World Champs trivia Q

[Powell]

Which 3 events currently contested in the outdoor world championships have never had a repeat winner ?
And which event has had ONLY repeat winners, i.e. everyone who's won a world title has won it at least twice ?

[Grasshopper]

Re: World Champs trivia Q

WC Event with only repeat winners...

Men's 110mHH:
1983 - Greg Foster (USA)
1987 - Greg Foster (USA)
1991 - Greg Foster (USA)
1993 - Colin Jackson (GBR)
1995 - Allen Johnson (USA)
1997 - Allen Johnson (USA)
1999 - Colin Jackson (GBR)
2001 - Allen Johnson (USA)
2003 - Allen Johnson (USA)

It's amazing that there has been such consistensy in this event on the world championship level, especially considiring what little room for error it allows.

[Jon]

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Women's 10K:
Ingrid Kristiansen
Liz McColgan
Wang Junxia
Fernando Ribeiro
Sally Borsosio
Gete Wami
Derartu Tulu
Berhane Adere


Women's Marathon:
Grete Waitz
Rosa Mota
Wanda Panfil
Junko Asari
Maria Manuela Machado
Hiromi Suzuki
Jong Song-ok
Lidia Simon
Catherine Ndereba


Women's Walk (10k and 20k)
Irina Srakhova
Alina Ivanova
Sari Essayah
Irina Stankina
Anna-Rita Sidoti
Hongyu Liu
Olimpiada Ivanova
Yelena Nikolayeva

[Powell]

Re: World Champs trivia Q

Right answers to both parts of the question.

Try the other one now - it's not quite as easy to look up the answer to that one :-P

[huh?]

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>Right answers to both parts of the question.
Try the other one now - it's not quite as easy to look up the answer to that one :-P<

What other one?

[Jon]

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What other one?



The "Mr and Mrs X" topic.

[Powell]

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Another WCh trivia question:
Who was the oldest athlete ever to become an outdoor world outdoor champion ?

[Powell]

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And, while I'm at it, one more question:

Who was the shortest world outdoor champion ever?

[Jon]

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>Another WCh trivia question:
Who was the oldest athlete ever to become an
>outdoor world outdoor champion ?



Was it Jearl Miles-Clark? (She was just short of her 37th birthday when she won the 4x4 last year).

[Powell]

Re: World Champs trivia Q

>>Another WCh trivia question:
Who was the oldest athlete ever to become
>an
>outdoor world outdoor champion ?

Was it Jearl Miles-Clark? (She was
>just short of her 37th birthday when she won the 4x4 last year).

That's pretty old, but not the oldest ever...

[Jon]

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>And, while I'm at it, one more question:

Who was the shortest world outdoor
>champion ever?



Gaby Szabo is just over 5'1"... is she the shortest?

[Jon]

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>That's pretty old, but not the oldest ever...



Yelena Nikolayeva (37-and-a-half in Paris).

[Jon]

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>Yelena Nikolayeva
>(37-and-a-half in Paris).




Scrap that one... Irina Yatchenko was even older (almost 38) in Paris.....

[Powell]

Re: World Champs trivia Q

Yatchenko is the right answer. Szabo is not.

[Jefferson Buffalo]

Re: World Champs trivia Q

>Another WCh trivia question: Who was the oldest athlete ever to become an outdoor world outdoor champion ?<

You mean we have to exclude those who became indoor world outdoor champions?

All kidding aside, the next trivia challenge is to name those who became indoor NCAA outdoor champions. I can think of two off the top of my head, and I suspect there may be more.