The 10th IAAF World Half Marathon Championships was held on October 7, 2001 in the city of Bristol, UK, and was run immediately before that year's Bristol Half Marathon. A total of 200 athletes, 125 men and 75 women, from 52 countries took part.
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“‘Where is the world?’ cries Young, at eighty. ‘Where
The world in which a man was born?’”
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“The mountains look on Marathon—
And Marathon looks on the sea;
And musing there an hour alone,
I dreamed that Greece might still be free;
For standing on the Persians’ grave,
I could not deem myself a slave.”
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