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text: Emilia Pardo Bazán

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text: Miguel Primo de Rivera

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paragraph: Blanca de los Ríos

paragraph: Blanca de los Ríos Nostench (15 August 1862 – 13 April 1956) was a Spanish writer and painter.

paragraph: Section::::Life and work.

paragraph: Blanca de los Ríos Nostench was an outstanding writer and literary critic, although she remains an obscure figure despite her intense and fruitful efforts. Her work has been translated into almost all European languages. Her birth into a cultured family brought her a broad education, as Consuelo Flecha points out in her 2000 biography of the author: "Surrounded by a family environment of writers, politicians, artists, and doctors, her education benefited from the wealth of stimuli and possibilities that this cultural context provided her with: her father, , architect; her maternal grandfather, doctor; her uncles, writers like José Amador de los Ríos; and politicians, were a reference which she knew how to intelligently call on, even though she knew that, as a woman, not all roads were equally easy for her."

paragraph: She married (1861–1923), a well-known architect and archaeologist from Madrid and professor at the Madrid School of Architecture who made restorations and reforms of monuments such as the cathedrals of Cuenca and Burgos, and published important studies on the history of architecture. The move to the capital granted the author direct contact with its literary and intellectual environment and extended her horizons and plans.

paragraph: Perhaps because of this awareness of the difficulties of being a woman, she hid her identity in her first works for the press, which were published under the name Carolina del Boss, an anagram of her own, although she quickly abandoned this pseudonym to sign as Blanca de los Ríos. A precocious writer, her first novel "Margarita" was published in 1878, when she was only 16, followed by the poetry collections "Los funerales del César" (1880), "Esperanzas y recuerdos" (1881; expanded in 1912), "El romancero de Don Jaime El Conquistador", and "La novia del marinero" (1886). A little later came her novels "Melita palma" (1901), "Sangre española" (1902), and "La niña Sanabria" (1907). During these years she published numerous short stories such as "Las hijas de don Juan", "Madrid goyesco", and "Los diablos azules", and story collections such as "La Rondeña" (Andalusian tales) and "El Salvador" (various stories) in 1902, and "El tesoro de Sorbas" in 1914.

paragraph: She wrote for periodicals such as ', ', ', "El Correo de la Moda", ', "La Ilustración Española y Americana", "Blanco y Negro", "La Enseñanza Moderna", ', and especially ', a magazine that she founded and directed from 1918 to its closure in 1930. In this, as in other publications, she conveyed her feminist ideas.

paragraph: She was a friend of Emilia Pardo Bazán, who had a very good opinion of her as a writer.

paragraph: She participated as a collaborator in the writing of the "Enciclopedia universal ilustrada europeo-americana".

paragraph: The concern for women and relations between Spain and Latin America were always present in her thoughts, reflected by her participation in various associations and events such as the Americanist Assembly of Barcelona, the Cádiz and Madrid Centers of Hispano-American Culture, the Superior Board of Charity of Madrid, and the Union of Spanish Ladies, in which she advocated for progress in protective measures for women at work. She belonged to the Ateneo de Madrid and was part of the from 1927 to 1929 during the dictatorship of Miguel Primo de Rivera.

paragraph: The field in which she was most distinguished, and in which she left the greatest literary legacy, was undoubtedly the study and criticism of literature, in which she took Marcelino Menéndez y Pelayo as her teacher, following the rules of historical research and criticism that he proposed. One of her principal works is "Del siglo de Oro", published in 1910, for which Menéndez Pelayo himself wrote the prologue, in which he said of her: "The illustrious lady author of this book does not need anyone to present her to the reader with informal commendations. They would always be inferior to her proven merits and to the just notoriety that she enjoys as an artist of noble lyrical and narrative ingenuity."

paragraph: Blanca de los Ríos made numerous studies of Tirso de Molina, for which she is today generally blamed, at least in biographical regard, for a lack of documentary rigor. She represented Tirso as an illegitimate son of the Duke of Osuna, something that has been shown to be extremely unlikely. Her "Obras completas" is viewed much more favorably by critics. This work earned her recognition from the Royal Spanish Academy, which she was not part of despite having been presented as a candidate. During these studies, she discovered the baptismal certificate of Lope de Vega, which until then was believed lost in the 1790 fire of the . After making numerous attempts, she discovered it in a private house on . Some of the church's books had been deposited there and left unharmed, among which she found, forgotten, the baptismal book of the period 1516 to 1573.

paragraph: Other notable texts include those that she published about Calderón de la Barca and his works "La vida es sueño y los diez Segismundos de Calderón" and "Quijote: Sevilla, cuna del Quijote". In 1916 she published a work on , dedicated to the analysis of the contribution of this writer and translator from Cadiz in the context of 19th-century romanticism. She also examined some literary characters with "Los grandes mitos de la Edad Moderna: Don Quijote, Don Juan, Segismundo, Hamlet y Fausto". Her "Del siglo de Oro" also includes an extensive bibliography, in which news is given of the books that were being translated into French, Italian, German, and Danish to be disseminated in those countries.

paragraph: She also devoted her efforts to the figure and work of Saint Teresa of Ávila, on which she gave various lectures: "Influjo de la mística de Santa Teresa, singularmente sobre nuestro grande arte nacional" (1913), "Santa Teresa de Jesús y su apostolado de amor" (1915), "Guía espiritual de España" (1915), and "Ávila y Santa Teresa" (1915). For this facet she has been highly praised, with descriptions such as, "As a lecturer Blanca de los Ríos is also an eminent figure by the greatness of the issues she addresses, by the elevation and originality of thought, by the richness of her inexhaustible lexicon, for the elegance of her syntax, both classical and modern, for the nobility and ornamentation of her style, and for her fervent and persuasive elocution."

paragraph: She received not only the praise of critics but also numerous decorations, among them the Grand Cross of the Order of Alfonso XII (in a tribute presided over by Queen Victoria Eugenie in 1924), the (1931), the Grand Cross of Alfonso X the Wise (1949), Colombia's Grand Cross of Boyaca, as well as the recognition of the City of Seville, which named a street for her in 1916.

alias:
Blanca de los Ríos de Lampérez
Blanca de los Rios
Blanca de los Rios de Lamperez
Blanca de los Ríos Nostench

description: Spanish writer, painter

wikidata_label: Blanca de los Ríos

wikipedia_title: Blanca de los Ríos


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CricketArchive profile
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paragraph: Henry Lowther (politician)

paragraph: Hon Henry Cecil Lowther, DL, JP (1790–1867) was an English Conservative politician and an amateur cricketer who played first-class cricket from 1819 to 1843. He was the second son of William Lowther, 1st Earl of Lonsdale, and his wife Lady Augusta (née Fane). His long service in the House of Commons saw him become the Father of the House.

paragraph: Section::::Military career.

paragraph: Born 27 July 1790 at Lowther Castle, Westmorland, Lowther was Educated at Westminster School, he entered the army on 16 July 1807 as a cornet in the 7th Hussars. He was promoted lieutenant on 21 July 1808 and captain on 4 October 1810. He served with the 7th Hussars during the campaign of 1809 in Spain, including the battles of Mayorga, Sahagún, Benevente, and the retreat to Corunna. From 1812 until 1814, he was in Wellington's army during the Peninsular War, and was made a major in the 10th Hussars on 12 November 1815. He received the Peninsular Medal with three clasps after the war. On 20 April 1817 he went into the 12th Regiment of Foot as a lieutenant-colonel, with which rank he retired on half-pay. In 1830 he transferred to the 44th Foot.

paragraph: Section::::Cricket career.

paragraph: A right-handed batsman and right arm slow roundarm bowler who was mainly associated with Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC), Lowther made 47 known appearances in first-class matches. He played for the Gentlemen in the Gentlemen v Players series and also played for both Hampshire and Surrey.

paragraph: Section::::Family.

paragraph: Lowther married Lady Lucy Eleanor Sherard, daughter of Philip Sherard, 5th Earl of Harborough, on 19 May 1817. They had seven children:

paragraph: BULLET::::- Eleanor Cecily Lowther (d. 24 November 1894), married John Talbot Clifton on 22 April 1844

paragraph: BULLET::::- Augusta Mary Lowther (d. 11 January 1916), married Gerard Noel

paragraph: BULLET::::- Henry Lowther, 3rd Earl of Lonsdale (1818–1876)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Arthur Lowther (12 July 1820 – 15 February 1855)

paragraph: BULLET::::- William Lowther (1821–1912)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Constantia Lowther (1831–1864), married Col. Robert Blücher Wood

paragraph: Between 1818 and 1839, he played first-class cricket for Hampshire and Surrey. He was appointed colonel of the Royal Cumberland Militia in 1830.

paragraph: First elected in 1812 for Westmorland, a constituency long in the family interest, he continued to be returned until his death on 6 December 1867 at Barleythorpe Hall, Rutland. In 1862, he became Father of the House. He was the last MP elected during the reign of George III.

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- CricketArchive profile

paragraph: Section::::Further reading.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Arthur Haygarth, "Scores & Biographies", Volumes 1–11 (1744–1870), Lillywhite, 1862–72

description: British politician and cricketer

wikidata_label: Henry Lowther

wikipedia_title: Henry Lowther (politician)


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text: Kelso High School

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text: University of Washington

text: valedictorian

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text: 2008 Major League Baseball draft

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text: Clearwater Threshers

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text: Paul Owens Award

text: prospect

text: Baseball America

text: Vance Worley

text: Minnesota Twins

text: Ben Revere

text: All-Star Futures Game

text: Oakland Athletics

text: Rochester Red Wings

text: Class AAA

text: International League

text: Chicago White Sox

text: stress fracture

text: MRI

text: ulnar collateral ligament

text: Tommy John surgery

text: Twitch

text: Winston's Lab

text: Overwatch League (OWL)

text: Luminosity Gaming

text: Trevor May's Official Website

text: Trevor May's Twitch Channel

categories: Reading Phillies players,New Britain Rock Cats players,People from Kelso, Washington,Lakewood BlueClaws players,Baseball players from Washington (state),Clearwater Threshers players,1989 births,Rochester Red Wings players,Major League Baseball pitchers,Minnesota Twins players,Living people,Gulf Coast Phillies players

paragraph: Trevor May

paragraph: Trevor J. May (born September 23, 1989) is an American professional baseball pitcher for the Minnesota Twins of Major League Baseball (MLB).

paragraph: Section::::High school.

paragraph: May attended Kelso High School in Kelso, Washington. In his senior year, he led the Hilanders to a 25-2 win–loss record, and a second-place finish at the 3A Washington Interscholastic Activities Association baseball championships. He had signed a letter of intent to play at the University of Washington. May was named 3A State Player of the Year by the Washington State Baseball Coaches Association. He graduated in 2008 as class valedictorian.

paragraph: Section::::Professional career.

paragraph: Section::::Professional career.:Philadelphia Phillies organization.

paragraph: May was drafted by the Philadelphia Phillies in the fourth round of the 2008 Major League Baseball draft.

paragraph: Prior to the 2011 season, May was the Phillies best prospect according to "Baseball America" That season, while pitching for the Clearwater Threshers, he went 10-8 with a 3.63 earned run average and 208 strikeouts in 151 innings. After the season, he won the Paul Owens Award, which is awarded to the Phillies best minor league pitcher.

paragraph: Prior to the 2012 season, May was the Phillies' best prospect according to "Baseball America". He was ranked 69th in all of baseball.

paragraph: Section::::Professional career.:Minnesota Twins.

paragraph: On December 6, 2012 he was traded, along with Vance Worley, to the Minnesota Twins for Ben Revere. May was named to the 2014 All-Star Futures Game, but withdrew due to injury.

paragraph: May made his major league debut on August 9, 2014, against the Oakland Athletics. He had been pitching well for the Rochester Red Wings of the Class AAA International League, but lasted only two innings, throwing 28 of 63 pitches for strikes, walking seven, allowing four earned runs, and not striking out a batter. May got his first major league win on September 3, 2014 as the Twins beat the Chicago White Sox at home, 11-4. He pitched 5.1 innings allowing 6 hits and 3 earned runs while striking out 6.

paragraph: In 2016, he was 2-2 with a 5.27 ERA as a reliever, before his season ended with a back injury that was diagnosed as a stress fracture. In March 2017 an MRI revealed that May had a tear in his ulnar collateral ligament in his pitching elbow. On March 21, it was revealed that May would undergo Tommy John surgery, therefore ending his 2017 season.

paragraph: May began the 2018 season on the 60-day disabled list. He was activated on June 6, and optioned to Triple-A.

paragraph: Section::::Personal life.

paragraph: May has an avid interest in electronic music, previously using the pseudonym DJ HEYBEEF; more recently, DJ MAZR, and streams on Twitch. May described himself as "a partnered Twitch Streamer, a DJ, a Social Media connoisseur, an esports Entrepreneur, a gaming tournament organizer and commentator, and obviously an exceptional writer." May is a co-owner of Winston's Lab, an "Esports Lab" that focuses on measuring players' and teams' performance in Overwatch League (OWL). In February of 2017, May signed with the professional Esports organization, Luminosity Gaming

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Trevor May's Official Website

paragraph: BULLET::::- Trevor May's Twitch Channel

description: baseball player from the United States

wikidata_label: Trevor May

wikipedia_title: Trevor May


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1954
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E. J. Whitten Legends Game
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Melbourne
Charlie Utting
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Punt Road Oval
Don "Mopsy" Fraser
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1966 VFL season
Jack Collins
Charlie Sutton
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Williamstown
1975 VFA season
State of Origin
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Western Australia
Australian Football Championships
Mike Brady
Order of Australia
Australian Football Hall of Fame
AFL Team of the Century
The Australian
Brownlow medal
Sport Australia Hall of Fame
Ron Barassi
Leigh Matthews
prostate cancer
MCG
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MCG
Mariah Carey
The Age
The Footy Show
Eddie McGuire
Sam Newman
Wayne Schwass
Garry Lyon
Doug Hawkins
Western Ring Road
Whitten (Western) Oval
Ted Whitten jnr
EJ Whitten Legends Game
prostate cancer

categories: 1995 deaths,Sportspeople from Melbourne,Australian rules footballers from Victoria (Australia),1933 births,Western Bulldogs coaches,Braybrook Football Club players,Deaths from prostate cancer,Charles Sutton Medal winners,Australian Football Hall of Fame inductees,Western Bulldogs players,Australian rules football commentators,All-Australians (1953–1988)

paragraph: Ted Whitten

paragraph: Edward James Whitten (27 July 1933 – 17 August 1995) better known as Ted Whitten or E. J. Whitten, was an Australian rules footballer who represented in the Victorian Football League (VFL), and Victoria in interstate football. Recognised as one of the game's all-time greatest players, he was one of twelve inaugural "Legends" inducted into the Australian Football Hall of Fame. In 1996, he was voted captain and centre half-back in the AFL's Team of the Century.

paragraph: Nicknamed "Mr. Football", Whitten was a folk hero in Melbourne's working class western suburbs, admired not only for his footballing abilities, but his showmanship and larrikin streak. He played in Footscray's first VFL/AFL premiership in 1954, and ended his senior career in 1970 having played 321 games, a VFL/AFL record that remained unbroken for four years. Apart from club-level football, Whitten was a significant exponent and promoter of State of Origin, representing his state in 29 matches. After retiring as a player, Whitten turned to coaching, and continued to contribute to the game as a popular commentator and media personality.

paragraph: Western Oval, the Footscray Football Club's home ground, was renamed Whitten Oval in his honour. His enthusiasm for State of Origin football is marked by the E. J. Whitten Legends Game, a charity match held annually since 1995.

paragraph: Section::::Early days.

paragraph: Whitten grew up in the western suburbs of Braybrook and Footscray in Melbourne. As a youth, Whitten played for Braybrook on Saturdays and Collingwood Amateurs on Sundays; he was urged by the Collingwood Amateurs coach Charlie Utting (a former Collingwood VFL star) to try out for the Collingwood team but was told later to come back in a few years after building up body strength. Within 12 months he was playing for Footscray, the team he had always supported.

paragraph: Section::::Football career.

paragraph: Whitten made his VFL debut in round 1, 1951, against at the Punt Road Oval and joined a special group of players by kicking a goal with his first kick. During the match, Don "Mopsy" Fraser, a notoriously volatile defender for Richmond, knocked Whitten out late in the third quarter. Whitten later said that Fraser did him a favour that day, hardening his attitude and making him realise that League football was a no-nonsense game that only the toughest could succeed at.

paragraph: In Round 5 against at the Western Oval, Whitten kicked two goals in a 28-point win, but suffered a serious injury to his left ankle. Although his injury responded quickly to treatment, Whitten would not play again until Round 8 against .

paragraph: He was a key member of Footscray's 1954 VFL Premiership victory, the club's only premiership until 2016.

paragraph: Whitten played his very best football as a key position player, either at centre half-forward or centre half-back. Australian football writers Russell Holmesby and Jim Main described Whitten as a "prodigious kick, a flawless mark" and as having unequalled "ground and hand skills".

paragraph: With superb all-round skills, Whitten had the extraordinary talent of being able to kick equally well with his right and left foot. On one occasion, playing against Richmond at Footscray, in the mid-1960s, he broke out of the ruck, to the left, from a centre bounce, ran two paces to balance himself, and kicked a left-foot torpedo kick for a goal. The ball was returned to the centre, bounced, and Whitten burst out of the pack, to the right, ran three paces and kicked a right-foot torpedo kick for a goal.

paragraph: One of the best exponents of the "flick pass", which was eventually banned, Whitten was one of few football players to have the ability to play any position on the field. He was regarded by his contemporaries in the 1950s and 1960s as the greatest naturally talented player of his era;

paragraph: Over the course of his playing career, Whitten experienced conflict with the Footscray committee, none more dramatic than at the end of the 1966 VFL season, when he came close to joining after he was replaced as coach. When Footscray refused the clearance, Whitten threatened to retire, and the matter was only resolved when former teammate Jack Collins took over as club president and convinced Whitten to return and play under his former coach Charlie Sutton.

paragraph: With the demands of coaching and playing beginning to take a toll on his ageing body, Whitten was allowed by the Footscray committee to play four games in 1970 to break Dick Reynolds' longstanding VFL record of 320 games before he retired as a player. His 321st and final game was against Hawthorn at the Western Oval, a game which Footscray won by three points. He continued to coach Footscray until the end of the 1971 season.

paragraph: He coached Williamstown in the 1975 VFA season.

paragraph: Section::::Off the field.

paragraph: As well as being a star player (he appeared for Victoria on 29 occasions), Whitten was a passionate promoter of the game – in particular the State of Origin competition, representing and captaining "The Big V" on many occasions. He was also chairman of selectors for the state team after retiring from playing football. He was a key promotional tool for the series, often featured promoting the Victorian team with his saying "Stick it right up 'em", and had a profound impact on the concept during his time being associated. A notable example of this, was before the 1983 game between Victoria and Western Australia, which was for the Australian Football Championships, a new format for the competition, in which Victoria had previously lost to South Australia, and was on verge for the first time in history of losing all of its interstate matches in a year. On the bus ride to the ground Whitten sternly walked down the aisle, and handed out cards which had the Victorian theme song, which hadn't been sung in at least 10 years. And then began to start singing the song, with the players joining in, with soon being sung with feverish enthusiasm, with it being described the players had a tone in there voice of "let's get these little bastards". He also inspired many players during his time as a selector including Paul Roos, Danny Frawley and Jim Stynes.

paragraph: Whitten once famously said: "Years ago you had to crawl over cut glass to get one" (i.e. a state guernsey), He worked as a football commentator on television throughout the 1970s and as a radio commentator in the latter part of his life.

paragraph: Mike Brady wrote a song about him called, "It all sounds like football to me". Ted Whitten is heard answering questions humorously on the song.

paragraph: Section::::Post-career honours.

paragraph: In 1992, Whitten was awarded the Order of Australia medal for his services to Australian football.

paragraph: In 1996, he was among the first batch of inductees to the Australian Football Hall of Fame, and was one of the twelve players immediately elevated to "Legend" status. He was selected as Captain of the AFL Team of the Century. In 2009 The Australian nominated Whitten as one of the 25 greatest footballers never to win a Brownlow medal.

paragraph: Whitten is one of only three Australian rules footballers recognised as a Legend of Australian Sport in the Sport Australia Hall of Fame, alongside Ron Barassi and Leigh Matthews.

paragraph: Section::::Death and legacy.

paragraph: In 1995, Whitten went public with the announcement that he was suffering from prostate cancer. On 17 June he made his final public appearance at the MCG before the State of Origin match between Victoria and South Australia. Suffering from blindness due to a stroke, Whitten was driven in a white convertible for a lap of honour around the MCG, accompanied by his son and three grandchildren while Mariah Carey's cover of the song "Hero" was played on the PA system. He received a standing ovation from the crowd. This event was polled as the most memorable football event by the Melbourne newspaper The Age, and the moment is captured in Jamie Cooper's painting "the Game That Made Australia", commissioned by the AFL in 2008 to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the sport.

paragraph: Whitten died from cancer on 17 August 1995. His death, while imminent, came as a shock to the football community. News of Whitten's passing was broken live on an episode of "The Footy Show". Producer Harvey Silver learned of Whitten's death early in the recording of the episode, but did not break the news to host Eddie McGuire and panelists Sam Newman, Wayne Schwass, Garry Lyon and Doug Hawkins until during the final commercial break of the episode. Hawkins in particular, who was a close friend of Whitten, was emotionally distressed upon hearing the news, and could only manage to say "He was a great man, Teddy." Newman, also a close friend of Whitten, told host Eddie McGuire after the news was broken to the studio audience and viewers: "They say the show must go on, but if we'd known that when we started, the show wouldn't have gone on." The usual studio audience applause that came with the conclusion of the episode was replaced with a silent fade to the "Footy Show" motif.

paragraph: One journalist remembered Whitten's impact on communities in the western suburbs of Melbourne:

paragraph: Such was Whitten's popularity, he was given a nationally televised state funeral, had a bridge named for him (EJ Whitten Bridge on the Western Ring Road) and a statue erected at the Bulldogs' former home ground, Whitten (Western) Oval in Footscray, which was also renamed in his honour.

paragraph: After Whitten's death, his son, Ted Whitten jnr instituted the EJ Whitten Legends Game in the memory of his father. The game is a charity match to raise money for prostate cancer research.

paragraph: Section::::Death and legacy.:Year-by-year statistics.

paragraph: "Source"

description: Australian rules footballer, coach and commentator

wikidata_label: Ted Whitten

wikipedia_title: Ted Whitten


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Cambridge
Morgan Motor Company
Morgan Aero 8
2004 24 Hours of Le Mans
24 Hours Nürburgring
American Le Mans Series
TOCA Race Driver 3

categories: People educated at The Perse School,1955 births,English racing drivers,Living people

paragraph: Keith Ahlers

paragraph: Keith Ahlers (born 13 August 1955) is a British race car driver. He was born in Cambridge, England, and was educated at the Perse School for Boys, Cambridge.

paragraph: He is associated with Morgan Motor Company, driving a privately owned car (not the Morgan Aero 8 as in the 2004 24 Hours of Le Mans) in the 24 Hours Nürburgring each year.

paragraph: In 2004 he drove one race of the American Le Mans Series. He is frequenting the New Forest Morgan sports car club. He is also one of the drivers featured in the video game TOCA Race Driver 3.

description: British racing driver

wikidata_label: Keith Ahlers

wikipedia_title: Keith Ahlers


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Helsinki
Finnish
rally
race car
Fiat
Lancia
Subaru
Toyota
World Rally Championship
record
Sébastien Loeb
2011 Rally Catalunya
FIA
1978
World Championship for Drivers
1979
1986
Peugeot
Rallye Sanremo
ice racing
Renault 8
Gordini
1000 Lakes Rally
Volvo 142
World Rally Championship
1973 1000 Lakes Rally
Timo Mäkinen
Fiat
Ford
Escort RS 1600
RAC Rally
1974
1975
Fiat 124 Abarth Rallye
Rally Portugal
1976 season
Fiat 131 Abarth
manufacturers' title
1978
Rallye Sanremo
Lancia Stratos HF
Jean-Pierre Nicolas
Hannu Mikkola
1982
Group B
homologated
Lancia 037
1983
Audi
Quattro
constructors' championship
1984
Tour de Corse
Lancia Delta S4
Great Britain
1985 season
Henri Toivonen
Corsica
1986
World Rally Championship
Peugeot 205 Turbo 16 E2
Juha Kankkunen
Rallye Sanremo
Peugeot
FISA
Group A
Lancia Delta HF 4WD
1987
RAC Rally
following year
1990
Prodrive
Subaru
World Rally Team
Subaru Legacy
1000 Lakes Rally
following season
1992
Toyota
Carlos Sainz
1993 season
Safari Rally
Portugal
1981
Ari Vatanen
Subaru Impreza
International Touring Car Championship
Alfa Romeo
DTM
Trophy Andros
2001
Neste Rally Finland
Ford Focus WRC
Paris-Dakar
Anton Alén
Super 2000
Fiat Punto
Intercontinental Rally Challenge
Luca di Montezemolo
Ferrari 458 Italia
Profile at RallyBase

categories: World Rally Champions,Finnish racing drivers,Sportspeople from Helsinki,World Rally Championship drivers,1951 births,Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters drivers,24 Hours of Le Mans drivers,World Sportscar Championship drivers,Finnish rally drivers,Living people

paragraph: Markku Alén

paragraph: Markku Allan Alén (born 15 February 1951, in Helsinki) is a Finnish former rally and race car driver. He drove for Fiat, Lancia, Subaru and Toyota in the World Rally Championship, and held the record for most stage wins (801) in the series, until Sébastien Loeb overtook it at the 2011 Rally Catalunya. Alén's phrase "now maximum attack" became well-known.

paragraph: Alén never won the world championship itself, despite being for a long time the driver with the most wins to his credit. However, he did win the FIA Cup for Drivers in 1978, the precursor to the World Championship for Drivers established in 1979. In 1986, he was the world champion for eleven days, until Peugeot's appeal went through and the results of Rallye Sanremo, which Alén had won, were annulled.

paragraph: Section::::Career.

paragraph: Section::::Career.:Early.

paragraph: Alén's interest in motorsport came from his father, who was the 1963 Finnish champion in ice racing. Alén started his rallying career in 1969 driving a Renault 8 Gordini, and finished ninth at the 1000 Lakes Rally at his first attempt. After getting a contract with the Finnish Volvo importer to drive the Volvo 142, he finished third at the 1000 Lakes in 1971 and 1972. At his World Rally Championship debut at the 1973 1000 Lakes Rally, he took second place behind Timo Mäkinen.

paragraph: Section::::Career.:Fiat (1974–81).

paragraph: Alén's performances at his home event caught the attention of both Fiat and Ford. With Ford's Escort RS 1600, he established his reputation as a hard-charger on the 1973 RAC Rally by finishing third, despite rolling his car on the first day and dropping to 178th place. This resulted in a "dream contract" with Fiat, with a very large salary. Alén also became the first rally driver to be assigned a personal fitness program.

paragraph: In 1974 and 1975, Alén drove the Fiat 124 Abarth Rallye, achieving several podiums and then his debut WRC win at the 1975 Rally Portugal. During the 1976 season, Fiat debuted the new Fiat 131 Abarth, which would prove to be a big improvement over its predecessor. Alén won the 1976 1000 Lakes and the 1977 Rally Portugal, and helped Fiat to their first manufacturers' title in 1977.

paragraph: Then in 1978, Alén took the car to two wins and five consecutive podiums. In the Rallye Sanremo, he debuted in Alitalia Fiat's Lancia Stratos HF and won his third world rally of the season. These performances brought him the FIA Cup for Drivers title, well ahead of main rivals Jean-Pierre Nicolas and Hannu Mikkola, and Fiat their second manufacturers' title. Alén continued with Fiat for the next three years, taking a win each season.

paragraph: Section::::Career.:Lancia (1982–89).

paragraph: After Fiat wound up their works rally team, Alén moved to the related Lancia team. In 1982 he debuted the marque's first of two Group B category homologated models, the Lancia 037, a rear-wheel drive car which was, in consequence, a particular performer on the championship's asphalt rounds. Alén's several wins with it in 1983 helped Lancia narrowly pip Audi and their four-wheel drive long wheelbase Quattro to that year's constructors' championship. Indeed, it was Alén who was responsible for the car's final victory, on the 1984 Tour de Corse, in a year in which Audi retook both of the title honours, before it was replaced by the four-wheel drive Lancia Delta S4 from the final round, in Great Britain, of the 1985 season.

paragraph: Having become unequivocal team leader in the aftermath of teammate Henri Toivonen's death in Corsica the following year, Alén narrowly lost the 1986 World Rally Championship to rival driver, Peugeot 205 Turbo 16 E2 pilot Juha Kankkunen. Late in the season, Alén had been victorious on the Rallye Sanremo only after Kankkunen's Peugeot team was excluded by the organisers on a controversial technicality. Peugeot subsequently appealed the exclusion to the FISA, which eventually annulled the results of the rally, stripping Alén of the World Championship title which he had held for just eleven days, which led to Alen famously boycotting the 1987 Monte Carlo Rally.

paragraph: Alén remained at Lancia after the abolition of Group B at the end of 1986, and adapted successfully to the replacement Group A formula. He won three events in the Lancia Delta HF 4WD in 1987, but lost his chance to take second place in the world driver's championship after rolling his car in front of the TV cameras on the 1987 RAC Rally. He won another three events the following year, culminating in an emotional first victory in the RAC, an event he had been trying to win for fifteen years. It was to be his last world championship victory.

paragraph: Section::::Career.:Later career.

paragraph: In 1990, Alén moved to the burgeoning Prodrive-run Subaru World Rally Team, and was responsible for many of the Subaru Legacy's early successes, including fourth in the 1990 1000 Lakes Rally, and a third and two fourth places the following season. For 1992 he moved to the Toyota team, but found himself playing very much a supporting role to Carlos Sainz. The 1993 season found Alén without a full-time position, and he drove for Toyota and Subaru early in the season, taking second place for Toyota in the Safari Rally and 4th for Subaru in Portugal. Along with fellow veteran and 1981 World Champion Ari Vatanen, he drove the Subaru Impreza on its debut event, the 1000 Lakes Rally. Unfortunately for Alén, he crashed on the first stage of the event. This effectively marked the end of his career as a top-line rally driver.

paragraph: He drove two races of the International Touring Car Championship of 1995 for Alfa Romeo, driving the same number of races in DTM earlier that year. He also drove in Trophy Andros in 1996 and 1997.

paragraph: To celebrate his 50th birthday in 2001, he entered that year's Neste Rally Finland in August, finishing in a respectable 16th place overall with a Ford Focus WRC. He has also participated in the Paris-Dakar rally twice in the truck class. His son Anton Alén, is driving a Super 2000 class Fiat Punto in the Intercontinental Rally Challenge series.

paragraph: In March 2010, Luca di Montezemolo hired Alén as a Ferrari test driver. He started with snow tests on the Ferrari 458 Italia.

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Profile at RallyBase

alias:
Markku Allan Alen
Markku Alen
Markku Allan Alén

description: rally driver, winner of the 1978 FIA Cup for Rally Drivers

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wikipedia_title: Markku Alén


text: track

text: cross country

text: Asian cross country champion

text: road running

text: half marathon

text: Nagoya

text: Osaka Women's Marathon

text: 2003 World Championships in Athletics

text: 2004 Athens Olympics

text: Berlin Marathon

text: world records

text: Asian record

text: Mary Keitany

text: 2008 Summer Olympics

text: Zevenheuvelenloop

text: Nagoya Marathon

text: Kanagawa

text: Ise

text: Mie

text: Ujiyamada Commercial High School

text: Wacoal

text: Nobuyuki Fujita

text: Globaly

text: Asian Cross Country Championships

text: Inuyama

text: half marathon

text: Miyazaki

text: Nagoya

text: Osaka

text: silver medal

text: World Championships

text: Globaly

text: Sysmex

text: 2004 Athens Olympics

text: Paula Radcliffe

text: Catherine Ndereba

text: Deena Kastor

text: Berlin Marathon

text: Naoko Takahashi

text: marathoninfo

categories: 1978 births,Medalists at the 2004 Summer Olympics,People from Ise, Mie,Japanese female long-distance runners,Athletes (track and field) at the 2004 Summer Olympics,Olympic gold medalists for Japan,Olympic athletes of Japan,Recipients of the Medal with Purple Ribbon,Japanese female marathon runners,World Championships in Athletics medalists,Olympic gold medalists in athletics (track and field),Living people

paragraph: Mizuki Noguchi

paragraph: Initially starting out as a track and cross country athlete, her first major success was becoming the Asian cross country champion at age 21. She soon switched to road running, however, focusing on the half marathon. She won the individual and team silver medals at the 1999 IAAF World Half Marathon Championships, and won a second team silver with a fourth-place finish at the same competition in 2000.

paragraph: A switch to the marathon event demonstrated her talents further: She won the Nagoya and Osaka Women's Marathons, and took the silver medal in the marathon at the 2003 World Championships in Athletics. Her good form continued and she became the Olympic champion in the marathon at the 2004 Athens Olympics. She won the Berlin Marathon the following year, setting world records at 25 km and 30 km along the way, and finishing with a personal best of 2:19:12 – a course record in Berlin and a new Asian record for the distance. The 25K world record was beaten by Mary Keitany of Kenya in 2010, who ran the distance in 1:19:53 hours.

paragraph: Before the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, Noguchi had set the second fastest time in the world for the previous year. However, she was ruled out of all competitions after tests revealed that she had fatigue and a muscular back problem. She missed the Olympics and the entire 2009 and 2010 seasons as a result. She returned in November 2011 with a fifth-place finish at the Zevenheuvelenloop. She tried to gain a spot on the 2012 Olympic team, but her run of 2:25:33 hours left her in sixth at the Nagoya Marathon. A return to Nagoya in 2013 brought her third place with a run of 2:24:05 hours.

paragraph: Section::::Early career.

paragraph: Noguchi was born in Kanagawa and grew up in Ise in Ise city in Mie. She started competing in track and field during her first year of middle school. While attending Ujiyamada Commercial High School, she entered the national high school track meet and competed in the 3000 m and the long-distance relay.

paragraph: In 1997 she was hired by Wacoal, a maker of women's clothing, as part of their "Spark Angels" program of sponsored women athletes. In October of the following year the director, Nobuyuki Fujita (藤田信之), left over differences with the company. He took with him a coach and a few athletes, including Noguchi. While she was receiving unemployment benefits for a short time, she remained active athletically. In February 1999, Fujita and all his followers were hired by Globaly, a commodity futures firm.

paragraph: Noguchi began 1999 by winning individual and team gold at the Asian Cross Country Championships, but after winning the Inuyama half marathon, she was inspired to concentrate her efforts on that event. She was ranked second in the world that year, and in 2001 she won in the all-Japan corporate league. With a string of victories, she became known as "Queen of the Half Marathon." Continuing through the Miyazaki Women's Road Race competition in January 2004, she competed in 24 half marathons and won 14 of them. Only twice was she beaten by another Japanese athlete.

paragraph: In March 2002 she entered her first full marathon, the Nagoya International Women's Marathon, and won. In January 2003 she won the Osaka International Women's Marathon with a time of 2 hours 21 minutes 18 seconds, the second-fastest on record for Japan. She also won a silver medal in the World Championships in Paris that year.

paragraph: In 2005, as Globaly closed futures trade department and athletic team, Fujita and all his followers moved to Sysmex, a medical instruments manufacturer, in December.

paragraph: Section::::2004 Olympic champion.

paragraph: On 22 August 2004 Noguchi won the marathon in the 2004 Athens Olympics, against a field which included world record holder Paula Radcliffe of Great Britain, and the 2003 world champion Catherine Ndereba of Kenya. The race over the Classic course began with temperatures exceeding 95 degrees (35 °C). A leading pack of 12 stayed together through halfway in 1 hour 14 minutes. Noguchi made her move on the tough uphill section between the and marks. When she reached the 30-kilometer sign, after running the previous 5 kilometers in just under 17 minutes, she had a 26-second lead on Elfenesh Alemu of Ethiopia and a 32-second lead on Radcliffe. Heading into the streets of downtown Athens, Noguchi held off Catherine Ndereba, who closed the gap over the final 5 kilometers but could not make up the difference. Noguchi won in 2 hours 26 minutes 20 seconds. Ndereba finished 12 seconds behind Noguchi. Deena Kastor of the United States took the bronze at 2:27:20.

paragraph: Section::::Records at Berlin.

paragraph: On September 25, 2005 Noguchi won the Berlin Marathon, which was her first big competition since winning the gold medal in Athens more than a year earlier. Four years earlier, the Berlin Marathon was won by Naoko Takahashi, the Japanese runner who took the Olympic gold medal in Sydney in 2000. Takahashi's remarkable win in 2001 in Berlin marked the first time in history that a woman ran sub-2:20, clocking in at 2 hours, 19 minutes and 46 seconds. Noguchi improved on Takahashi's time by more than half a minute, winning the 2005 Marathon in 2:19:12. Noguchi's time set three new records: the Berlin Marathon course record, the Japanese record, and the Asian record.

paragraph: After the victory, she declared:

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- marathoninfo

description: Japanese marathon runner and Olympic champion

wikidata_label: Mizuki Noguchi

wikipedia_title: Mizuki Noguchi