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hare

(Encyclopedia) hare, name for certain herbivorous mammals of the family Leporidae, which also includes the rabbit and pika. The name is applied especially to species of the genus Lepus, sometimes…

table tennis

(Encyclopedia) table tennis, game played, usually indoors, by two or four players; it is more or less a miniature form of lawn tennis. It is also called Ping-Pong, after the trade name that a…

100-Meter Dash

1896 Thomas Burke, United States 12.00   1900 Francis W. Jarvis, United States 10.80…

200-Meter Dash

1900 John Tewksbury, United States 22.20 1904 Archie Hahn, United States 21.60 1908 Robert Kerr, Canada 22.60 1912 Ralph Craig, United States 21.70 1920 Allan Woodring, United States 22.00…

400-Meter Dash

1896 Thomas Burke, United States 54.20 1900 Maxwell Long, United States 49.40 1904…

800-Meter Run

800-Meter Run 1896 Edwin Flack, Australia 2:11.00 1900 Alfred Tysoe, Great Britain 2:01.40 1904…

1,500-Meter Run

1896 Edwin Flack, Australia 4:33.20 1900 Charles Bennett, Great Britain 4:06.00 1904…

5,000-Meter Run

1912 Hannes Kolehmainen, Finland 14:36.60 1920 Joseph Guillemot, France 14:55.60 1924…