Olympic marathon in Rio 2016.

Olympic marathon in Rio 2016.

Closer to the beginning of the track and field competitions at the Olympic Games in Rio in 2016. I believe that most of us joggers, runners looks forward marathon and the women’s and the men’s competition, in which our country has one representative in both races. While professional sport is increasingly becoming a global entertainment for the masses, while cash and various types of doping as a result of the desire to be at all costs succeed become more decisive factors of today’s sport, how would probably say our famous basketball Ljubodrag Duci Simonovic-who his books are often stigmatized modern Olympic movement, its founder and prfesionalni sport in general, we hope that the “queen of sports” preserve at least some of the nobility, chivalry, sportsmanship .. and if the maxim of English priests at the beginning of this century, it is important to participate more often though the majority of “no drinking water”, what the Olympic motto of “faster, higher and stronger” should not be at any price.
On the occasion of this had just been said about the games and athletics brings an overview of the marathon in Olympic history. After the 28-time marathon will be run in the men’s competition, while the women will perform the 9th time. Women were first performed in the marathon at the Olympic Games in Los Angeles in 1984 when the American Joan Benoit triumphed 2:24:52. The current Olympic record is held by Ethiopian Tiki Gelana with 2:23:07, and placed him at the last Olympic Games in London 2012 and 5 August. Besides her another Ethiopian won the gold, it was Fatuma Roba in Atlanta 1996 with a score of 2:26:05. Twice a gold won by the Japanese women: Naoko Takahashi in Sydney in 2000 with 2:23:14 and Mizuki Noguchi with 2:26:20. From European women have won gold famous Rosa Mota of Portugal, which has dominated the women’s marathon eighties, in Seoul in 1988 with 2:25:40, followed by Russian, Valentina Yegorova in Barcelona in 1992 with 2:32:41 and Romania, Constantina Dita Tomescu in Beijing in 2008 with 2:26:44. Kenyan up to now have 3 silver (Caherine Ndereba 2004 and 2008 and Priscah Jeptoo 2012) and one bronze (Joyce Chepchumba 2000) Japanke have and one silver and bronze, both medals Yuko Arimori 1992 and 1996, while rainbow trout i have one bronze Deena Kastor 2004. Russian Yegorova was silver in 1996, while her compatriot Tatyana Arkhipova the bronze 2012. the said Rosa Mota was a bronze in 1984, and a German Katrin Dörre 1988, New Zealander Lorraine Moller in 1992 and Chinese Zhou Chuxiu 2008. Silver was even more famous Norway’s Grete Waitz 1984 Australian Lisa Martin in 1988 and Romania’s Lidia Simon of 2000. The largest number of participation has a Romanian Lidia Simon, five times, ran the marathon at the Olympic Games from 1996 to 2012, while the men’s 5 also participate in the same time period, there is little known Toni Bernado from Andorra.
In the men’s competition is much longer tradition and of course there are many more statistics. Marathon as an athletic discipline was scheduled games since the first modern Olympic Games in Athens in 1896 and is run under any games, except that the length of the track is not in the beginning was exactly determined, was about 40 km to the Games in London in 1908 the longitudinally defined at 42195m or 26 miles and 385 yards. Most gold medals have 4 Ethiopians dominated the 60s of last century, Americans and then conditionally speaking French (naturalized, not one was a real Frenchman) at 3. With two gold medals with the Italians, Germans, Finns, Argentines, Koreans ( winner of the marathon in Berlin in 1936. Sonho Kee-Chung who ran for Japan was Korean), representatives of the Republic of South Africa. After a gold in the men’s competition with the Greeks, Czechs, Portuguese, Kenyans and Ugandans. The current Olympic champion from London 2012 Uganđanin Stephen Kiprotich with 2:08:01, while Olympic record holder Kenyan Samuel Wanjiru Kamau 2:06:32 with the Beijing Games in 2008, which is now the only gold for Kenyans in the Olympic marathon. (Who knew!) Only two people have defended the gold medal in the Olympic marathon, first famous Ethiopian Abebe Bikila in 1960 and 1964, followed by Germany’s Waldemar Cierpinski in 1976 and 1980. In the seventies he was a prominent American runner Frank Shorter, the winner in 1972. in Munich and a silver in 1976 in Montreal., while the 30-ies very noticeable was the Argentine Juan Carlos Zabala, LosAnđelesu winner in 1932, but gave up in Berlin in 1936 after the initial lead. Svakoko worth mentioning famous Czechs Emil Zatopek ( “Czech locomotive”) who took gold in Helsinki in 1952, and at the same games triumphed in the 5,000 and 10,000 meters, which no one else has failed, then our Mihalića which was silver in Melbourne 1956 ., as well as the famous Italian confectioners Doranda Pietrija which is far before I reached the goal in London in 1908, and then on the track at the stadium collapsed, and support staff-judges have practically entered into the target, and therefore it was later disqualified.
Interestingly, the famous British Pola Redcliff, which is still by far holds the world record in the women’s marathon 2:15:25 and has the three best times in history so far, has not had success in the Olympic marathon, and participated in 2004 and 2008, and our Olivera Jevtic in Athens in 2004 was 6-ta.
Good luck to our Olivera Jevtic and Andjelko Risticevic in Rio, as I want and Croatian women and Mary Vrajić Matei Matosevic. In men’s competition, expect a lot of Italians and Brazilians might. Of course, I believe that Kenyans favorites, and perhaps Ethiopians, or in the Olympic marathon in no way know. Therefore, we look for 14 and 21 August.