Alberto Salazar

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Alberto Salazar athletics

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Alberto Salazar (2008)

nation United StatesUnited States United States
birthday 7th August 1958 (age 62)
place of birth Havana ,  Cuba
job Trainer
Career
Best performance 5000 m: 13: 11.93 min
10,000 m: 27: 25.61 min
Marathon: 2:09:21 h
status blocked
Medal table
Cross Country World Championship 0 × gold 1 × silver 0 × bronze
IAAF logo World Cross Country Championships
silver Rome 1982 singles
last change: October 11, 2019

Alberto Salazar (born August 7, 1958 in Havana , Cuba ) is a former American long-distance runner who celebrated his greatest successes in the early 1980s and is now a coach. He was the head coach of the Nike Oregon Project until his four-year doping ban in 2019 , which was discontinued for this reason.

Career

As an athlete

He won the New York City Marathon three times in a row (1980 to 1982) and set US records on the track over 5000 m (13: 11.93 min on July 6, 1982 in Oslo) and 10,000 m (27: 25.61 min on June 26, 1982 in Oslo). In 1982 he was second and in 1983 fourth at the World Cross Country Championships .

At the New York City Marathon in 1981, Salazar supposedly set a new world record in 2:08:13. However, during the final measurement it was found that the distance was too short by 148 meters, which corresponds to about half a minute of running time.

His victory at the 1982 Boston Marathon was spectacular , when he won the sprint two seconds ahead of Dick Beardsley and collapsed dehydrated at the finish . With his time of 2:08:52 h, he is still the third fastest American today.

Salazar at the 1983 Rotterdam Marathon

He was considered a favorite for the marathon at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles , but only ended up in a disappointing 15th place.

Salazar was not a natural talent, but made up for it with extreme hard work training, which went to total exhaustion. However, his health suffered as a result. In 1977 he was so exhausted at the Falmouth Road Race that he was put in a bathtub full of ice with heatstroke and received the sacraments of the death from a priest.

From the mid-1980s onwards he had health problems, his immune system collapsed and he gave up running at times. In 1994 there was an impressive comeback for him when he won the Comrades Marathon  - the world's largest ultra marathon over almost 90 kilometers - in South Africa .

Trainer of the Nike Oregon Project

Alberto Salazar worked as the head coach for the Nike Oregon Project . Mo Farah and Galen Rupp , who won gold and silver over 10,000 m at the 2012 Summer Olympics and Farah also won gold over 5,000 m, trained with him. His protégés also included the Ethiopian Yomif Kejelcha and the Dutch Sifan Hassan , World Champion in Doha 2019 . The Oregon Project also included the German Konstanze Klosterhalfen and the American Donavan Brazier , who are coached by Salazar's assistant trainer Pete Julian . The US 1,500 m Olympic champion Matthew Centrowitz left the Nike Oregon Project in the meantime.

The Salazar training included training volumes of 200 km / week, which are largely completed aerobically . This also includes the traditional long jog on Sunday mornings, for him in the form of a marathon run (on soft paths) in about 2:30 hours.

Doping ban

Because of doping violations of the 61-year-old in 2019 was banned by the US Anti-Doping Agency for four years. In the same period of prohibition of the now defunct came Nike Oregon Project cooperating endocrinologist Jeffrey Brown, who many athletes Salazar had treated. Salazar announced that he would appeal the judgment. The US long-distance runner Kara Goucher had previously accused him of urging her to take the thyroid hormone thyroxine , which is not on the doping list. The International Court of Justice for Sports (CAS) announced in early June 2020 that Salazar will be heard by the CAS from November 8th to 16th, Salazar and Brown had appealed their sentences.

More allegations

Mary Cain made serious allegations against Salazar in November 2019. Salazar systematically urged her to lose weight and forced her to take birth control pills and diuretics . As a result, she suffered five broken bones, her menstrual cycle was suspended for three years, and eventually she thought about suicide . Salazar's former assistant coach Steve Magness confirmed the allegations.

Web links

Commons : Alberto Salazar  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Klosterhalfen remains in the USA. In: sport1.de. April 28, 2019. Retrieved April 28, 2019 .
  2. ↑ a b Salazar doping violations: Klosterhalfen head coach is banned for a long time . In: n-tv.de, October 1, 2019 (accessed October 2, 2019).
  3. ↑ Arnd Krüger : Many roads lead to Olympia. The changes in training systems for medium and long distance runners (1850–1997) . In: N. Gissel (Hrsg.): Sporting performance in change . Czwalina, Hamburg 1998, pp. 41-56.
  4. ^ Mo Farah's Typical Weekly Training Schedule. In: trainingarunner.com. October 9, 2014, archived from the original ; accessed on September 20, 2016 (English).
  5. ↑ Athletics trainer Salazar banned for four years (September 30, 2019)
  6. ↑ Alexandra Dersch / dpa: Flash News of the Day - Alberto Salazar doping hearing in front of the CAS in November , notes, on: Leichtathletik.de, June 3, 2020, accessed June 3, 2020
  7. ^ Salazar system - Five broken bones and suicidal thoughts . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . November 8, 2019
  8. ↑ Mary Cain charges Nike Oregon Project . In: Spiegel Online . November 8, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Salazar, Alberto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American long distance runner
DATE OF BIRTH 7th August 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Havana , Cuba