1:46.6  Rudolf Harbig (GER) 1939-07-15 Milan, Italy 1:45.7  Roger Moens (BEL) 1955-08-03 Oslo, Norway 1:44.3+  Peter Snell (NZL) 1962-02-03 Christchurch...
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    time of Henry II (1154–1189). In 1280, Sir Roger d'Wasseburne paid a subsidy of 15s at Washbourne. Roger is shown as "of Washbourne, Little Comberton...
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    roles that can provide resources while being protective (CEO, doctor, athlete, lawmen). Studies on harmful effects of pornography include finding any...
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  • Rudolf Harbig (category Athletes from Dresden)
    Whitfield could not threaten it. Not until August 1955 the Belgian runner Roger Moens could set a new world record of 1:45.7. Also, in 1939 Harbig set a world...
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    Emiel Puttemans (category Olympic athletes for Belgium)
    and Mrs. Van de Wielle and Fred Debels) 1954 Adolph Verschueren 1955 Roger Moens 1956 Gilberte Thirion 1957 Jacques Brichant and Philippe Washer 1958...
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  • then-world record time—but in a race in which he finished second, to Roger Moens of Belgium. Moens was injured and did not compete in Melbourne. Boysen faced American...
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    Jakob Ingebrigtsen (category European Athlete of the Year winners)
    2022. On 27 May, still 16 years old, Ingebrigtsen became the youngest athlete in history to run the one-mile distance in less than 4 minutes, when he...
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  • (Finland) According to an unofficial count, 1125 athletes from 43 countries participated in the event, 12 athletes more than the official number of 1113 and...
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