She competed in a number of road races, but there was no track competition for her in Mozambique.

"I was 9 years old when I had my first track competition," Jackie said.

Secondly, European cities are more likely to take an active role in turning a track competition into a major happening.

The Albemarle track team, in 2011, sent several relay teams to the national track competition.

After his 1924 accident, Guinness withdrew from record-breaking as well as track competition.

Many clubs include Adult events in their standard track competitions.

In 1974, he also won the Grand Prix de Copenhagen, a major international track competition of those years.

After this, he retired from track competition altogether.

He failed to advance out of the semifinals, but recorded a time of 10.06 seconds: a strong performance after two years away from track competition.

Continuing to focus on track running, she ran at her first senior global track competition in 2003.