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Barefoot Runner: The Life of Marathon Champion Abebe Bikila
Barefoot Runner The Life of Marathon Champion Abebe Bikila
Author: Paul Rambali
"It's an astonishing sight, I must say: the Ethiopian, Abebe Bikila, is racing barefoot."-BBC Radio Olympic commentary, Rome, 1960 Abebe Bikila was the first black African to win an Olympic gold medal. He won the marathon running barefoot in Rome in 1960 and won again wearing shoes in Tokyo in 1964, becoming the first person to win the most ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9781852429041
ISBN-10: 1852429046
Publication Date: 6/1/2007
Pages: 320
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Publisher: Serpent's Tail
Book Type: Paperback
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