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Sporting Witness Episodes

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    Ron Grant: First man to run around Australia

    In 1983, ultra-runner Ron Grant became the first person to run around Australia

  2. The ice hockey team sponsored by Colonel Gaddafi

    In 1987, Libyan dictator Colonel Gaddafi sponsored German ice hockey team ECD Iserlohn

  3. Maria Costello: the record-breaking female motorcyclist

    In 2005, Maria Costello became the fastest woman ever round the Isle of Man TT course

  4. Germany鈥檚 first black national footballer

    Footballer Erwin Kostedde talks about how racism affected his career

  5. Fighting Norway's boxing ban

    In 2014, fighter Cecilia Braekhus helped end Norway鈥檚 33 year ban on professional boxing

  6. Puerto Rico upsets the USA in Olympic basketball

    In 2004, underdogs Puerto Rico beat the USA in one of the biggest upsets in basketball

  7. Magnus Carlsen: 'Mozart of chess'

    In 2014, Magnus Carlsen achieved the highest official rating of any player in history

  8. The Unified Team at the 1992 Olympics

    How former Soviet athletes competed for the first and only time as the Unified Team

  9. Battle of the Surfaces

    Rafael Nadal takes on Roger Federer on a tennis court made of half grass and half clay

  10. First international for Netherlands women's football

    Dutch footballer Ellen Popeyus was 16 when she played for her country in the first match

  11. The football fans who built their own stadium

    When Union Berlin had financial problems, their fans volunteered to renovate the stadium

  12. Brojen Das: Bangladesh's Channel swimming champ

    In 1961, Brojen Das broke the world record for swimming from France to England

  13. Agnes Keleti: The world's oldest living Olympian

    Hungarian Agnes Keleti is the world's oldest living Olympian at 103

  14. The drone that started a riot

    How a politically charged match between Serbia and Albania descended into violent chaos

  15. The first African Cup of Champions

    In 1964, the first ever African Cup of Champions took place in Ghana

  16. Brian McKechnie: New Zealand's double international sportsman

    Brian McKechnie has been in New Zealand teams for both international rugby and cricket

  17. The Iron Ladies

    How a Thai men鈥檚 volleyball team made up of gay and trans athletes won a championship

  18. Formula E: The world鈥檚 first electric car championship

    Nelson Piquet Jr competed in the first Formula E race in 2014, featuring 20 electric cars

  19. The invention of Padel

    In 1969, Enrique and Viviana Corcuera created Padel while on holiday

  20. The Gambia's first Paralympic Games

    In 2012, The Gambia made their first appearance at the Paralympic Games

  21. Winning gold at the first Paralympics

    In 1960, the first Paralympic Games took place

  22. The most successful Paralympian in history

    Trischa Zorn-Hudson has won 55 Paralympic medals

  23. Winning Olympic gold in a borrowed boat

    How Denmark's 49er sailing team won gold by borrowing the Croatian team's boat

  24. Bringing breaking to the world stage

    Breaking debuts as an Olympic sport in Paris

  25. Greek sprinters scandal at the Athens Olympics

    In 2004, a doping scandal broke involving two of the host nation's biggest stars

  26. Cyprus's first Olympic medal

    How a young sailor from Cyprus achieved success in the 2012 Olympics

  27. Conchita Martinez: The woman who stopped Navratilova

    In 1994, the 22-year-old Spanish tennis star won Wimbledon

  28. The murder of Andres Escobar

    In 1994, the footballer was shot dead following Colombia's exit from the World Cup

  29. The tennis champion who escaped the Nazis

    Liesl Herbst and her daughter Dorli played together at Wimbledon after World War Two

  30. Muhammad Ali started MMA

    Muhammad Ali鈥檚 controversial fight against professional wrestler Antonio Inoki in 1976

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