cinder track
Example Sentences
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My friends and I were among the kids who occasionally did just that, and who, for fun, raced each other on that cinder track.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026
That record was set on a cinder track, considered the best surface at the time.
From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2024
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.
From New York Times ● Jan. 30, 2022
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.
From Washington Times ● Jul. 29, 2021
In Great Britain the hurdles are fixed and the race is run on grass; in America the hurdles, although of the same height, are not fixed, and the races are run on the cinder track.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 8 "Hudson River" to "Hurstmonceaux" by Various
