middle distance runner
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Robbie Fitzgibbon, a middle distance runner, represented his country at several international events.
From BBC • Oct. 12, 2024
Former and current athletes include Kendall Spencer, a long jumper who went to New Mexico; Megan Koch, a middle distance runner from Colorado College; and Madeleine McKenna, a volleyball player from California University of Pennsylvania.
From Seattle Times • Aug. 10, 2021
I did a report on an Olympic middle distance runner named Brenda Martinez, who had a positive test for antidepressants that she was taking.
From Slate • Jul. 12, 2021
The Court of Arbitration for Sport on Friday imposed a four-year period of ineligibility for Russian middle distance runner Mariya Savinova-Farnosova, saying there was "clear evidence" she used banned performance-enhancing substances.
From Reuters • Feb. 10, 2017
Ron Clarke, Australia's greatest middle distance runner the man who lit the caldron at the Melbourne Olympics in 1956, has died of kidney failure at the age of 78 in Gold Coast, Australia.
From Los Angeles Times