Best of the Best in Track and Field (Women of Sports)
Publisher: Tandem Library
Published: March 2001
Language: eng
Format: School & Library Binding
Number of pages: 64
ISBN-13: 9780613166034
Subjects: Biography & Autobiography - General; Girls & Women; Sports & Recreation - Track & Field; Sports & Recreation - Soccer; Juvenile Nonfiction; Children's Books/Ages 9-12 Nonfiction; Biography; Juvenile literature; Track and field athletes; Track-athletics for women; Women track and field athletes; Children: Grades 4-6
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.