Which Olympic distance runner was held at the The Ōfuna Camp ?
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Ōfuna prisoner-of-war camp The Ōfuna Camp (大船収容所 , Ōbune shūyōsho ) was an Imperial Japanese Navy installation located in Kamakura, outside Yokohama, Japan during World War II, where high-value enlisted and officers, particularly pilots and submariner prisoners of war were interrogated and incarcerated by Japanese naval intelligence Richard O'Kane, Louis Zamperini and Gregory Boyington were among the prisoners held at Ōfuna.
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Louis Zamperini Louis Silvie "Louie" Zamperini (January 26, 1917 – July 2, 2014) was a US prisoner of war survivor in World War II, a Christian evangelist and an Olympic distance runner.
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José Luis Molina José Luis Molina (born 8 May 1965) is a Costa Rican long-distance runner. He competed in the men's marathon at the 1996 Summer Olympics and the 2000 Summer Olympics.
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Frank Shorter Frank Charles Shorter (born October 31, 1947) is an American former long-distance runner who won the gold medal in the marathon at the 1972 Summer Olympics and the silver medal at the 1976 Summer Olympics. His Olympic success, along with the achievements of other American runners, is credited with igniting the running boom in the United States during the 1970s.
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Pavel Loskutov Pavel Loskutov (born 2 December 1969 in Valka, Latvia) is a former Estonian long-distance runner who specialized in marathon races. He has competed in the Olympic marathon race four times consecutively, from the 1996 Atlanta Olympics to the 2008 Beijing Games.
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Ioannis Lavrentis Ioannis Lavrentis (Greek: Ιωάννης Λαυρέντης ) was a Greek athlete who was likely the second runner to win a marathon. On March 12, 1896, Lavrentis was first in a field of 38 runners attempting to qualify for the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece (3:11:27).
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Willy Schärer Wilhelm "Willy" Schärer (September 20, 1903 – November 26, 1982) was a Swiss middle-distance runner who won a silver medal over 1500 m at the Olympic Games in Paris in 1924. The race was won by Paavo Nurmi.
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María Peralta María de los Ángeles Peralta (born 30 November 1977) is an Argentine middle and long distance runner. She competed in the marathon at the 2012 Summer Olympics, placing 82nd with a time of 2:40:50. She did not finish her 2016 Olympic marathon.
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Bineshwar Prasad Bineshwar Prasad (born 18 July 1963) is a Fijian long-distance runner. He competed in the men's marathon at the 1988 Summer Olympics and the 1992 Summer Olympics.
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Eglė Balčiūnaitė Eglė Balčiūnaitė (born October 31, 1988 in Šiauliai) is a track and field middle distance runner who competes internationally for Lithuania.
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Johannes Maremane Johannes Maremane (born 27 September 1965) is a South African long-distance runner. He competed in the men's marathon at the 2000 Summer Olympics.
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Harald Norpoth Harald Norpoth (born 22 August 1942) is a West German former middle and long distance runner. He won the silver medal over 5000 m at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo as a member of the United Team of Germany. He had already competed in the 1962 European Athletics Championships, where he had fallen and dropped out of the 1500 m final. His high quality as both a 1500 m and a 5000 m runner was proved in the 1966 European Athletics Championships, where he won the bronze medal at 1500 m and the silver medal at 5000 m.
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Reuben Appleton Reuben Appleton is an Antiguan Olympic middle-distance runner. He represented his country in the men's 1500 meters at the 1996 Summer Olympics. His time was a 4:02.99.
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Jorge Castelblanco Jorge Castelblanco (born 23 September 1987) is a long-distance runner from Panama. At the 2016 Olympics he became the first Panamanian athlete to run the Olympic marathon.
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Stsiapan Rahautsou Stsiapan Valeryevich Rahautsou (Belarusian: Сцяпан Валер'евіч Рагаўцоў ; born 29 May 1986) is a Belarusian long-distance runner. At the 2012 Summer Olympics, he competed in the Men's marathon, finishing in 64th place.
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David Nepomuceno David Nepomuceno (May 9, 1900 – September 27, 1939) was the first Filipino to compete in the Olympics. He was a runner and the sole representative of the Philippines at the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris, France. In 1925, Nepomuceno ran the 100 meters in only two-tenths of a second short of the then-world record.
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Pavel Kantorek Pavel Kantorek (born 8 February 1930 in Prague) is a retired long-distance runner from Czechoslovakia. He represented Czechoslovakia in three consecutive Summer Olympics in the men's marathon, starting in 1956. Kantorek is a three-time winner of the Košice Peace Marathon.
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Rodrigo Gavela Rodrigo Gavela Rodríguez (born January 5, 1966 in Fabero del Bierzo, León) is a former long-distance athlete from Spain, who finished in 18th position (2:16.23) in the men's marathon at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain.
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James Kwambai James Kipsang Kwambai (born February 28, 1983) is a runner from Kenya, who specialises in marathons. He is a former Kenyan record holder in the event, with his personal best of 2:04:27 hours in 2009. At the time this made him the second fastest runner ever, behind Haile Gebrselassie.
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Pascaline Wangui Pascaline Wangui (born November 30, 1960 in Nakuru, Rift Valley) is a retired female long-distance runner from Kenya, who twice (1988 and 1992) competed for her native country at the Summer Olympics in the women's marathon. She set her personal best (2:37:23) in the classic distance on January 20, 1991, finishing fourth in the Houston Marathon.
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Samuel Wanjiru Samuel Kamau Wanjiru (10 November 1986 – 15 May 2011) was a Kenyan athlete who specialised in long-distance running. He set the current 10000m World Junior Record (improvement by 22 seconds) in 2005 and broke the world record in the half marathon when he was 18 years old. In 2007, he broke the 20 km road running record and improved the half marathon record by over twenty seconds.
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Ana Isabel Alonso Ana Isabel Alonso (born 16 August 1961 in Villaherreros, Palencia) is a former long-distance runner from Spain, who represented her native country in three Summer Olympics: 1988, 1996 and 2000. Her best finish came at her Olympic debut in Seoul, South Korea, where Alonso ended up in 25th place in the women's 10.000 metres race. In Atlanta, Georgia and Sydney, Australia she ran the marathon, finishing in 49th (2:44:12) and 30th (2:36.45) place. In 2000, she won the Rotterdam Marathon.