The Race of the Century is the name of four famous races:
- Race of the Century (Auto Racing) - 1953 French Grand Prix between Mike Hawthorn and Juan Manuel Fangio
- Race of the Century (Athletics) - 1954 British Empire Games, Mile Race between Roger Bannister and John Landy
- Race of the Century (Horse Racing) - 1986 Cox Plate race involving Waverley Star and Bonecrusher
- Race of the Century (Swimming) - 2004 Athens Olympic Games Men's 200m Freestyle Final, involving Ian Thorpe, Pieter van den Hoogenband, Grant Hackett and Michael Phelps
- Race of the Century (Film) - A 1986 film which gives a dramatic presentation of the events of the Golden Globe Race and the fate of Donald Crowhurst.
Famous quotes containing the words race of, race and/or century:
“The success of great scholars and thinkers is commonly a courtier-like success, not kingly, not manly. They make shift to live merely by conformity, practically as their fathers did, and are in no sense the progenitors of a nobler race of men.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all.”
—Bible: Hebrew Ecclesiastes, 9:11.
“Mortals grow swiftly in misfortune.”
—Hesiod (c. 8th century B.C.)