Career
Zátopek won all three distance events in Helsinki in 1952, having never run a marathon before — he entered on a whim and won it. He pioneered interval training, running with a grimace so pained that reporters assumed he was about to collapse.
🏃 Running · Distance
Emil Zátopek
Czech Republic · 1941–1958
Won the 5000 m, 10,000 m and marathon at one Olympics.
- 4
- Olympic golds
- 3
- Golds in 1952
- 18
- World records
- Won it
- First marathon
Honours
- Won the 5000 m, 10,000 m and marathon at the 1952 Olympics
- Only athlete ever to complete that treble
- Eighteen world records across distance events
- Won his first ever marathon at an Olympic Games
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