Middle-distance running

Medium distances are in athletics, the running tracks of 800 meters to the English mile (1609 m). Other, rarely covered distance lengths like 600 or 2000 meters are usually classified under medium-range, to distinguish them from sprint and long distances. The 3000 - meter track and the 3,000-meter steeplechase are sometimes assigned to the middle-distance in statistics, but are strictly speaking long haul.

At Olympic Summer Games 800 and 1500 meters are run, with the men since the first games in 1896. For the women in the 800 - meter race was the first time in 1928 in the program, but was dropped again immediately, because the track is the face of the exhaustion runners considered unacceptable long. Since 1960, the course is again olympic, and since 1972, the women also run 1500 meters at the Olympics. Once, in 1908, middle-distance runners were also involved in the relay race, when the Olympic relay ( 400/200/200/800 m) was run.

However, they also races over 1000 meters and - mainly in the Anglo- Saxon countries - relatively often over a mile. The International Athletics Federation also registered over 2000 meters world records, as well as the relay race 4 x 800 and 4 times 1500 meters ( men only).

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800 -meter run
1000 -meter run
1500 -meter run
Mile run

List of Olympic champion in athletics

List of Olympic champion in athletics

Athletics

Sprint (running) Long-distance running Summer Olympic Games 1960 Summer Olympics International Association of Athletics Federations Middle-distance running#1000 m Albert Hill (athlete) Douglas Lowe (athlete) Ann Packer Nadezhda Olizarenko Ellen van Langen Maria Mutola Charles Bennett (athlete) Arnold Jackson (British Army officer) John Walker (athlete)

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