Word: minning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...twentieth Nurmi looked over his shoulder at lurching, wavering Ray. Then he set his eyes on the tape, flashed through it, trotted off to his dressing room. Eighty yards behind came Ray, crossed the finished, collapsed into the arms of an admirer. Nurmi's time was 7 min. 55 2/5 sec. -one-fifth of a second better than the world's record for this distance which he established in Manhattan a fortnight ago. Half an hour later he had mounted another train, was bound back to Manhattan again to compete in the Fordham University games...
...sped Nurmi, round and round, after runners who had started many yards ahead of him. Twice, on the sharp turns of the track, he slipped, lost his stride, yet when he broke the tape, he broke also the world's indoor* record for this distance, his time 5 min. 33 sec. After him panted Gunnar Nilson, who had started with a 125-yard handicap...
Before Nurmi's race, a rival Finn, Willie Ritola, started from scratch, padded five long miles, four times tapped the field of wearying runners, lowered by eight seconds the world's indoor record. Ritola's time was 24 min...
...world's outdoor mark is 5 min. 26 3/10 sec., established by Paavo Nurmi...
...record, set by Hannes Kolehmainen in 1913, was 24 min...