Glen Mills (athletics coach)

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Glen Mills OJ (born August 14, 1949 ) is a Jamaican athletics coach. He is Usain Bolt's trainer and is currently the most successful sprint trainer from Jamaica .

Life

Mills had been a sprinter at Camperdown High School since he was 13. Not one of the best, he quickly took on duties as a coaching assistant and became a paid coach after graduating from high school. He was very successful and trained a. a. Olympic runner-up Raymond Stewart . With the beginning of the 1970s Mills had several sprinters in the junior national team Jamaica, which he was hired by the association as a junior coach for the juniors. He also attended advanced training courses with a diploma from the training center of the International Olympic Committee in Mexico , at the IAAF Training Center in Puerto Rico and also learned from the best sprinter trainer of the time at Bud Winter . His protégés included Yohan Blake , Aleen Bailey , Xavier Brown , Leroy Reid and Kim Collins . and the Englishman Dwain Chambers after his doping ban. He was Jamaica's national coach from 1987 to 2009.

Bolt's training

Shortly after the Athens 2004 Summer Olympics, Usain Bolt reached out to him and he led him to international success by essentially applying Bud Winter's training for Tommie Smith to his needs, i.e. H. big easy steps with high knee effort to get by with fewer steps than the competition. Bolt trains a lot and intensively. Since the muscle contraction and nerve conduction speed are exhausted in top sprinters, an increase in performance is only possible through the switching in the brain. With larger steps, Bolt needs fewer steps, and the complete symmetry of the legs means that the required switching speed in the brain is optimal anyway.

Mills resigned as national coach in 2009 after leading his athletes to 71 medals at World Championships and 33 at Olympic Games in 22 years and worked for the Racers Track Club from then on . In 2012 he considered his training program to be the best in the world in sprinting.

In June 2009 five Jamaicans were convicted of doping, at least two of whom belonged to the Racers Track Club and were trained by Mills. These were Yohan Blake , Marvin Anderson , Allodin Fothergill , Lansford Spence, and Sheri-Ann Brooks . They had taken the stimulant methylhexanamine , which works like tuaminoheptane , and were banned for three months.

Honors

  • 2008 Trainer of the Year for North and Central America NACAC Coach of the Year 2008
  • 2008 Commander of the Order of Distinction
  • 2014 Order of Jamaica

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b GLEANER EDITORS 'FORUM - Top-class coaches making the difference . Jamaica Gleaner . December 19, 2006. Archived from the original on August 29, 2008. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved August 25, 2008. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.jamaica-gleaner.com
  2. ↑ Tom Fordyce: I was in gutter, admits Chambers . BBC Sports. December 10, 2005. Retrieved August 25, 2008.
  3. ^ In the Jamaican camp . BBC Caribbean. August 11, 2008. Retrieved August 25, 2008.
  4. ↑ http://www.standard.co.uk/sport/finding-bolts-of-lightning-meet-glen-mills-the-coach-nurturing-the-worlds-best-sprinters-6379073.html ; up 22nd August 2016
  5. ↑ LeVaughan Flynn: Usain Bolt and Glen Mills: Long, winding journey to a world record . Sports Jamaica. June 3, 2008. Retrieved August 25, 2008.
  6. ↑ Arnd Krüger : Symmetry as a talent criterion? Competitive Sports 45 (2015) 1, 29; Arnd Krüger: Sprinting ability and information processing capacity of humans, in: The teaching of athletics 30 (1979), No. 44/45.
  7. ↑ Bolt guru Mills ends Jamaica role . BBC Sports (2009-11-06). Retrieved on 2009-11-07.
  8. ↑ http://www.runblogrun.com/2012/09/glenn-mills-the-best-sprint-coach-in-the-world-by-alfons-juck-note-by-larry-eder.html ; up 22nd August 2016
  9. ↑ Usain Bolt says positive drug tests for five Jamaicans is a sad day for the sport on . 22 Aug 2016
  10. ^ Jamaicans given three-month ban . BBC Sports (2009-Sep-14).
  11. ↑ Coach Mills recognized by NACAC for contribution to Bolt's triumphs ( Memento from October 20, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
  12. ↑ http://jis.gov.jm/recipients-grateful-national-recognition/ auf. 22nd August 2016
personal data
SURNAME Mills, Glen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION jamaican athletics coach
DATE OF BIRTH August 14, 1949