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	Albin Stenroos -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Albin Stenroos got his first fame by winning the 10 000 (The 13th letter of the Roman alphabet) m at Finnish nationals in 1910.
		In 1915, Stenroos ran his first (The best record in the whole world) world record in 30 (A metric unit of length equal to 1000 meters (or 0.621371 miles)) km (1:48:06.2), which he overrun in 1924.
		Stenroos got a second place at the 1926 (additional info and facts about Boston Marathon) Boston Marathon, but decided to retire from athletics after the failure at the next Boston Marathon.
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	1924 Summer Olympics
		Ville Ritola won the 10000 m and the 3000 m steeplechase, while finishing second to Nurmi on the 5000 m and cross country.
		Albin Stenroos[?] won the marathon, while the Finnish team (with Nurmi and Ritola) was victorious in the 3000 m and cross country team events.
		British runners Harold Abrahams and Eric Liddell[?] won medals in the 100 and 400 m, respectively.
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		In absence of Hannes Kolehmainen, Stenroos won the Finnish National Free mature xxx video Championships in 5000 m and Mature fuck 10 000 m from 1912 to 1916.
		In 1915, Stenroos ran his first world record in 30 km (1:48.06,2), which he overrun Mature nude man in 1924.
		Stenroos got a second Mature old young place at the 1926 Boston Marathon, but decided to retire from athletics after the failure at the next Boston Marathon.
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		The Games of the V Olympiad were held in 1912 in Stockholm, Sweden.
		The Games of the VII Olympiad were held in 1920 in Antwerp, Belgium.
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	Johnny Miles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Miles was subsequently vilified when he returned to defend his title in 1927 and dropped out, suffering from severe blisters caused by ultra thin soles in a pair of sneakers his father had pared down with a knife to make them lighter on his feet.
		Johnny tailed Stenroos all the way to the Newton Hills while crowds, estimated at a record half million, lined the marathon route to cheer the runners through.
		Stenroos thought a mistake must have been made for Miles to have run so fast a time and the course was remeasured by the BAA.
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	Albin Stenroos - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		He also won the cross country title from 1915 to 1917.
		He also finished sixth on cross country run and aided his team to a second place.
		This page was last modified 12:29, 9 August 2005.
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	Johnny Miles -- Boston Marathon winner in 1926
		Wearing a red maple leaf on his homemade jersey and a pair of 98-cent sneakers and fortified by a sandwich of cold steak prepared by his mother, he arrived for the start in Hopkinton, Mass., so awed by the huge crowd that his knees were knocking.
		The field of 112 included the two most accomplished distance runners of the time, Albin Stenroos of Finland, who had won the Olympic marathon at Paris in 1924, and DeMar, who had won the Boston Marathon four times.
		Miles idolized Stenroos and had carried a newspaper photo of him in his wallet.
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	Boston Athletic Association
		But with a pair of 98-cent sneakers, a homemade jersey emblazoned with a red maple leaf, and a crumpled photo of his idol, Finnish racer Albin Stenroos - marathon winner at the 1924 Paris Olympics and the man he sought to track during the race - Mr.
		As he waited for the start of the race in Hopkinton, he studied once more the tattered picture of his hero: Stenroos.
		''When we came to Heartbreak Hill,'' he recalled, ''I looked at Stenroos and his eyes were sunken, his face was kind of pulled in, and I figured this was the time to pass him.
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	Boston Athletic Association
		A 20-year old delivery boy, John C. Miles of Sydney Mines, Nova Scotia, upset Olympic champion Albin Stenroos of Finland and course record holder DeMar.
		Miles ran in dogged pursuit of the Olympic champion, finally catching up with the gold medalist at Boston College, where Stenroos was slowed by a side stitch.
		He slowed in the final miles, thereby losing his bid for a course record, but easily finished ahead of runner-up Willie Kyronen.
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	Olympic History
		For the first time in Olympic history the race was run in cool conditions and Kolehmainen's victory heralded the start of a dominance in distance running by Finnish athletes.
		This marathon was won by another Finn, Albin Stenroos.
		He had picked up a bronze medal in the 10,000m in Stockholm but between 1909 and 1924 had never run a marathon.
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		In Marathon, Colonel Papadiamantopoulos gave the starting signal for the small field of runners, consisting of thirteen Greeks and four foreigners.
		The early leader of the race, which led over dusty roads along which a lot of Greeks had gathered to watch, was the Frenchman Albin Lermusiaux, who had earlier placed third in the final of the 1500 m.
		In the town of Pikermi, Louis made a stop in a local inn to drink a glass of wine.
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	Course de fond
		En 1926, le père d'un jeune mineur de 21 ans de Sydney, en Nouvelle-Écosse, lui promet de payer son voyage au marathon de Boston s'il gagne la course de Halifax.
		John C. Miles remporte la course de Halifax et, à Boston, Miles court contre le champion olympique Albin Stenroos et contre le Bostonien Clarence DeMar, favori de la course.
		C'est dans un temps de 2 h 25 min 40 s que Miles remporte le marathon de Boston de 1926 et battant le record précédant par quatre minutes.
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	TopFoto Gallery - Olympic Games - 1924 Paris
		France, Paris Olympics, 1924: Stenroos in the marathon.
		France, Paris Olympics, 1924: Albin Oskar Stenroos (Finland) on his way to victory in the marathon.
		Hannes Kolehmainen, Albin Stenroos (winner) and Lauri Halonen.
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	Long-Distance Running
		In 1926, responding to his father's bribe of a trip to compete in the Boston Marathon, a 21-year-old miner from Sydney, NS, John C. Miles, ran the Modified and finished first.
		In Boston, Miles battled reigning Olympic champion Albin Stenroos and the race favourite, Bostonian Clarence DeMar, to win the 1926 Marathon in a time of 2:25:40, 4 minutes faster than the previous course record.
		In 1987 North America's oldest race, the Hamilton "Around-the-Bay" race, had been run 77 times since its inception in 1894.
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	Runner's Web Special Report
		He ran against the world's best and won -- demolishing world and Boston record marks.
		He was in the shower when Olympic and world champion Albin Stenroos of Finland finished second -- four minutes behind him.
		The unknown grocery delivery boy, down from his horse-drawn wagon, destroyed Stenroos' 1924 Olympic and world record of 2:41:22 by almost 16 minutes.
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	Boston.com / Sports / Boston Marathon / 2002 Stories
		The Haunted Mile is the spooky place where contenders go to die.
		It's where Jimmy Henigan's legs gave out in 1922, where Olympic champion Albin Stenroos cracked in 1926, where Mamo Wolde began walking in 1963, where John "The Elder" Kelley saw half a dozen races turn against him.
		Jerry Nason, the longtime Globe sports editor and race chronicler who gave Heartbreak Hill its name, called the adjacent Evergreen Cemetery the "graveyard of champions." "I call it the Cemetery of Lost Hope," says Bill Squires, who coached four-time victor Bill Rodgers.
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	The Golden Age of Sports: A Roaring Replay of the 1920's
		In some of the other events Paavo Nurmi of Finland won another gold this time in the 1500 with a time of 3:53.6.
		In the Marathon it was another Fin Albin Stenroos who won the race in the time of 2:41:22.6.
		In the 1920's one of the most famous college football teams of today was really starting to come to the national stage.
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	Blog of Death: Johnny Miles
		Johnny Miles was a 20-year-old grocery delivery boy from Nova Scotia when he won the 1926 Boston Marathon, defeating the reigning Olympic champion, Albin Stenroos and Boston Marathon favorite, Clarence DeMar.
		The next year, Miles dropped out of the race after he suffered from severe blisters caused by the ultra thin soles his father had created in order to make him run faster.
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	Boston: The Canadian Story - By David Blaikie
		Tom Hicks, the 1904 Olympic champion, tried tour times.
		Albin Stenroos, the 1924 Olympic winner, was defeated by Johnny Miles, an unknown Nova Scotia delivery boy.
		Abebe Bikila, the great Ethiopian, twice Olympic champion in the 1960s, ran fifth at Boston.
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	California Track and Running News -- Regional News Article
		Elaintarha remains the home track of the capital's most famous athletics club Helsingin Kisa-Veikot which was founded 95 years ago.
		Many world class athletes have graced the club's entirely white strip including - albeit for some, not for the entirety of their careers - Olympic champions such as Hannes Kolehmainen, Armas Taipale, Albin Stenroos, Elmer Niklander, Toivo Loukola, Volmari Iso-Hollo and Matti Jarvinen.
		The most recent club member to strike Olympic gold was javelin thrower Arto Harkonen in 1984.
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		For myself, I cannot wait to finally run the Boston Marathon and pretend that I’m Johnny catching up to a glassy-eyed Albin Stenroos.
		Favourite Quote: "One of the reporters who sought out Johnny out was Bill Cunningham of the Boston Post.
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