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cinder track
noun
- a track covered with small cinders, for use in running races.
cinder track
noun
- a racetrack covered with fine cinders
Word History and Origins
Origin of cinder track1
Example Sentences
That record was set on a cinder track, considered the best surface at the time.
No human in history achieved the feat until May 6, 1954, when Roger Bannister, a British medical student, ran the distance in 3:59.4 on a cinder track in Oxford, England.
These were the first Olympics broadcast live using satellites and the last to be run on a cinder track; a bridge between older Olympics and the modern.
And the last to be run on a cinder track; a bridge between older Olympics and the modern.
Bank was dismissed a few days after for shouting out over the staid Palmer as Mills sprinted the final 80 yards on the cinder track, the last time that surface was used at the Olympics.
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