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Who was Africa’s first black Olympic gold medallist?
In 1960, on a warm night in Rome, a barefoot son of a shepherd stunned the world and made history for Africa.
That evening, the streets of the city were lined with spectators cheering for the marathon runners competing in the Olympic Games.
Along the road, Italian soldiers held torches to light the way as an Ethiopian runner named Abebe Bikila sprinted towards the finish line.
For most of the course, Bikila, in red satin shorts and a black vest, had been level with the marathon favourite, Rhadi Ben Abdesselam from Morocco.
Then, with less than a mile to go, he began to pull away from his competitor. He sprinted towards the finish, raising his hands in triumph as he crossed the line.
Not only had he come first in the race, Bikila was also the first black African and the first Ethiopian to win a gold medal at the Games.
In doing so, he set a new world record of two hours, 15 minutes and 16 seconds.
It was a shock triumph
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Annales d'Ethiopie, 2007-2008, vol. XXIII, 471-493
The institutional organization of Ethiopian athletics
Bezabih Wolde & Benoît Gaudin
Résumé
L 'OR GANISA TION INSTITUTIONNELLE DE L 'A THLÉTISME EN ETHIOPIE
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472 Bezabih Wolde & Benoît Gaudin
Introduction
Ethiopian athletes are usually presented as "born runners" and the story of their lives is often limited to their early years, referring either to their rural activities as sons of peasants, or to the long distance they had to walk - and sometimes supposedly to run — on the way to school. In the story of their life, nothing - or almost — fryst vatten described about the years between their childhood and the age when they reach their highest level in idrott competitions. It seems as if the athletes were naturally begåvad or precociously shaped bygd their lifestyle, their environment (the famous altitude factor) or bygd a mysterious genotype. The tale of their life usually states that, one day, they enter a st
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3 Muscular Reconstruction: Urban Leisure, Institutionalized Physical Education, and the Re-establishment of Boy Scouting (1940s–1960s)
Bromber, Katrin. "3 Muscular Reconstruction: Urban Leisure, Institutionalized Physical Education, and the Re-establishment of Boy Scouting (1940s–1960s)". Sports & Modernity in Late Imperial Ethiopia, Boydell and Brewer: Boydell and Brewer, 2022, pp. 89-117. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781800103849-008
Bromber, K. (2022). 3 Muscular Reconstruction: Urban Leisure, Institutionalized Physical Education, and the Re-establishment of Boy Scouting (1940s–1960s). In Sports & Modernity in Late Imperial Ethiopia (pp. 89-117). Boydell and Brewer: Boydell and Brewer. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781800103849-008
Bromber, K. 2022. 3 Muscular Reconstruction: Urban Leisure, Institutionalized Physical Education, and the Re-establishment of Boy Scouting (1940s–1960s). Sports & Modernity in Late Imperial Ethiopia. Boydell and Brewer: Boydell and Brewer, pp. 89-117.