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Athletics at the 1952 Summer Olympics – Men's marathon

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and asked him, "Jim, is this pace too fast?" Peters replied, "No, it isn't fast enough." Peters later said he was joking, but Zátopek accelerated into the lead and won by more than two and a half minutes. Peters failed to finish.
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Egypt, Guatemala, Pakistan, and the Soviet Union each made their first appearance in Olympic marathons. The United States made its 12th appearance, the only nation to have competed in each Olympic marathon to that point.
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As all Olympic marathons, the competition was a single race. The marathon distance of 26 miles, 385 yards was run over a "straight out-and-back course, starting and finishing at the Olympic Stadium" and going to
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of Czechoslovakia, the nation's first Olympic marathon medal. Zátopek completed a long distance triple that has never been matched: the 5,000 metres, 10,000 metres, and marathon golds in a single Games.
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This was the 12th appearance of the event, which is one of 12 athletics events to have been held at every Summer Olympics. Returning runners from the 1948 marathon included defending champion
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of Czechoslovakia had never run a marathon before, but had won the 5000 metres and 10000 metres earlier in the Games and decided to enter the marathon.
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of Great Britain, the 1951 and 1952 Polytechnic Marathon winner who had broken the world record at the 1952 race.
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matched the nation's best result to date in the event. Great Britain's three-Games marathon medal streak ended.
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The Official Report of The Organising Committee For The Games Of The XV Olympiad Helsinki 1952
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Approximately halfway through the race, Zátopek famously pulled alongside pre-race favorite
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These were the standing world and Olympic records prior to the 1952 Summer Olympics.
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of Argentina and sixth- through eighth-place finishers
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