Jim Spivey

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Jim Spivey medal table

1500 meter run

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World championships
bronze 1987 Rome 1500 m
Pan American Games
silver 1987 Indianapolis 1500 m

Jim Spivey (actually: James Calvin Spivey ; born March 7, 1960 in Schiller Park , Illinois ) is a former American middle and long distance runner .

At Fenton High School in Bensenville, Illinois he was the best high school cross runner in llinois. He then moved to Indiana University Bloomington from 1978 to 1983 as a sports scholarship holder and trained with Sam Bell , who accelerated his sports career with very intense tempo runs. He successfully completed his studies with a bachelor's degree in business administration . In 1983 he reached the semi-finals at the World Championships in Helsinki over 5000 m , and in 1984 he was fifth in the Olympic Games in Los Angeles over 1500 m .

During the season he celebrated his greatest successes. Each over 1500 m he was fourth at the World Indoor Championships in Indianapolis and won the silver medal at the Pan American Games behind the Brazilian Joaquim Cruz . At the World Championships in Rome he won bronze in 3: 38.82 min and only had to admit defeat to Somali Abdi Bile (3: 36.80 min) and Spaniard José Luis González (3: 38.03 min).

Although he set up his best time over 1500 m (3: 31.01 min) in 1988, he missed qualifying for the Olympic Games in Seoul with fourth place at the US championships .

In 1992 he was eighth over 1500 m at the Olympic Games in Barcelona . A year later he was fifth over the same distance at the World Championships in Stuttgart . He then returned to the 5000 m distance. At the World Championships in Gothenburg in 1995 he was eliminated in the preliminary stages, at the 1996 Olympic Games he reached the semi-finals.

In the open air he was national champion over 1500 m in 1984, 1985, 1987 and 1992, indoors in 1982 over 1 mile and in 1988 over 3000 m . Jim Spivey is 1.80 m tall and weighed 63 kg at competition times. He named his son after the British 800-meter world record holder, Coe , Sebastian. After the end of his active career, he began to work as an athletics trainer in 1997. From 1997 to 2001 he was the head coach of the track and field athletes at the University of Chicago , before moving to Vanderbilt University from 2001 to 2005 in the same position, then he moved to the Wheaton (Illinois) Academy in West Chicago and is also responsible for university contacts for ASICS America. He also advises on an individual basis.

Personal bests

  • 800 m : 1: 46.5 min, June 12, 1982, Berkeley
  • 1000 m : 2: 16.54 min, July 21, 1984, Eugene
  • 1500 m: 3: 31.01 min, August 28, 1988, Koblenz
    • Hall: 3: 39.6 min, February 1, 1987, Providence (intermediate time)
  • 1 mile: 3: 49.80 min, July 5, 1986, Oslo
  • 2000 m : 4: 52.44 min, September 15, 1987, Lausanne (US record)
  • 3000 m: 7: 37.04 min, August 1, 1993, Cologne
  • 5000 m: 13: 15.86 min, August 30, 1994, Berlin

Individual evidence

  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. ↑ http://www.tnrunning.com/articles/milner/catching_up_with_spivey.html on . 4th March 2017
  3. ↑ http://jimspivey.com/topworkouts.html on . 4th March 2017

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personal data
SURNAME Spivey, Jim
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Spivey, James Calvin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American middle distance runner
DATE OF BIRTH March 7, 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Schiller Park , Illinois