Looks at the individual training strategies and motivation of top world marathon runner Robert de Castella of Australia and Alberto Salazar of the USA. Follows each of them as they fight it out in the 1982 Rotterdam marathon, highlighting the incredible winning performance by de Castella, who after having run twenty-five miles at a rate of five minutes per mile, covered the last mile in a staggering four minutes and thirty-two seconds.
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Collection
In ACMI's collection
Credits
Collection metadata
ACMI Identifier
015820
Language
English
Subject categories
Documentary → Documentary films - Australia
Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Motivation (Psychology)
Hobbies, Recreation & Sport → Athletes
Hobbies, Recreation & Sport → De Castella, Robert
Hobbies, Recreation & Sport → Marathon running
Hobbies, Recreation & Sport → Salazar, Alberto
Sound/audio
Sound
Colour
Colour
Holdings
Betamax; Access Print (Section 1)
16mm film; Access Print (Section 1)
VHS; Access Print (Section 1)
MOV file ProRes4444; Digital Preservation Master - overscan
MPEG-4 Digital File; ACMI Digital Access Copy - overscan