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- On Sunday, as the 2022 FIFA World Cup kicked off in Qatar, the former captain of the Dutch football team, Arjen Robben, ran a quick 15K at Zevenheuvelenloop (Seven Hills Race) in Nijmegen, Netherlands. Robben clocked a surprising time of 55:01, placing 370th out of 15,000 runners.
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Nov 28, 2022 · From world-class footballer to competitive age-group runner, Arjen Robben shows off impressive speed over 15 km
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In November, former Dutch soccer star Arjen Robbenran the Zevenheuvelenloop, a popular 15K race in Nijmegen, Netherlands. Robben played for some of the top clubs in Europe, including Real Madrid and Bayern Munich, and he made it to the World Cup Final in 2010 with the Dutch national team. In Nijmegen, he ran the 15K course in 55:01, a time that wor...
In 1982, Wayne Gretzky (you might also know him as the best hockey player of all time) ran an exhibition race in Sweden alongside Pelé, Sugar Ray Leonard and Björn Borg—some of his fellow sports stars of the day. The race was 60m, and right from the gun, there was no doubt that it was Gretzky’s to win. He blasted off of the starting blocks and flew...
Alex Honnold is one of the world’s most famous climbers, thanks mainly to his 2017 free solo (meaning he climbed without ropes) ascent of Yosemite’s El Capitan and the subsequent Oscar-winning film,Free Solo, which documented his climb. It turns out that Honnold is not just a rockstar climber, as he proved he can run pretty quickly (and far) when h...
Norwegian cross-country skier Therese Johaughas the most impressive transition to running on this list, thanks to a couple of 10,000m races she ran in 2019 and 2021. Johaug is a six-time Olympic medallist (four of them gold) and a 19-time world championship medallist (with a whopping 14 gold). She entered the 2019 Norwegian 10,000m championship on ...
British cycling champion Chris Froomemay not have run an actual race, but in the 2016 Tour de France, he did resort to running the course for a stretch following a crash. Froome had a kilometre to go in that day’s stage when he collided with a motorcycle. His bike was wrecked and couldn’t have gotten him to the finish, so he turned and ran uphill u...
Arjen Robben participated in the Hills Race 15K, one of the largest races in the Netherlands. Robben completed the 15 kilometers in 55:01 minutes, maintaining an impressive average pace of 3:40...
The Ugandan distance athlete ran the 15K Sunday morning in 41:05 in Nijmegen, Netherlands at the Seven Hills Run. This is the third men’s world record to fall on the roads in 2018. Eliud Kipchoge clocked 2:01:39 for the marathon world record in Berlin, then Abraham Kiptum’s set the half-marathon world record of 58:18, and now Cheptegei’s ...
Robben completed the 15 kilometers in 55:01 minutes, maintaining an impressive average pace of 3:40 minutes per kilometer. He started strong (first kilometer at 3:29) and finished even faster (last kilometer at 3:22).
Zevenheuvelenloop lends itself to fast times: Felix Limo broke the men's world record in 2001 and, at the 2009 edition, Tirunesh Dibaba broke the women's world record over 15 km. [4] [5] In 2010, Leonard Komon improved Limo's World Record by running 41:13. [6]
