When the world’s leading marathon runners bid to win Olympic gold on Sunday, they would do well to draw inspiration from one of the greatest athletes in the history of track and field. The ...

Zatopek sprints to 5,000m gold in Helsinki from Alain Mimoun (France) and Herbert Schade (Germany) with Britain's Chris Chataway falling on the final bend. He also won the 10,000m and marathon -- a ...

I’d only known the name Emil Zatopek vaguely: As the Czech Olympic distance runner, the Olympic gold medalist, one of the greats. The skinny, Cold War-era marathoner that Runners World named in 2013, ...

You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. THE ''Zatopek'' was inaugurated to promote distance running and there can have been no more ...

This weekend's Prague International Marathon will be the 29th edition of the event and, courtesy of organisers RunCzech, has become one of Europe’s fastest-growing road races. It was founded back in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. At the 1952 Olympic Games in Helsinki, 29-year-old Czech runner Emil Zátopek achieved the seemingly impossible, winning three gold ...

With his head and eyes rolling, and grimacing in apparent agony, Emil Zatopek won zero marks for artistic impression but a clutch of gold medals during the years following World War Two. The ...

There can always be a debate about who is the greatest distance runner ever. But there can never be an argument about who could have combined two track events and a marathon in a single Olympics and ...

Emil Zatopek, who has died aged 78, was one of the outstanding athletes of the 20th century. In the years following the second world war, he lifted distance running to a new plane, dominating the ...