If you're a world-class runner, you can run 7 or 8 yards.

Many world-class runners were competing, but in terms of the field events the standard was poor.

Although 1986 had 40 world-class runners among the 8,000 participants the times paled in comparison.

This goal evolved from the example of world-class runners.

Flanagan is the daughter of two former world-class runners.

And she could not play tennis and also train to be a world-class runner.

In her early teens, Decker was already recognized as a world-class runner.

She has been a world-class runner since she was 14.

But the field of 30,000 was packed with world-class runners who came to Chicago for the flat, fast course and the $400,000 purse.

"You put her on a track with five world-class runners, she'd think she could beat all of them," Jones said.