4. Complete the text with the words.

century, decades, hours, kilometres, months, seconds, Thousands, years

An AMAZING achievement

In 1912, the Japanese runner Shizo Kanakuri ran in the marathon at the Stockholm Olympics in Sweden. He was 20 at the time.

It was a hot day and after 27 kilometres he became ill and stopped. It was a terrible moment for Kanakuri because he was one of the favourites in the race. He didn’t finish the race.

In 1967, Swedish television asked Kanakuri to come back to Sweden and finish the marathon. Kanakuri said ‘yes’ and after five and a half (1) ... he returned to Sweden.

He was now 75 (2) ... old. (3) ... of people watched Kanakuri finish the marathon. His time was 54 years, 8 (4) ..., 6 days, 5 (5) ..., 32 minutes and 20.3 (6) ...! It was the slowest marathon in history, but perhaps one of the best sporting achievements of the 20th (7) ...