Torches Olympiques

Le musée de la course de Marathon vise à inspirer les gens avec les valeurs et les idéaux de l’esprit Olympique et présente au public le symbole le plus caractéristique du sport: les torches olympiques! Le symbole olympique le plus connu qui porte le message de la paix dans le monde entier ! Les objets…

Stefano Baldini

Stefano Baldini (né le 25 mai 1971 à Castelnovo di Sotto, Émilie-Romagne, Italie) est un coureur italien à la retraite, spécialiste du marathon, champion olympique à Athènes en 2004 et double champion d’Europe (1998 et 2006). Baldini a également été champion du monde de semi-marathon, remportant le titre à Palma de Majorque en 1996. Lors…

Vaderlei De Lima

Vanderlei Cordeiro de Lima (born 4 July 1969) is a Brazilian retired long-distance runner. He was born in Cruzeiro do Oeste, Paraná. While leading the marathon after 35 km (22 mi) at the 2004 Summer Olympics, he was attacked on the course by Irish former priest Cornelius « Neil » Horan. Following the incident, Lima fell from…

Naoko Takahashi

Naoko Takahashi (高橋 尚子, Takahashi Naoko, born May 6, 1972) is a retired Japanese long-distance runner and Olympic gold medal-winning marathoner. She won the gold medal in the marathon at the 2000 Sydney Olympics, and at the 2001 Berlin Marathon she became the first woman to complete a marathon in under 2 hours and 20…

Yuko Arimori

Yuko Arimori (有森 裕子, Arimori Yūko, born December 17, 1966, in Okayama) is a Japanese professional marathon runner and a Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA). Arimori competed for Japan in the 1992 Summer Olympics held in Barcelona, Spain in the marathon where she won the silver medal with a time of…

Rosa Mota

Rosa Maria Correia dos Santos Mota, GCIH, GCM (Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈʁɔzɐ ˈmɔtɐ]; born 29 June 1958) is a Portuguese former marathon runner, one of her country’s foremost athletes, being the first sportswoman from Portugal to win Olympic gold. Mota was the first woman to win multiple Olympic marathon medals as well as being the only…

Ron Hill

Ronald Hill MBE (25 September 1938 – 23 May 2021) was a British runner and clothing entrepreneur. He was the second man to break 2:10 in the marathon; he set world records at four other distances, and laid claim to the marathon world record. He ran two Olympic Marathons (Tokyo 1964 and Munich 1972), and…