Agency:.Produced by the National Film Board of Canada in cooperation with the Canadian Fitness and Amateur Sport Branch.

Director, Jean-Claude Labrecque ; photography, Jean-Claude Labrecque ; producer, Jacques Bobet ; sound, Yves Daoust ; editing, Alain Sauvé ; sound editing, Gilles St-Onge ; re-recording, Jean-Pierre Joutel ; animation, Francine Desbiens ; music, André Gagnon.

Recorded 1978.

The Marathon has become a symbol of the Olympics. A modern-day addition to the Games, it commemorates the soldier who ran cross-country, in 490 B.C., to announce the Greek victory at Marathon and then died. Excellent film footage of the 1976 Olympic Marathon documents the physical demands of the race. Its emotional counterpart is related by Cierpinski, the event's 1976 gold medalist. This emotion-charged film proves that although the winner of the Decathlon is the best all-round athlete, the "toughest" is the winner of the Marathon.

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Award of Merit, 1981

Description based on online resource; title from title screen (National Film Board of Canada, viewed 2023-08-10).