Dick Buerkle

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Dick Buerkle, 1978

Richard Dick Thomas Buerkle (born September 3, 1947 in Rochester , New York , † June 22, 2020 in Atlanta , Georgia ) was an American Olympic athlete and indoor world record holder over a mile .

Life

In the Catholic private school Aquinas Institute , Buerkle was a mediocre middle-class. On account of his parents he went to Villanova University in 1966 , where he only received a scholarship as a runner after two and a half years and graduated in 1970 with Spanish as a major. In Villanova he trained under the guidance of Jumbo Elliott , who prepared him more for the indoor than the outdoor season with a variety of intensive speed runs and extensive interval training on an indoor wooden track outdoors (from December). In 1969 he improved the Villanova record over 2 miles to 8: 46.2 minutes. Even after college, Buerkle stayed with Jumbo Elliott. He qualified for the 1976 and 1980 Olympic Games for de 5000 meters. In 1976 he did not survive the advance, in 1980 the US team was forced by President Jimmy Carter to boycott the Olympic Games in Moscow . Buerkle ran six times the mile under 4 minutes and on January 13, 1978 undercut the indoor world record with 3: 54.9 minutes. After completing his athletic career, he moved to Atlanta in 1981, where he worked as a high school Spanish teacher and trainer until his retirement in 2014 and died in June 2020 of complications from a neurodegenerative disease.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of March 3, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ 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.
  3. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento from April 25, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of January 2, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of January 2, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Buerkle, Dick
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Buerkle, Richard Thomas (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American long distance runner
DATE OF BIRTH September 3, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Rochester , New York
DATE OF DEATH June 22, 2020
Place of death Atlanta , Georgia