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Ronald William Clarke, AO, MBE (21 February 1937 – 17 June 2015) was an Australian athlete, writer, and the Mayor of the Gold Coast from 2004 to 2012. He was one of the best-known middle- and long-distance runners in the 1960s, notable for setting seventeen world records .
Ronald Lyle Clark, Jr. (born October 24, 1972) is an American educator and reality television personality. He has taught in North Carolina and New York City; later in life, he founded the Ron Clark Academy in Atlanta, Georgia.
Jun 17, 2015 · The IAAF mourns the death of the famed distance runner Ron Clarke, who has died at the age of 78. Clarke died in a Gold Coast hospital after a short illness on Wednesday morning. He was 78.
Jun 17, 2015 · The IAAF mourns the death of the famed distance runner Ron Clarke, who has died at the age of 78. Clarke died in a Gold Coast hospital after a short illness on Wednesday morning. He was 78.
Dec 18, 2023 · It was by accident, rather than design, that Ron Clarke first added his name to the great pantheon of 10,000m world record breakers. Sixty years ago today, on the evening of 18 December 1963, the princely Australian front runner “stopped dead on the track”, as he put it, after reaching the six-mile mark inside world record time in the ...
Ron Clarke was one of the world’s greatest distance runners, etching his name into Australian sporting history with his record-breaking achievements, his fierce determination and his grace and humility on and off the track.
Jun 17, 2015 · One of the greats of Australian athletics, Ron Clarke, has died on the Gold Coast this morning, aged 78. Clarke set 17 world records — plus a host of marks that were world best but never recorded formally as records — but he is forever remembered for what he failed to achieve, an Olympic gold medal.
Jun 17, 2015 · Australian world champion runner and former Gold Coast mayor Ron Clarke has died, city officials said. Clarke became a running legend in the 1950s and 1960s, during which he set...
Jun 17, 2015 · Ron Clarke, an Australian middle- and long-distance runner who broke 17 world records, some by huge margins, in the mid-1960s but never won an Olympic or British Commonwealth gold...
Jun 17, 2015 · GOLD COAST, Australia (AP) — Ron Clarke, one of Australia's greatest distance runners and the man who lit the cauldron at the Melbourne Olympics in 1956, died Wednesday at the age of 78.
