Graham Hood

Graham Hood ( Graham Colin Hood; born April 2, 1972 in Winnipeg ) is a former Canadian middle -distance runner who specialized in the 1,500-meter distance .

At the Olympic Games in Barcelona in 1992 he was ninth and did not reach the finish line in Atlanta in 1996 .

In 1997 he was eleventh at the World Indoor Championships in Paris and seventh at the World Athletics Championships in Athens . In 1999 he won the Pan American Games in Winnipeg and was tenth at the World Cup in Seville .

In 2001 he reached the semi-finals at the World Cup in Edmonton . The following year he came in 35th place in the short distance races of the 2002 World Cross Country Championships in Dublin and fifth in the Commonwealth Games in Manchester .

Four times he was Canadian champion over 1500 m (1991, 1997, 1999, 2001). In 1994 he won the NCAA title over 1500 m for the University of Arkansas .

Personal bests

• 800 m : 1: 45.70 min, June 25, 1994, Cork
• 1000 m : 2: 16.88 min, June 10, 1996, Montreal
• 1500 m: 3: 33.94 min, August 13, 1997, Zurich
  • Hall: 3: 40.07 min, March 7, 1997, Paris
• 1 mile : 3: 51.55 min, August 26, 1997, Berlin
  • Hall: 3: 55.70 min, February 15, 2003, Fayetteville
• 3000 m (hall): 7: 59.03 min, February 11, 2005, Fayetteville

Web links

• Graham Hood in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Graham Hood in the database of trackfield.brinkster.net (English)
• Graham Hood in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )