Bob Kennedy

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Bob Kennedy (actually Robert Owen Kennedy Jr .; born August 18, 1970 in Bloomington , Indiana ) is a retired American long-distance runner .

At the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo in 1991 and at the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona, ​​he was twelfth over 5000 m . Over the same distance, he was eliminated at the 1993 World Championships in Stuttgart in the preliminary run and was seventh at the 1995 World Championships in Gothenburg.

In 1996 he was sixth at the Olympic Games in Atlanta over 5000 m and shortly thereafter remained the first non-African to stay under the 13-minute mark over this distance. A seventh place over 5000 m at the 1997 World Championships in Athens was followed by a ninth place at the 1999 World Championships in Seville.

In the spring of 2000, he suffered a vertebral injury in a car accident that prevented him from getting in shape in time to qualify for the Sydney Olympics .

The following year he was twelfth at the World Cross Country Championships and won the bronze medal with the US team, but was then thrown back by anemia and hypothyroidism and therefore missed the 2001 World Championships . In 2004 he did not reach the goal in the US eliminations for the Olympic Games in Athens over 10,000 m due to complaints of the Achilles tendon . He also had to give up at the New York City Marathon that year for the same reason. In 2006 he then announced his retirement from competitive sports.

He was four times US champion over 5000 m (1995–1997, 2001) and twice in cross country (1992, 2004).

Bob Kennedy is 1.83 meters tall and weighed 66 kg at competition times. He is a graduate of Indiana University . In 2000, he and former road runner Ashley Johnson opened the running company in Indianapolis . In 2005 he and his wife Melina became parents of twins.

Personal best

  • 1500 m : 3: 38.32 min, June 25, 1991, Hengelo
  • 1 mile : 3: 56.21 min, June 4, 1994, Eugene
  • 2000 m : 4: 59.9 min, August 10, 1996, Monaco
  • 3000 m : 7: 30.84 min, August 8, 1998, Monaco (current North American record; as of March 2010)
  • 5000 m: 12: 58.21 min, August 14, 1996, Zurich (former North American record)
  • 10,000 m: 27: 37.45 min, April 30, 2004, Palo Alto

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Footnotes

  1. ^ The Running Company: About us ( Memento from September 15, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Kennedy, Bob
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kennedy Jr., Robert Owen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American long distance runner
DATE OF BIRTH 18th August 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH Bloomington (Indiana)