Sentence examples for race contested from inspiring English sources
Notable long-distance races include the Sella Descent, a 16.5-km (10-mile) race contested annually from 1931 in northern Spain; and the Liffey Descent, a 28.2-km (17.5-mile) race contested annually from 1959 in Ireland.
It is a step into an architectural arms race, contested by teams seeking any edge in the pursuit of free agents, the link between ventilation systems and victories.
The final time for the one-mile race contested over a good track was 1 52, four-fifths of a second off the Hambletonian record.
Vonn fell in the super-G of the Alpine world championships, a race contested one year and two days before the scheduled start of the Sochi Olympics in Russia.
But the event has changed dramatically in the intervening years, and the renamed Volvo is now a flatout race contested in light, radical 60-footers, as opposed to an offshore adventure.
The Kent racetrack will host the time trial events for races on standard bikes, hand cycles and, for athletes who have difficulty with balance, tricycles – a race contested by both men and women.
Seaplanes, with an unlimited takeoff run, were not so constrained, and the Schneider races, contested by national teams with government backing, were particularly influential in pushing speeds upward.
It is turning into quite a meeting for the Europeans and the British in particular, with four winners from four races contested so far.
This is much less of a problem for something like Senate races, because the historical data is much more robust: about 35 races contested once every other year, as opposed to just one every four years.
There will be $24 million in purses doled out and 17 Grade I races contested — including the meet's centerpiece, the $1 million Travers, known as the Midsummer Derby, for 3-year-olds on Aug. 27.
From 1980 to 2012, for instance, the eventual nominee in 8 of the 14 Democratic and Republican nomination races contested (that is, in which there was more than one candidate), was the early front-runner by both of these two measures.
