Sentences with phrase «middle distance events»

For a long time she competed at middle distance events and continually had the heartbreak of leading from the front of the whole race until she was overtaken in the final straight.

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Coaches give instruction and training in events such as sprinting (100m, 200m, 400m), middle and long distance running (800m & 1600m), field events (long jump, shot put, discus, mini-javelin and hurdles).

That means a victory in every one of the men's events, to wit: 1) the 500, which takes no more than 40 seconds; 2) the slightly less explosive 1,000, in which Eric holds the world record of 1:13.60; 3) the middle - distance 1,500 at roughly 2:15; 4) the 5,000, which demands both endurance and hard driving, at about 8:20; and 5) the muscle - devouring event that is the speed skater's version of the marathon, the 10,000.

In the women's events, Brits Hannah England and Laura Weightman will line up in the 1500m against world champion Abeba Aregawi of Sweden and the woman of the moment in middle - distance terms, recent African 3000m record - setter Hellen Obiri.

Working with internationally - renowned scientists and healthcare professionals, we run events at the Wellcome Genome Campus in Hinxton, a short distance from the historic city of Cambridge and home to the world - famous Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute and EMBL - European Bioinformatics Institute; and overseas in low - and middle - income countries.

(For those «coming in in the middle» — assuming any such are still reading — this subthread began with a link I provided discussing the vulnerability our complex society bears WRT to very large volcanic eruptions, in the context of the robustness of some Stone Age populations who «thrived» during the event — albeit at a considerable distance!)