Gil Dodds

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Gil Dodds

Gil Dodds (actually Gilbert Lothair Dodds; born June 23, 1918 in Nocatur , Kansas , † February 3, 1977 in St. Charles , Illinois ) was an American middle-distance runner .

Life

Dodds was born one of five children in a parish household. His mother was from Germany . The family soon moved to Falls City , where his father pastored the fraternal ward and Gil attended high school. There he was trained by former middle-distance runner Lloyd Hahn . Dodds didn't lose a single race in high school. In 1935 he ran 880 yards and a mile youth records for the state of Nebraska . He was a Nebraska High School Master in 1935, 1936, and 1937. Since he suffered a hernia while playing tennis , he always had to wear a corset as a support during exercise . He attended Ashland University (BA in 1941), Gordon Divinity School and Wheaton College , from which he graduated with an MA in theology. In college, he won 39 races in a row.

On November 25, 1940 Dodds won his first national championship in cross-country running the NCAA . On July 24, 1943, he ran in Cambridge in second place behind the Swedish world record holder Gunder Hägg with a US record of 4: 06.5 minutes over the mile. The following year, on March 11th, he set an indoor world fastest time over the mile in Madison Square Garden ( New York City ) with 4: 07.3 minutes and improved this mark to 4: 06.4 minutes on March 18 in Chicago .

In 1945 he became a full-time pastor. In 1947 he began again with systematic training to qualify for the 1948 Olympic Games in London. He again improved the indoor world record over a mile (4: 05.3 min). A week before the US Olympic Trials, however, he fell ill with mumps and was unable to start.

He was US champion over 1,500 m (1942, 1943, 1948) and US indoor champion over a mile (1942, 1944, 1947) three times .

He was employed by Youth for Christ from 1945 to 1959 as a youth minister, was also the track and field and cross-country trainer of Wheaton College and studied from 1951 to 1954 education with a focus on counseling and physical education at Northwestern University . Here he passed another MA exam. 1959-1964 he was counselor at the Naperville Community High School and assistant coach in athletics and 1964-1977 administrative director of the college in Huntington ( Indiana ).

Dodds was awarded the James E. Sullivan Award in 1943, inducted into the Nebraska High School Sports Hall of Fame in 1997, and the Ashland County Sports Hall of Fame in 2016 . In 2005 he was named to the list of Nebraska's best athletes of all time .

Personal bests

  • 1500 m: 3: 48.5 min, July 24, 1943, Cambridge (intermediate time)
  • 1 mile: 4: 06.1 min, July 31, 1943, Berea

literature

Web links

  • Gil Dodds in the trackfield.brinkster.net database (English)

Footnotes

  1. ↑ a b c Biography - Gil Dodds . HickokSports.com. September 23, 2008. Archived from the original on February 29, 2012. Retrieved on December 2, 2016.
  2. ^ A b Mel Larson: Gil Dodds: The Flying Parson. The Evangelical Beacon, Chicago 1945, p. 16
  3. ↑ a b c Gil Dodds, Falls City . Nebraska High School Sports Hall of Fame. 1997. Archived from the original on December 20, 2016. Retrieved on December 2, 2016.
  4. ^ Mel Larson: Gil Dodds: The Flying Parson. The Evangelical Beacon, Chicago 1945, p. 77
  5. ↑ a b c Rochester Runners Report . Rochester Runners, New Hampshire. December 2003. Archived from the original on July 15, 2011. Retrieved on December 2, 2016.
  6. ↑ http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=95344887 auf. 2nd December 2016
  7. ^ Arnd Krüger : American sport between isolationism and internationalism. In: competitive sport. 1/2, 1988, pp. 43-50 ( 1st part , 2nd part )
  8. ^ Mel Larson: Gil Dodds: The Flying Parson. The Evangelical Beacon, Chicago 1945, p. 7
  9. ↑ http://www.ashlandcosportshof.org/Gil_Dodds.html on . 2nd December 2016
  10. ↑ http://www.dataomaha.com/neb100/player/20 on . 2nd December 2016
personal data
SURNAME Dodds, Gil
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dodds, Gilbert Lothair
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American middle distance runner
DATE OF BIRTH June 23, 1918
PLACE OF BIRTH Nocatur , Kansas
DATE OF DEATH 3rd February 1977
Place of death St. Charles , Illinois