Jim Alder

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Jim Alder (actually James Noel Carroll Alder; born June 10, 1940 in Glasgow ) is a former British long-distance runner .

Life

Jim's father died in the last days of the war and his mother died of tuberculosis in 1947 . Jim was given up for adoption and grew up in Morpeth, near Newcastle. He trained as a bricklayer and practiced this profession all his life. He often trained alone, with lots of hard tempo runs, cross, road and track races.

1964 followed a fifth place in the East Riding & Yorkshire Marathon in 2:23:12 h and a fourth place in the Polytechnic Marathon in 2:17:46 h. For the Olympic Games in Tokyo, however, he had to give way to Basil Heatley , Brian Kilby and Ron Hill . Instead, he competed on October 17 in a two-hour run in 1964 in Walton-on-Thames and covered 37,994 m. The intermediate time of 1: 34: 01.8 h for 30,000 m was recognized as a world record.

In 1966 he won bronze over six miles for Scotland starting at the British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Kingston and won the marathon in 2:22:08 h. He got lost in the parking lot shortly before the goal because of the lack of marshals and only caught Bill Adcocks on the home straight , who had overtaken him in the meantime. At the European Athletics Championships in Budapest he was ninth over 10,000 m and second at the Košice Marathon .

The following year he won the English Marathon Championship in 2:16:08 h and was fifth in the Fukuoka Marathon in 2:14:45 h.

In 1968 he was fourth in the Karl Marx Stadt Marathon in 2:14:15 h and third in the English Marathon Championship in 2:16:37 h. In the marathon of the Olympic Games in Mexico City , he did not reach the goal.

The following year he was third in the Belgian Marathon Championship and the Maxol Marathon. At the European Championship marathon in Athens in 1969 , he took bronze in 2:19:06 h.

In 1970 he became the Scottish marathon champion and won silver in the British Commonwealth Games marathon in Edinburgh in 2:12:04 h. On September 5th, in London , he won the world record over 30,000 m with 1: 31: 30.4 h.

In 1971 he was sixth in the Maxol Marathon, in 1972 he won a marathon in Blyth , and in 1973 he was third in the Enschede Marathon .

As a representative of Scotland, he took part in the World Cross Country Championships four times with the following placements:

He was three times Scottish champion in cross-country running (1962, 1970, 1971). He won the Morpeth to Newcastle Road Race five times (1965, 1969–1971, 1974). He owns a construction company and volunteers to train the Morpeth Harriers athletes .

Personal best

  • 6 miles: 27: 28.50 min, July 12, 1968, London
  • 10,000 m: 28: 50.6 min, August 1st 1969, London
  • 20,000 m: 59: 24.0 min, November 9, 1968, Leicester (intermediate time)
  • Hourly run : 20,200 m, 9 November 1968, Leicester
  • 25,000 m: 1:15: 34.4 h, September 5, 1970, London (interim)
  • 30,000 m: 1: 31: 30.4 h, September 5, 1970, London (British record)
  • Marathon: 2:12:04 h, July 23, 1970, Edinburgh

literature

  • Arthur T. McKenzie: Marathon and Chips: Biography of Jim Alder, World Record Holder. Alder Sports, 1981, ISBN 0950760412

Web links

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Simon Turnbull: Geronimo Jim's a gem . In: The Independent . May 8, 2010
  2. ↑ Arnd Krüger : Many roads lead to Olympia. The changes in training systems for medium and long distance runners (1850–1997). In: Norbert Gissel (Hrsg.): Sporting performance in change. Czwalina, Hamburg 1998, ISBN 3-88020-322-9 , pp. 41-56.
  3. ↑ Simon Turnbull: Geronimo Jim's a gem . In: The Independent . May 9, 2010
  4. ^ Stuart Bathgate: Commonwealth Games: Alder won after losing his way . In: The Scotsman . 4th September 2013
personal data
SURNAME Alder, Jim
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Alder, James Noel Carroll
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British long distance runner
DATE OF BIRTH June 10, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Glasgow