Barefoot Runner

Paul Rambali

RRP: £8.99

Publisher: SERPENT'S TAIL

Publication Date : 03/07/2008

Paperback

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Guardian Bookshop Notes:

Subtitled, "The Life Of Marathon Champion Abebe Bikila". Tells the whole story of the first black athlete to win an Olympic gold medal, from his birth into poverty in Ethiopia in 1932 to his death in 1973. Ties in with the Beijing Olympics.

Publisher's description:

Abebe Bikila was the first black African to win an Olympic gold medal. He won the marathon running barefoot in Rome in 1960 and won again wearing shoes in Tokyo in 1964, becoming the first person to win the most grueling of all human contests twice.

ISBN: 9781846686535