Eamonn Coghlan

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Eamonn Coghlan, St. Patrick's Day 2008

Eamonn Coghlan (born November 24, 1952 in Drimnagh ) is a former Irish middle and long distance runner and former world champion in the 5000 meter run . He was trained by Jumbo Elliott at Villanova University in Philadelphia , who let his middle and long distance runners train on an indoor (wooden) track in the open air in winter and created a deliberate double-peaked periodization through the multitude of tempo runs and indoor races in winter .

Despite his 5,000m world title (the first ever world championship for Ireland), Coghlan's fame is largely based on his dominance in indoor racing. In the 1980s he was considered almost unbeatable in the hall and earned the honorary title of Chairman of the boards. Coghlan won the traditional Wannamaker mile run seven times at the Millrose Games in New York's Madison Square Garden and set four indoor world records on this route. Already in 1979 it impressed with times of 3:55 min and 3: 52.6 min.

On February 20, 1981, it ran in San Diego at 3: 50.6 minutes. On February 27, 1983 in East Rutherford he was the first person in the hall to break the dream limit of 3:50 min with a time of 3: 49.78 min. This record lasted until 1997 when Hicham El Guerrouj ran 3: 48.45 minutes. Coghlan has the second best time ever in the hall to this day (as of February 2009). In 1987, Coghlan also set an indoor world record in 4: 54.07 minutes in the 2000-meter run , which was only improved in 1998 by Haile Gebrselassie .

Coghlan was rarely able to transfer the dominance from indoor races to outdoor races. A fourth place in the 1500-meter run of the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal was his best Olympic result, and he finished second at the European Athletics Championships in Prague in 1978 . Only when he switched to the 5000 m was he able to convert his basic speed into championship successes and won the title at the first World Athletics Championships in Helsinki in 1983 .

Coghlan had an unusually long career. Even beyond 40, he was still on the boards that meant the world to him and in 1994 at the indoor meeting in Boston he was the first over 40-year-old to reach a four-minute mile in 3: 58.15 minutes. He had graduated from Villanova University with a bachelor's degree in business administration , had a political career as a Senator for Ireland, and pursued various business and charity ventures where he contributed his Irish-American relations. In 2008 he was inducted into the Hall of Fame for Irish Sports. He describes his world in an autobiography.

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  1. ↑ 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.
  2. ↑ When the news came, Bono from U2 interrupted his concert in Dublin to announce the news to the fans, http://villanovarunning.blogspot.de/2010/01/rewview-of-eamonn-coghlans-chairman-of.html up 5th March 2017
  3. ↑ http://www.teneoholdings.com/leaders/eamonn_coghlan on . 5th March 2017
  4. ↑ http://www.athleticsireland.ie/fanzone/hall-of-fame/eamonn-coghlan/ auf. 5th March 2017
  5. ↑ EAMONN COGHLAN. Chairman of the Boards, Master of the Mile (with: George Kimball). Red Rock Press, 2008
personal data
SURNAME Coghlan, Eamonn
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Irish athlete (long distance runner)
DATE OF BIRTH November 24, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Drimnagh , Ireland