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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
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 grueling of all human contests twice. Born into bitter poverty in rural Ethiopia in 1932, at sixteen Bikila joined the Imperial Guard o...  more »
ISBN-13: 9781846686535
ISBN-10: 1846686539
Publication Date: 7/3/2008
Pages: 320
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