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...other runners sniggered when they saw Abebe Bikila turn up at the start of the Olympic marathon with no shoes. As a television camera scanned the scrum of athletes readying themselves for the starter's gun, a commentator asked: "And what's this Ethiopian called?" It was 1960, Rome. Africa was just shrugging off the weight of colonial rule and some sporting officials still doubted Africans were ready for the big time. A little over 2 hr. 15 min. later that myth lay shattered by the slight man wearing number 11, a member of Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie's Imperial...
MARATHON 1925: 2:29:01.8, Albert Michelsen 1960: 2:15:16.2, Abebe Bikila, down 9.2% 1988: 2:06:50, Belayneh Dinsamo, down...
This was the first time since 1963 that Ethiopia had sent a delegation to the Boston Marathon. That year, 1960 Olympic gold medalist Abebe Bikila--who also won in 1964--and Mamo Wolde--who went on to win the 1968 Olympics--competed but didn't fare well...
...marathon, Waldemar Cierpinski, 29, of East Germany became the first runner to repeat as champion since Abebe Bikila of Ethiopia accomplished the feat in 1960 and 1964. In the 3,000-meter steeplechase, Bronislaw Malinowski, 29, of Poland finally finished on top after coming in fourth at Munich, second at Montreal. Filbert Bayi, 27, a Tanzanian miler running only the sixth steeplechase of his career, appeared to have the race in hand, leading by as much as 50 meters. But Malinowski mounted a stirring comeback and overtook Bayi with about 150 meters remaining. His time was 8:09.7, the fastest...
Died. Abebe Bikila, 40, supple Ethiopian who became the first black African to win an Olympic gold medal when he won the marathon in his bare feet in Rome in 1960 and the only athlete to win the event twice in a row with his victory in Tokyo in 1964; of a brain hemorrhage; in Addis Ababa. An Ethiopian national hero and member of Emperor Haile Selassie's elite Imperial Guard, Bikila missed the hat trick in Mexico City in 1968 because of a strained ankle. He was paralyzed from the waist down as the result of an auto...