Best Of The Best/Track & Field (Women of Sports)
Publisher: Millbrook Press
Published: March 1, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 64
ISBN-13: 9780761304463
Subjects: Sports & Recreation - Soccer; Track-athletics for women; Juvenile Nonfiction; Children's Books/Ages 9-12 Nonfiction; Children's 9-12 - Sports / Recreation / Outdoors; Track and field athletes; Children: Grades 4-6; Sports & Recreation - Track & Field; Juvenile literature; Girls & Women; Juvenile Nonfiction / Biography & Autobiography / Sports & Recreation; Women track and field athletes; Biography & Autobiography - Sports & Recreation; Biography
First sentence: On March 25, 1878, a young woman named Maria Wiinikainen ran across frozen Lake Peuranka in Finland, covering a distance of 355 Swedish cubits (about 218 meters) in 48 seconds.