Timeline for Did an athlete lap the rest of the runners after an illness that left him in bed for a long time before the competition?
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| Apr 22, 2017 at 21:38 | vote | accept | fedorqui | ||
| Apr 21, 2017 at 0:57 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackSport/status/855223936950439936 | ||
| Apr 19, 2017 at 13:38 | answer | added | fedorqui | timeline score: 8 | |
| Apr 19, 2017 at 12:55 | comment | added | JeopardyTempest | Haha, I just didn't look far enough. 1934: 0.7 seconds, 1938: 1.2 seconds, and similar tiny 5K values. Go figure! You should write up an answer detailing this further :-) | |
| Apr 19, 2017 at 12:49 | comment | added | fedorqui | @JeopardyTempest oh, look at 1946 European Athletics Championships – Men's 10,000 metres! 39 seconds between 1st and 2nd (both Finnish). It does not mean lapping him, but nearly close. Oh and then Emil Zatopek in 1950 arrived 1 min 9 sec before the 2nd. So probably it was him!! | |
| Apr 19, 2017 at 12:11 | comment | added | JeopardyTempest | en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1934_European_Athletics_Championships offers results for your competition (and you can click back and forth between years on the right)... it looks like even the earliest 5k and 10k races were decided by only a few seconds, so I don't think you'll find anyone lapping the entire field. Perhaps a runner or two. Or maybe it was a longer event yet, or some lesser competition? Then again, when absurd things like this happen... wouldn't be the most surprising result ever. | |
| Apr 19, 2017 at 8:37 | history | asked | fedorqui | CC BY-SA 3.0 |