
	Where results make sense

Topic: Emil Zatopek

Related Topics

1952 Summer Olympics

Patterns of Global Terrorism

Neisse River

List of user interface markup languages

Mickey Mouse

Odin

Loki

Woolwich Arsenal railway station

Thor (god)

Crooked River State Park

Norse mythology

Thor

In the News (Sat 2 Jun 12)

EXECUTIVE POWER

Iran

ANALYSIS

Pakistan

Family compact

	EMIL ZATOPEK (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Emil Zatopek (Koprivnice, 19 september 1922-Praag, 22 november 2000), bijgenaamd de Locomotief, was een Tsjechoslowaaks lange-afstandsloper.
		Zatopek was getrouwd met speerwerpster Dana Ingrova, die in 1952 ook goud haalde op de Olympische Spelen.
		Zatopek haalde ook wereldrecords op de (minder officiële) afstanden van 20 en 30 kilometer.
	www.thumpershollow.com /encyclopedia/E/Emil_Zatopek (354 words)

	Emil Zátopek - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Emil Zátopek listen [▶] (September 19, 1922 - November 22, 2000) was a Czech athlete and Olympic gold medalist in long distance running.
		However, he supported the party's democratic wing, and after the Prague Spring, he was removed from all important positions and forced to work in a uranium mine as punishment.
		Emil Zátopek died in Prague, after a long-lasting illness at the age of 78.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Emil_Z%C3%A1topek (544 words)

	The Running Network -- National News -- Article
		Zatopek, who became a quadruple Olympic champion between 1948 and 1952, was suffering with a mystery virus which was complicated by pneumonia and a weakened heart rate.
		Zatopek's victory in the marathon was particularly memorable after he had inquired whether the pace was fast enough for his rivals before racing past the finishing line to finish 700m ahead of the stunned chasing pack.
		Emil Zatopek lived and died as an Olympian, he is a role model for all who aspire to greatness in our sport and in life...
	www.runningnetwork.com /news/30141.html (1021 words)

	Emil Zatopek
		Emil Zatopek est considéré comme un des plus grands athlètes de la seconde moitié du 20ème siècle.
		Emil Zatopek est né le 19 septembre 1922 à Koprivnice, en Tchécoslovaquie.
		Zatopek disait à propos de son faciès en course "je n'avais pas assez de talent pour courir et sourire en même temps".
	www.volodalen.com /32historique/zatopek.htm (1623 words)

	Emil Zatopek Biography / Biography of Emil Zatopek Biography Biography
		Emil Zatopek (born 1922), a Czech runner, was the first and only man ever to win the "triple crown" of the 5,000- and 10,000-meter races as well as the marathon in a single Olympics.
		Emil Zatopek was born on September 19, 1922, in Koprinivince, Czechoslovakia.
		Zatopek had never competed before and did not want to run in the race, but was forced to by his employer.
	www.bookrags.com /biography-emil-zatopek/index.html (249 words)

	Olympic great Emil Zatopek dies at 78 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Zatopek, a four-time Olympic champion and one of the 20th century's greatest distance runners, died at age 78, and his country mourned Wednesday for what he did on and off the track.
		Zatopek, who ran with hunched shoulders and a grimacing expression that became his trademark, was the first runner to finish 10,000 meters in under 29 minutes.
		Zatopek's unorthodox training methods were adopted by hundreds of athletes in the last five decades.
	seattlepi.nwsource.com /olympics/obit23.shtml (570 words)

	Olympic Legends: Emil Zatopek
		Zatopek was also a disciple of interval training, systematically lengthening the distances and shortening the time between each training run.
		Zatopek planned to repeat his marathon triumph in Melbourne four years later but was forced to undergo a hernia operation.
		Zatopek was expelled from the army and forced to work for six years in a uranium mine before he was eventually rehabilitated.
	www.rediff.com /sports/2004/aug/09oly-ath1.htm (463 words)

	GreatRun
		MUCH was written recently about the superb achievements of Emil Zatopek on the track, but he should also be remembered for his revolutionary approach to running - something runners of all standards can learn from.
		In the 1950s Zatopek was virtually unbeatable, combining huge workloads with intensive speed sessions to break world records and win gold medals.
		Emil Zatopek reminded all athletes that the body adapts to hard work and grows stronger.
	www.greatrun.org /runners_services/training/features/emil-zatopek.asp (566 words)

	BBC SPORT \| ATHLETICS \| Czech legend Zatopek dies
		Zatopek was hospitalised after a stroke on 30 October and had been in a critical condition since.
		"Emil Zatopek was one of my youthful heroes and still today his story stands as an example for all those who start a career in sport," he explained.
		Zatopek's victory in the 26-mile event was particularly memorable.
	news.bbc.co.uk /sport1/hi/athletics/1035152.stm (410 words)

	BBC SPORT \| ATHLETICS \| Zatopek laid to rest
		Zatopek's coffin was draped with the Czech flag, with the Olympic flag hanging overhead.
		His widow Dana Zatopkova, herself an Olympic gold medallist in Helsinki in the javelin, requested that Zatopek not be given a state funeral.
		Emil Zatopek was a legend, and a legend never dies."
	news.bbc.co.uk /sport1/hi/athletics/1057821.stm (280 words)

	Emil Zatopek - Mar '01 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		This is vintage Emil Zatopek—the most beloved Czech athlete ever—who died in a Prague hospital on November 22 at the age of 78 after a long struggle with brain hemorrhages and strokes.
		Zatopek is most revered for his brave stance in 1968 after the reforms known as Prague Spring.
		Zatopek, who spoke six languages, was coerced into working in a uranium mine for six laborious years.
	www.runningtimes.com /issues/01mar/zatopek.htm (1276 words)

	Emil Zapotek's Training Trials (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Emil Zatopek was simply the most remarkable athlete in the history of long distance running.
		Zatopek's method was the interval system, though he apparently knew nothing of Gerschler and Reindell when he adopted it.
		Red Smith wrote that spectators "still wake up screaming in the dark when Emil the Terrible goes writhing through their dreams, clawing at his abdomen in horrible extremities of pain." Few noticed that his running form was perfect from the waist down.
	www.angelfire.com /rock/running/essays/evolution5.html (1024 words)

	Runner's World Columns
		To me, Zatopek is the finest runner of the past 50 years.
		Zatopek didn't talk politics, but he was officially a "nobody" in Czechoslovakia.
		Zatopek excused himself and walked toward the plane that would take him to Prague, back to his simple life as a "nobody" whose name will forever live in Olympic history.
	www.joehenderson.com /runnersworld/287.html (724 words)

	Notas - Emil Zatopek (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		De acuerdo a la información que recuerdo de ese momento Emil Zatopek ¨se empezó a ganar todo¨.
		Zatopek gana la medalla de oro en los 10 mil metros en los primeros Juegos Olímpicos después de la II Guerra Mundial, en Londres.
		Los registros de Zatopek ya han sido superados holgadamente, pero es indudable que en su momento dio brillo no solamente al atletismo sino también a todo el deporte.
	www.delatletismo.com.ar /notas/zatopek/index.htm (668 words)

	Daily Telegraph (London, England): Obituary of Emil Zatopek; The greatest distance runner of the 20th century, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Obituary of Emil Zatopek; The greatest distance runner of the 20th century, astonishing crowds with a triple victory in the Helsinki Olympics.(News)(Obituary)
		EMIL ZATOPEK, the Czech athlete who has died aged 78, was perhaps the greatest long-distance runner of the 20th century.
		Zatopek was virtually unknown outside central Europe when he first laid claim to the world's attention at the London Olympics of 1948.
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:67279363&refid=holomed_1 (235 words)

	untitled
		Zatopek thought over this reply in silence as they ran along for a while.
		American team, hoisted Zatopek to their shoulders and carried him on a lap of honour.
		But it is not these statistics that demonstrate the value of Zatopek, but rather his ability to innovate.
	www.fitnesssports.com /mastersnews.html (1308 words)

	MSN Encarta - Multimedia - Emil Zátopek
		Czech distance-runner Emil Zátopek, right, won the 5000-meter race at the 1952 Olympic Games Helsinki, Finland.
		Zátopek also won the 10,000-meter race and the marathon in Helsinki, becoming the first runner to win all three events in a single year.
		He set 18 world records in track and field during his career.
	encarta.msn.com /media_461520613/Emil_Z%C3%A1topek.html (52 words)

	A Passion for Running » emil zatopek
		Emil Zatopek is the guy you see in my new header so I thought I’d take a moment to explain why he’s displayed there so prominently.
		Zatopek is widely regarded as the granddaddy of interval training.
		Emil Zatopek on Interval Training, “Everyone said, ‘Emil, you are a fool!’ But when I first won the European Championship, they said: ‘Emil, you are a genius!’”
	www.completerunning.com /running-blog-mark/index.php/archives/2005/02/10/emil-zatopek (834 words)

	Fallece el legendario Emil Zatopek
		El legendario atleta checo, cuatro veces campeón olímpico Emil Zatopek falleció en la madrugada del martes a la edad de 78 años en el Hospital de Vinohrady, donde estaba internado a causa de un reciente derrame cerebral, informaron fuentes de ese hospital.
		Zatopek fue hospitalizado el pasado 30 de octubre después de un repentino empeoramiento de su salud, causado por el derrame cerebral, pero se estado no fue posible estabilizarlo y fue considerado critico, dijo el director de la Clínica de Neurología de ese hospital, Jaroslav Elias.
		Emil Zatopek conquistó tres medallas de oro en los Juegos Olímpicos de Helsinki en 1952, en los 5.000, 10.000 metros y en el maratón.
	www.marca.com /atletismo/zatopek/index.html (172 words)

	Body and Mind (121300) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Zatopek won gold in the 5K, 10K and the marathon (a distance he had not previously raced) all within eight days and set records in all three.
		One stated that Zatopek "seemed on the verge of strangulation; his hatchet face was crimson; his tongue rolled out." Another reporter observed that he looked like a man who had just been shot through the heart.
		Zatopek was an approachable and generous man. Late one night, just before an important international race, a reporter knocked on his hotel door desiring an interview.
	newtimes.rway.com /2000/121300/bodymind.shtml (710 words)

	Kalenderblatt - 20.08.2003 - Emil Zatopek erklettert einen Sowjetischen Panzer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Laufen wollte der junge Emil eigentlich nie, das war ihm viel zu anstrengend, und als ihn sein Chef in der großen tschechischen Schuhfabrik Bata zwingen wollte an einer Crosslauf-Veranstaltung teilzunehmen, regte sich sofort sein Widerstandsgeist: Emil meldete sich erst einmal krank.
		Denn, wenn Emil Zatopek nun schon einmal laufen musste, dann wollte er auch gewinnen.
		Und wer weiß, was mit Emil Zatopek geschehen wäre, wenn ihm seine Dana nicht kurz zuvor das Gewehr versteckt hätte.
	www.br-online.de /wissen-bildung/kalenderblatt/2003/08/kb20030820.html (534 words)

	INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC COMMITTEE - ATHLETES
		Emil Zátopek began his illustrious Olympic career by running the 10,000m at the 1948 London Games.
		Nonetheless, he easily wore down all of the other runners and won by 2½ minutes as the appreciative Finnish spectators chanted his name.
		Emil Zátopek is the only runner to win the 5,000m, the 10,000m and the marathon at the same Olympics.
	www.olympic.org /uk/athletes/heroes/bio_uk.asp?PAR_I_ID=4731 (235 words)

	Running Past - Profiles - Emil Zatopek
		One of the greatest runners of the 20th Century, Emil Zátopek achieved legendary status when he won the 5,000, the 10,000 and the marathon at the 1952 Olympic Games in Helsinki.
		Emil Zátopek was born in Koprivnice, Czechoslovakia on September 19, 1922, the 6th child of a modest family.
		In 1998 Emil was awarded the Order of the White Lion, a national honor presented to him by Czech President Vaclav Havel.
	www.runningpast.com /emil_zatopek.htm (1331 words)

	SI Flashback
		Emil Zátopek ran as if enduring the torture of the damned, his arms swinging wildly across his twisted torso as if warding off blows, his jagged features contorted in agony, his eyes searching the heavens as if for merciful intervention.
		Emil had decided to run his first marathon in these Games.
		But when freedom was finally achieved by his countrymen in '90, his reputation was fully restored, and he remains a national hero to this day.
	sportsillustrated.cnn.com /events/1996/olympics/daily/aug4/flashback.html (688 words)

	Running Past - Profiles - Emil Zatopek
		Out of the field of 100 Emil finished second and he began to take a serious interest in the sport.
		Dana and Emil shared the same birthday, September 19th, and they married on that day in 1948.
		In 1955 Zatopek set the last two of his world records, for 15 miles and 25,000 meters.
	runningpast.com /emil_zatopek.htm (1331 words)

	International Games News November 2000 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Emil Zatopek, one of the greatest post-world war II Olympians, died November 22 in Prague at the age of 78.
		Zatopek was a four-time Olympic champion winning the 10,000 meters in 1948 in London and the 5,000 and 10,000 and marathon in 1952 at Helsinki.
		Zatopek's successful career in the Czechoslovakian military was cut off when he criticized the Soviets military invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968.
	www.internationalgames.net /november2000.html (1919 words)

	California Track and Running News -- Regional News Article
		Emil Zatopek (TCH): The "bouncing Czech" gained an Olympic treble in 1952 which is still spoken of in awe: the 10,000m, 5000m and - in his debut - the marathon.
		Emil Zatopek nasce in Moravia il 19 Settembre del 1922 in una famiglia umile dove il padre faceva come mestiere il calzolaio.
		Emil Zatopek regains the lead in the 5,000-meter event at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Hensinki.
	www.caltrack.com /news/conning111902.html (4435 words)

	Running Commentary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Running Commentary for May carries a column about Emil Zatopek and my winning an award named for him.
		Zatopek was a great inspiration to us all, not only as an athlete but more importantly as a person.
		Clarke thought he might be helping to smuggle something, but when he opened it on the plane he found one of Zatopek's Olympic gold medals with a note saying that he, Clarke, deserved it.
	www.joehenderson.com /email/243.html (187 words)

	Sports Illustrated: A Winner at the Finish: Emil Zatopek had a storied distance-running career, but his life wasn't all ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Emil Zatopek died last week in Prague of complications from a stroke.
		The Nazis had taken control of his country in 1939, tanks in the streets, jackboots marching in the dead of night, the routines of normal life altered.
		Emil Zatopek became a champion mostly because he was bored and hungry.
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:68545985&refid=holomed_1 (211 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)