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Kristof Beyens
Kristof Beyens (born 13 July 1983 in Herentals) is a Belgian Sprint (running), sprint Track and field athletics, athlete, who specialises in the 100 metres, 100 and 200 metres. His personal best time over 200 metres is 20.44 s, achieved in Osaka during the 2007 World Championships in Athletics, World Championships. Beyens finished fourth in the 200 metres final at the 2006 European Athletics Championships in Gothenburg. In the same year, he was awarded the Gouden Spike. He also competed in the 2005 World Championships in Athletics, 2005 World Athletics Championships in the same event, reaching the second round. Beyens represented Belgium at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. He competed at the 200 metres and placed third in his first round heat after Rondel Sorrillo and Usain Bolt in a time of 20.69 seconds. He improved his time in the second round to 20.50 seconds and placed third again, this time behind Brendan Christian and Churandy Martina. He ran his semi final race in 20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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9 (nine) is the natural number following and preceding . Evolution of the Arabic digit In the Brahmi numerals, beginning, various Indians wrote a digit 9 similar in shape to the modern closing question mark without the bottom dot. The Kshatrapa, Andhra and Gupta started curving the bottom vertical line coming up with a -look-alike. The Nagari continued the bottom stroke to make a circle and enclose the 3-look-alike, in much the same way that the sign @ encircles a lowercase ''a''. As time went on, the enclosing circle became bigger and its line continued beyond the circle downwards, as the 3-look-alike became smaller. Soon, all that was left of the 3-look-alike was a squiggle. The Arabs simply connected that squiggle to the downward stroke at the middle and subsequent European change was purely cosmetic. While the shape of the glyph for the digit 9 has an Ascender (typography), ascender in most modern typefaces, in typefaces with text figures the character usually has a desc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
