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The men's marathon at the 1904 Summer Olympics in St. Louis, United States, took place on August 30 of that year, over a distance of 24 miles 1500 yards (40 km). [1]The race was run during the hottest part of the day on dusty country roads with minimal water supply; while 32 athletes coming from seven nations (the United States, France, Cuba, Greece, the Orange River Colony, Great Britain, and ...
File:Carte Marathon St-Louis-1904 EN.svg. ... English: Map depicting the course of the men marathon in Saint Louis (Mo.) during the 1904 Olympic games. Date: 5 August ...
He was the winner of a remarkable marathon race at the 1904 Summer Olympics, held as part of the World Fair in St. Louis, Missouri. Conditions were bad, the course being a dirt track, with large clouds of dust produced by the accompanying vehicles. Hicks was not the first to cross the finish line, trailing Fred Lorz. However, Lorz had abandoned ...
The top female finisher at a Missouri marathon last weekend has been disqualified for cheating. Kendall Schler was the first woman to cross the finish line of the Go! St. Louis Marathon on Sunday ...
Along Cape Tribulation, at the west end of Marathon Valley is a shallow crater about 110 feet (34 meters) long and about 80 feet (24 meters) wide, named "Spirit of St. Louis" after the record-breaking aircraft. [18] Within its center is a rock spire and the regolith in the crater has a darkened hue. [18]
The race was stopped three times for red flags and finished nearly six hours after it began.
Mellor running at 1904 Olympic Marathon. An announcement in the August 6, 1904, issue of The New York Times indicated that the Metropolitan Association of the Amateur Athletic Union would hold a "special five-mile race" at Celtic Park on August 13, 1904, with the eight top finishers receiving a paid trip to compete in the marathon at the Olympic Games in St. Louis on August 30, 1904. [16]
A photo taken between 1900 and 1902 shows him as a prisoner-of-war on Saint Helena. Little is otherwise known about his life. Taunyane may have been a student at the University of the Free State. He travelled to the United States in 1904 to appear in the Boer War Exhibition at the St Louis World's Fair.