Long Distance Runner

This page lists 2,213 biographies of long distance runners, covering lives from 1795 to 2008. Featuring Ain-Elmar Kaasik, Alberto Salazar and Brendan Foster. Each profile gives life dates, nationality, education, positions held and a sourced, attributed account of the person's life.

People in this occupation

Iván Zarco

b. 1984

Nam Sung-yong

1912 – 2001

Martin Fagan

b. 1983

Bob Holt

b. 1944

Carole Bradford

b. 1961

Lasse Orimus

b. 1950

Iven Moise

b. 1990

Eino Rastas

1894 – 1965

Les Perry

1923 – 2005

Chrisantus Nyakwayo

b. 1944

Louis Scott

1889 – 1960

Yury Zakharov

b. 1933

Josphat Bett Kipkoech

b. 1990

Anatolijus Baranovas

b. 1940

Fritz Rüegsegger

b. 1950

Ed Mendoza

b. 1952

Edwin Kiptoo

b. 1993

Zeineba Yimer

b. 1998

Ross Haywood

b. 1947

Leah Falland

b. 1992

Valentín González

1910 – 1943

Kana Kobayashi

b. 2001

Wesley Kiptoo

b. 1999

Abraham Chebii

b. 1979

Brahim Lahlafi

b. 1968

Yihunlish Delelecha

b. 1980

Sara Carnicelli

b. 1994

Eloise Wellings

b. 1982

Terumi Asoshina

b. 1982

Laura Shaughnessy

b. 1990

Suguru Osako

b. 1991

Marcel Vandewattyne

1924 – 2009

Jack Potts

1906 – 1987

Sven Thuresson

1900 – 1982

Aurèle Vandendriessche

1932 – 2023

Paul Castanet

1880 – 1967

Janet Kisa

b. 1992

Stan Tomlin

1905 – 1969

Maurilio Castillo

b. 1962

Dick Hart

1927 – 1991

Josphat Kiprono Menjo

b. 1979

Tommy Ekblom

b. 1959

Andrew Letherby

b. 1973

Roger Rochard

1913 – 1993

David Moorcroft

b. 1953

Yves Sikubwabo

b. 1993

Bob Vagg

b. 1940

Rosario Murcia-Gangloff

b. 1964

Bill Scott

b. 1952

Matt Centrowitz

b. 1955

Maung Maung Nge

b. 1978

Valter Nyström

1915 – 2011

Michael Bullivant

b. 1934

Alemu Megertu

b. 1997

Yevgeniy Rybakov

b. 1985

Simon Cheprot

b. 1993

Gyula Kellner

1871 – 1940

Micah Kogo

b. 1986

Helge Perälä

1915 – 2010

Mike Tate

b. 1995

Brett Gotcher

b. 1984

Nélie Clément

b. 2003

John Tuttle

b. 1958

Gösta Bergström

1903 – 1988

Luciano Di Pardo

b. 1975

Sergiu Ciobanu

b. 1983

Emil Voigt

1883 – 1973

James Kwalia

b. 1984

Joe Keeper

1886 – 1971

Wayne Yetman

b. 1946

Linet Masai

b. 1989

Aarne Lindholm

1889 – 1972

Piotr Gładki

1972 – 2005

Antti Loikkanen

b. 1955

John Yuda Msuri

b. 1979

Fritz Skullerud

1885 – 1969

Leonard Chemutai

b. 2003

Hailemaryam Kiros

b. 1997

Eva Cherono

b. 1996

Ilmari Salminen

1902 – 1986

Augustino Paulo Sulle

b. 1997

Amisoli Patasoni

1901 – 1962

Tyler C. Andrews

b. 1990

Isabelle Ledroit

b. 1966

Darya Mykhaylova

b. 1989

Markku Salminen

1946 – 2004

Gaylord Silly

b. 1986

Tom Laris

b. 1940

Marina Bastos

b. 1971

Mercy Cherono

b. 1991

Viktor Kudinskiy

1943 – 2005

Teodor Koskenniemi

1887 – 1965

Dương Văn Thái

b. 1992

Gunnar Höckert

1910 – 1940

Pakiso Mthembu

b. 1999

Klara Kashapova

b. 1970

Solomon Kirwa Yego

b. 1987

Emma Montiel

b. 1975

Emilia Brangefält

2002 – 2023

Jacques Vernier

1923 – 2015