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pedestrianism
pedestrianism (pɪˈdɛstrɪənɪz(ə)m) [f. as prec. + -ism.] 1. The practice of travelling on foot, walking; walking as an exercise or athletic performance.1809 Sporting Mag. XXXIV. 162, I do not intend to level the least sarcasm at pedestrianism. 1813 W. Thom (title) Pedestrianism; or, An Account of the...
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Pedestrianism
Pedestrianism was a 19th-century form of competitive walking, often professional and funded by wagering, from which the modern sport of racewalking developed .
18th- and early 19th-century Britain
During the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, pedestrianism, like running or horse racing (equestrianism
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Pedestrian (disambiguation)
Pedestrian or The Pedestrian may also refer to:
Pedestrian, a practitioner of pedestrianism, a 19th-century form of competitive walking
"The Pedestrian
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Centurion (racewalking)
Its name derives from a popular title from those competitors achieving the feat in the 19th century British long-distance walking sport, called Pedestrianism Pedestrianism was to be a popular spectator sport during the 18th and 19th centuries, as equestrianism still is, and bicycle racing became afterwards.
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What does "walk for a wager" mean in "A Fisher of Men"? In "A Fisher of Men" in _Dr. Thorndyke's Case-Book_ by R. Austin Freeman, Dr. Jervis was digging the earth with his friend, while they saw a stranger man coming ...
Competitive walking, known as ‘pedestrianism’, was the forerunner of today’s walking races. Per Wikipedia:
> Pedestrianism was a 19th-century form of competitive walking, often professional and funded by wagering, from which the modern sport
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Frank Hart
Frank Hart may refer to:
Frank Hart (politician) (1860–1945), Australian politician
Frank Hart (athlete) (1857/58–1908), American athlete known for pedestrianism
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Robert Barclay (disambiguation)
Robert Berkeley (disambiguation)
Robert Barclay Allardice (1779–1854), aka Robert Barclay, Scottish sportsman considered one of the founding fathers of pedestrianism
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Ada Anderson
was a British athlete famous for her feats of pedestrianism in the latter half of the 19th century. Career in pedestrianism
Anderson's interest in pedestrianism started in 1877 when she met British champion racewalker William Gale at an event in Cardiff
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Walter Thom
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Thom was the author of a History of Aberdeen (Aberdeen, 1811) and of a treatise on Pedestrianism (Aberdeen, 1813).
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Charles Rowell
Charles Rowell (1852–1909) was an English athlete: a famous runner and celebrated exponent of the sport of pedestrianism race-walking.
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Bertha von Hillern
Biography
At the age of twelve, Von Hillern began to study the science of Pedestrianism, and during her teens, she walked in several matches in Berlin For the next two years, she continued to devote her time to advocating athletic exercises for women, and appearing in public as a Pedestrianism.
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James Glass Bertram
Sporting anecdotes: being anecdotal annals, descriptions, tales and incidents of horse-racing, betting, card-playing, pugilism, gambling, cock-fighting, pedestrianism
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Frank Hart (athlete)
Frank Hart (1856 – 1908) was an American athlete famous as the first African-American world record holder in the 19th century sport of pedestrianism. Though his legacy faded with the loss of interest in pedestrianism as a spectator sport, Hart remains one of the first nationally famous Black athletes
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Kerri Andrews
She chose writers who "actively reflected on their pedestrianism, or who found in their walking something that contributed to their understaning of themselves
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Plennie L. Wingo
He remains the Guinness record holder for "greatest extent of reverse pedestrianism".
Biography
Plennie L. He remains the Guinness record holder for "greatest extent of reverse pedestrianism". His story was told by The Dollop Podcast, episode 493.
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