Buddy nobles

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Buddy Edelen (actually Leonard Graves Edelen ; born September 22, 1937 in Harrodsburg , Kentucky , † February 19, 1997 in Tulsa ) was an American marathon runner .

career

After studying on a partial scholarship at the University of Minnesota , he moved to Chelmsford , England, where he worked as a teacher and was trained by his compatriot Fred Wilt , who at the time collected and published the world's training systems. Edelens training usually consisted of more than 200 km per week.

On May 6, 1960, he was the first American to stay below the 30-minute mark in Sunnyvale over 10,000 meters with 29: 58.9 minutes. In 1962 he became English champion in the track run over ten miles (16.093 m) and was ninth in the Polytechnic Marathon on his debut over the 42.195 km distance . He then started out of competition at the Welsh Marathon Championship. With 2:22:32 h he had almost a quarter of an hour ahead of the official winner. After finishing second at the Košice Marathon , he set a US record in fourth at the Fukuoka Marathon with 2:18:57 h.

The following year he first won the Athens Marathon and then triumphed in the Polytechnic Marathon with the world's fastest time of 2:14:28 h. He stayed 48 seconds below the record that the Japanese Tōru Terasawa had set four months earlier. In autumn he set a course record in Košice with 2:15:10, which remained until 1978.

In 1964 he became US champion by winning the Yonkers Marathon and qualified for the Olympic Games in Tokyo . In extreme heat, he covered the hilly course in 2:24:25 h and was almost 20 minutes ahead of second, the Austrian Adolf Gruber . Although Edelen had developed sciatica , which affected the rest of his athletic career, he came in sixth place in the Olympic race.

At the Polytechnic Marathon in 1965 he was third with 2:14:34, beaten only by Terasawa and his compatriot Morio Shigematsu , who ran the world best with 2:12:00.

In 1967 he retired from competitive sports. He then worked as a psychology teacher at Adams State College and as a state employee in Tulsa. At the age of 59 he succumbed to cancer .

Buddy Edelen started for the Hadleigh Olympians.

Personal bests

  • 10,000 m: 29: 53.0 min, April 13, 1963, London
  • Marathon: 2:14:28 h, June 15, 1963, Chiswick

literature

  • Frank Murphy: A Cold Clear Day. The Athletic Biography of Buddy Edelen. Wind Sprint Press, 1992, ISBN 096292430X
    • Reviewed by Julie Threlkeld, Races Like a Girl, January 3, 2009

Web links

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Arnd Krüger : Many roads lead to Olympia. The changes in training systems for medium and long distance runners (1850–1997). In: Norbert Gissel (Hrsg.): Sporting performance in change. Czwalina, Hamburg 1998, ISBN 3-88020-322-9 , pp. 41-56
  2. ^ British Pathé: International Marathon Won by American . 1963 (video)
personal data
SURNAME Nobles, buddy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Edelen, Leonard Graves (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American marathon runner
DATE OF BIRTH September 22, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Harrodsburg , Kentucky
DATE OF DEATH February 19, 1997
Place of death Tulsa