Running for Black Gold: Fifty Years of African Athletics
By Unknown Author.
Description
The half century since the Ethiopian marathon runner, Abebe Bikila, won the Olympic gold medal in world record time in Rome in 1960 has been a golden period for African athletics. Since then, Africans have won 57 Olympic gold medals, numerous IAAF World Championships gold and established a string of world records in international competition. Most, but not all, come from the Eastern African highlands of Kenya and Ethiopia with other notable successes from Mediterranean athletes especially Morocco; and they are amongst the very elite of the world s athletes. Running for Black Gold documents ...
ISBN(s)
9766375984, 9789766375980
