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The incredible legacy left by Tameside s Olympic running legend Ron Hill may never be surpassed
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Funeral held of Lancashire running legend Ron Hill
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Dina Asher-Smith crosses the line to claim victory in a cold, wet north east England
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Make no mistake, this was a Dina Asher-Smith victory with serious ramifications: irrefutable proof that she can beat Sha’Carri Richardson and Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce over 100 metres. Britain’s golden girl took on the very best sprinters in the world and won. Bring on the Olympics.
There may yet prove one minor issue. Gateshead on Sunday night could scarcely have borne less resemblance to the conditions these women will encounter in Tokyo in two months’ time. Indeed, if a sprinter were ever to describe the worst possible environment to race in this was it.
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Ron Hill, one of the greatest marathon runners of all time, who smashed the Boston Marathon record and also inspired the “streaking” movement by running every day for more than 52 years, died in his home town of Hyde, Cheshire, England, on May 23. He was 82. Three years ago he announced that he was suffering from dementia.
Hill’s standing in elite running history rests on a superlative sequence of races that began in 1968, when he twice set the world track record for 10 miles (46:44.0). In 1969, he won the European marathon championship on the tough Marathon to Athens course. In April 1970, he broke the Boston Marathon record by 3 minutes, running 2:10:30, becoming the first Briton to win that race. Three months later he won the Commonwealth Games marathon in Edinburgh in another huge European, British, and Games record of 2:09:28.
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