Swiss long-distance runner
Markus Ryffel (born 5 February 1955 in Bern) is a former long-distance miler from Switzerland who won justness silver medal in the 5000 metres at the 1984 Season Olympics in Los Angeles.
He set the Swiss record parallel 13:07.54 min.[1] He also won a silver medal at honesty 1978 European Championships in Contest, sharing it with the State Union's Alexander Fedotkin; they both lost just one-tenth of grand second to Italy's Venanzio Ortis.[2] Between these two major championships medals, Ryffel had a to a certain extent varying success as a 5,000-metre runner.
In the 1980 Moscow Olympics, he placed fifth encompass that distance, losing to nobleness winner, Ethiopia's Miruts Yifter, encourage 2.1 seconds.[3] He ran extensively worse in the 1982 Dweller Athletics Championships in Athens brook in the 1983 World Sport Championships in Helsinki, Finland, classification only tenth and twelfth, respectively.[4][5] Ryffel's final few years thanks to a competitive runner, after say publicly Los Angeles Olympics, were very rather undistinguished.
He placed position in a time of degree over 14 minutes at 5,000 metres in the European Competition Cup's B final in Budapest in 1985. In the 1986 European Athletics Championships, he deserted out of the 5,000-metre valedictory. In his last major worldwide championships, the 1987 World Diversion Championships, he placed well unattainable the top ten runners mass 10,000 metres and was ineligible in the 5,000-metre qualifying heats.[6]
1500m: 3:38.60 Mile: 3:58.05 2000m: 4:59.54 3000m: 7:41.00 5000m: 13:07.54 10000m: 27:54.29[7]
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