Sentence examples for strides behind from inspiring English sources

Lagat fell two strides behind.

With 70 meters to run, she was still three strides behind Montsho.

A few loping strides behind, Pete Sampras emerged in his trademark baggy white shorts to meet the standing ovation awaiting both of them.

But his time of 46.19 was more than a second slower than his best time and left him five long strides behind Jermaine Gonzales of Jamaica, who won the heat.

This race, though, did give me hope that Geoffrey Kamworor, the twenty-two-year-old Kenyan, who finished just a few strides behind, will beat Farah in the Olympics next year.

After winning the 100 and 200 at the 1988 Summer Games in Seoul, South Korea, Florence Griffith Joyner took the baton for the anchor leg of the 1,600-meter 1,600-meter strelay behind a Russian quarthreeiler and made up two strides, behinde could never pull ahead.

Now he was lurking a stride behind Cragg.

Ahmed entered the final lap first, with Lagat a stride behind in 2 59.8.

Tune almost always ran a stride behind Biktimirova until the last mile, when the sparring began.

Bonds, a stride behind Snow, was thrown out at the plate on a relay throw by second baseman Julius Matos.

A stride behind Barrow, defensive tackle Keith Hamilton turned his back to the field, unable and unwilling to watch.