hurdler

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The young hurdler was the runner-up in 8.06, and was faster than Russian champions from past years, the experienced Irina Shevchenko and Olga Korsunova who clocked the same time of 8.15.

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  • His body grew firmer, stronger, tense as a hurdler crouched on the starting line, ready for the demands soon to be made upon it. —  EQMM,July2007
  • The flared morning-glory mouth of the wind scoop was about six feet across, and the vertical pipe around four feet in diameter, and he went into the thing like a hurdler, feet first. —  133 - The Derelict of Skull Shoal
  • I like the way Alan King's seven-year-old staying novice hurdler is progressing.
  • Not an inspiring day's racing, so Emma Lavelle's seven-year-old German-bred handicap hurdler is a very tentative selection.
  • While the St. George school hunted for talent all over the State, the Parli school concentrated on the local talent and brought to the fore stars and multiple gold medallists like distance runner M.D. Thara and sprinter-hurdler P. Merlin. —  The Hindu - Front Page
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