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middle-distance

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middle-distance
adj
(Individual Sports & Recreations / Athletics (Track & Field)) Athletics relating to or denoting races of a length between the sprints and the distance events, esp the 800 metres and the 1500 metres
n middle distance
(Fine Arts & Visual Arts / Art Terms) part of a painting, esp a landscape between the foreground and far distance
Translations
middle-distance [ˌmɪdlˈdɪstəns] CPD middle-distance race Ncarrera f de medio fondo
middle-distance runner Nmediofondista mf
middle-distance [ˌmɪdlˈdɪstns] adj (runner) → di mezzofondo


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The 20-year-old middle-distance runner has put himself in contention for selection with a series of fine performances, including a fifth-place finish in the 1500m at the European Under-23 Championships in Lithuania.
SOME of Maryam Yusuf Jamal's biggest rivals in middle-distance running have been banned until April 2011 for breaching anti-doping rules, the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) announced yesterday.
Tampering claims Middle-distance runners Olga Yegorova, Svetlana Cherkasova, Yulia Fomenko, Yelena Soboleva and Tatyana Tomashova, and field athletes Gulfiya Khanafeyeva and Darya Pishchalnikova were all provisionally suspended by the IAAF ahead of the 2008 Beijing Olympics for tampering with their urine samples.
 
 
 
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