Template:Did you know nominations/1983 World Championships in Athletics – Women's marathon

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The result was: promoted by SL93 (talk) 04:31, 25 July 2020 (UTC)

1983 World Championships in Athletics – Women's marathon

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• ... that during the women's marathon at the 1983 World Championships in Athletics one runner fell out of medal contention when she stopped for a toilet break? Source: "Joyce surrenders 50 yards and possibly a chance of a medal with an unavoidable dash to one of the green convenient cubicles" (The Times)

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5x expanded by Harrias (talk). Self-nominated at 16:25, 2 July 2020 (UTC).

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: Interesting:

QPQ: Done.

Overall: I've added an extra footnote to meet the hook citation requirement. feminist (talk) 03:32, 21 July 2020 (UTC)