Portal:Sport of athletics/Did you know/4

... that Erica Larson, a chemist at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, won the Pikes Peak mountain marathon five times in six years between 1999 and 2004, more than any other woman in the event's history?
... that all four deaths in the thirty annual Chicago Marathons have occurred in the last ten years?
... that wind assistance has caused the non-ratification of many potential world records in athletics?
... that Patrick Ivuti's photo finish victory in the 2007 Chicago Marathon, one of the five major marathons, was his first marathon victory?

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