im just interested in knowing whos your favourite athlete of all time from each country, just pick one for each nation though.
ill start....
United States: Bob Kennedy
Canada: Kevin Sullivan
Uk: Sebastian Coe
Kenya: Paul Tergat
Ethopia: Haile Gebresalassie
Russia: yuriy borzakovski
Namibia - Lucketz Swartbooi (also my favorite runner name)
Djibouti - Djama Robleh
Luxembourg - Josy Barthel
Ecuador - Rolando Vera
Ok,each country, alphabetically,
Afganistan, um, let me get back to you.
Albania, yeah, it'll come to me.
Andorra, They had this great, no that's not the guy.
Maybe the Bs
Belgium, yeah, Marc Smet. Great name.
Bosnia, there was this woman marathoner who'd have been great but was killed in the artillery shelling.
Bulgaria, like Afganistan.
Burundi, yeah, like Albania.
How's that?
Canada - Simon Bairu
America - Brian Sell
Ethiopia - Geb
Kenya - Robert Cheruiyot
Morocco - El Guerrouj
South Africa - Hendrick Ramaala
UK - Seb Coe
Qatar - Saeed Saif Shaheen
Australia - Robert de Castella
Tanzania - Jumo Ikangaa
Rwanda - Dieudonne Disi (I actually follow his races, I don't know why)
HRE wrote:
Ok,each country, alphabetically,
Afganistan, um, let me get back to you.
Albania, yeah, it'll come to me.
Andorra, They had this great, no that's not the guy.
Maybe the Bs
Belgium, yeah, Marc Smet. Great name.
Bosnia, there was this woman marathoner who'd have been great but was killed in the artillery shelling.
Bulgaria, like Afganistan.
Burundi, yeah, like Albania.
How's that?
Ever heard of Venuste Niyongabo
Atanvarno wrote:
HRE wrote:Ok,each country, alphabetically,
Afganistan, um, let me get back to you.
Albania, yeah, it'll come to me.
Andorra, They had this great, no that's not the guy.
Maybe the Bs
Belgium, yeah, Marc Smet. Great name.
Bosnia, there was this woman marathoner who'd have been great but was killed in the artillery shelling.
Bulgaria, like Afganistan.
Burundi, yeah, like Albania.
How's that?
Ever heard of Venuste Niyongabo
of course from burndi.
niyongabo ran 145 for 800.
329 for 1500 and
1303 for 5k about 10-12 years ago.
and was Olympic 5km champ in Atlanta!
Yeah, but I'm not sure he's my favorite.
New Zealand Rod Dixon, John Walker Can't believe it took this long for Dixon to be named
Australia Herb Eliot
Zatopek and if you don't know where he was from then you are not a real runner
Ethiopia Yifter the Shifter
Italy Bordin
Switzerland Bucher
Germany Baumann
Kenya Koman
Somalia Bile
Australia Ron Clark also
Morocco Hicham
Cuba Juantorena
Norway Grete Waitz
Sweden Vaatainen
Japan Seko
USA Steve Scott
Portugal Carlos Lopes
Belguim Puttemans
Ireland Eammon Coglan
Britain Coe and Cram
Brazil, Joaquim Cruz....maybe 800 doesn't count for this list, but, whatever
Italy, Stefano Baldini
US - Salazar
Canada - Drayton
Brazil - Cruz
England - Coe
Japan - Seko
Kenya - Rono
Australia - Clarke
N.Z. - Walker
HRE wrote:
Yeah, but I'm not sure he's my favorite.
Great post :-)
tbrown wrote:
im just interested in knowing whos your favourite athlete of all time from each country, just pick one for each nation though.
ill start....
United States: Bob Kennedy
Canada: Kevin Sullivan
Uk: Sebastian Coe
Kenya: Paul Tergat
Ethopia: Haile Gebresalassie
Russia: yuriy borzakovski
let me finish the rest for you:
baseball team: Yankees
basketball team: Lakers, soon to be Celtics
hockey team: Red Wings
baseball team: red sox
college bball: duke
college football: USC
cross country: was Stanford, shifting toward Oregon.
HRE wrote:
Yeah, but I'm not sure he's my favorite.
There are a few from Burundi to choose from, including:
Arthemon Hatungimana
Dieudonne Kwizera
Patrick Ndayisenga
Aloys Nizigama
They actually had a few good runners back in the 80s and 90s.
Algeria: Noureddine Morceli
Argentina: Delfo Cabrera
Australia: Craig Mottram
Belgium: Ivo van Damme
Botswana: Otukile Lekote
Brazil: Joaquim Cruz
Canada: Bruce Kidd
China: Wang Junxia
Columbia: Domingo Tibaduiza
Croatia: Branko Zorko
Cuba: Alberto Juantorena
Czechoslovakia: Emil Zatopek
Denmark: Wilson Kipketer
Djibouti: Ahmed Salah
Ecuador: Rolando Vera
England: Paula Radcliffe
Eritrea: Zersenay Tadese
Ethiopia: Miruts Yifter
Finland: Lasse Viren
France: Benoit Zwierzchiewski
Germany: Uta Pippig
Greece: Phidippides
Haiti: Moise Joseph
Ireland: John Treacy
Italy: Gelindo Bordin
Japan: Naoko Takahashi
Kenya: Ben Jipcho
Latvia: Einars Tupuritis
Mexico: Dionicio Ceron
Morocco: Khalid Skah
Mozambique: Maria Mutola
Namibia: Lucketz Swartbooi
Netherlands: Kamiel Maase
New Zealand: John Walker
Norway: Grete Waitz
Poland: Boguslaw Maminski
Portugal: Carlos Lopes
Romania: Gabriela Szabo
Russia: Olga Markova
Somalia: Abdi Bile
South Africa: Henrick Ramaala
South Korea: Lee Bong Ju
Spain: Martin Fiz
Sudan: Omar Khalifa
Suriname: Letitia Vriesde
Switzerland: Viktor Rothlin
Tanzania: Juma Ikangaa
Tunisia: Mohamed Gammoudi
Uganda: Moses Kipsiru
Ukraine: Ivan Heshko
USA: Frank Shorter
Venezuela: William Wuyke
Wales: Steve Jones
Zimbabwe: Philemon Hanneck
you got a little too much time on your hands
what
Democratic Republic of Congo
Mwenze Kalombo