May 6 was the 50th anniversary of Roger Bannister’s first sub-4 minute mile, so it seems fitting to have a little one mile trivia feature this month. Let’s see how many of these questions you can get right.

1. CU Standout Mark Scrutton won the 1983 Bolder Boulder. Can you name another CU student who has won the race
2. Which woman has won the most Bolder Boulders?
3. Who is the only New Zealader to win the race?
4. Americans won the first three Bolders, both in the men’s and women’s division. Who was the first male winner from another country?
5. The first time a Kenyan won the BB was in 1991, when the winners in both the men’s and women’s division were women. Who were they?
6. Who was the only CSU graduate to win the race?
7. Who was the first Olympic medalist to win a BB?
8. A Michigan alumni won the 1984 men’s race. Who was he?
9. Rodolfo Gomez was the first Mexican to win the Bolder Boulder. Who was the second?
10. In the 1990s the men’s race was dominated by Mexicans and Kenyans. Only once, in 1999, did a runner from another country win. Who was he and what country is he from?

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