Kara Goucher

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Kara Goucher Boston 2009.jpg
Kara Goucher at the 2009 Boston Marathon

nation United StatesUnited States United States
birthday 9th July 1978 (age 42)
place of birth Queens ,  United States
size 173 cm
Weight 57 kg
Career
discipline Long distance running
status active
Medal table
World championships 0 × gold 1 × silver 0 × bronze
World Marathon Majors 0 × gold 0 × silver 2 × bronze
IAAF logo World championships
silver Osaka 2007 10,000 m
Abbott World Marathon Majors logo (small) .svg World Marathon Majors
bronze New York City 2008 marathon
bronze Boston 2009 marathon

Kara Goucher (* 9 July 1978 in Queens as Kara Grgas ) is an American long-distance runner .

Life

Goucher is the daughter of former professional soccer player Mirko Grgas, who was drafted by the St. Louis Rams . When she was four years old, Grgas was killed by a drunk driver. Her mother remarried three years later, so that Goucher also took the name of her stepfather and initially worked as Kara Grgas-Wheeler .

Goucher grew up in the state of Minnesota and graduated from the University of Colorado with a degree in psychology in 2001 . At the end of the year she married Adam Goucher, who is also a professional long-distance runner. In 2004 she moved with him to Portland (Oregon) , where she was trained by former world-class runner Alberto Salazar until 2011 . In 2015, she accused Salazar of anti-doping rule violations.

From 2011 she was trained by Jerry Schumacher for two years, and since 2014 she has been training again with her former college trainer Mark Wetmore.

Goucher is the mother of a son named Colt.

Athletic career

As a member of the University of Colorado team, Goucher was NCAA champion in 2000, 3000 meters , 5000 meters and cross country . In the same year she was eighth over 5000 meters in the national eliminations for the Olympic Games 2000 .

After college, she struggled with injuries for several years. In 2006, however, it caught up with the international top again. She became US runner-up over 5000 meters and ran the 10,000 meters in 31: 17.12 minutes in July 2006. A month and a half later she reached third place at the World Cup in Athens over 3000 meters with a time of 8: 41.42 minutes.

The greatest success of her career so far came with third place over 10,000 meters at the 2007 World Championships in Osaka behind Tirunesh Dibaba (ETH) and Elvan Abeylegesse (TUR). Ten years later she was awarded the silver medal for this achievement after the Turkish woman was convicted of doping through follow-up tests. In her first running competition over more than 10 kilometers, she won the Great North Run over the half-marathon distance in 1:06:57 h ahead of Paula Radcliffe (this time is not a record because of the gradient of the route).

Kara Goucher at the 2007 World Championships award ceremony

In 2008 he qualified for both the 5000 and 10,000 meters for the Olympic Games and reached both finals in Beijing. Over 10,000 meters she reached tenth place in a personal best of 30: 55.16 minutes, over 5,000 meters she was ninth. She made her marathon debut on November 2, 2008 at the New York City Marathon , where she finished third in 2:25:53 h.

In 2009 she finished third in the Boston Marathon on April 20 in a time of 2:32:25 h.

In 2012 she was part of the US team for the 2012 Olympic Games . In London she covered the Olympic marathon distance in 2:26:07 hours. This placed them in 11th place in the final ranking.

In 2013 she finished sixth in the Boston Marathon with a time of 2:28:11 h.

Personal best

discipline time date place
1500 m 4: 05.14 min August 27, 2006 Rieti
3000 m 8: 34.99 min September 9, 2007 Rieti
5000 m 14: 55.02 min September 16, 2007 Berlin
10,000 m 30: 55.16 min August 15, 2008 Beijing
10 km road run 32:46 min October 9, 2006 Boston
marathon 2:25:53 h November 2, 2008 new York

Web links

Commons : Kara Goucher  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Goucher's roller coast ride to success. In: iaaf.org. October 24, 2007, accessed April 19, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Track sisters keep pace at CU. In: extras.denverpost.com. March 6, 2001, accessed April 19, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Girl from the North Country. In: runnersworld.com. March 31, 2008, accessed April 19, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Runner's World June 2008 in Google Book Search, accessed April 19, 2018 (English).
  5. ↑ The Long Way of Kara Goucher. In: Leichtathletik.de. November 4, 2007, accessed April 19, 2018 .
  6. ↑ Back on Track. In: runnersworld.com. July 1, 2006, accessed April 19, 2018 .
  7. ^ Alberto Salazar confirms Kara Goucher is leaving the Nike Oregon Project. In: oregonlive.com. October 4, 2011, accessed April 19, 2018 .
  8. ↑ The track leads to Düsseldorf. In: deutschlandfunk.de. June 7, 2015, accessed April 19, 2018 .
  9. ^ Alberto Salazar: Truth will come out says athlete Kara Goucher. In: bbc.co.uk. June 29, 2015, accessed April 19, 2018 .
  10. ↑ Kara Goucher To Be Coached By Mark Wetmore. In: running.competitor.com. December 12, 2013, accessed April 19, 2018 .
  11. ^ Flanagan, Goucher Get Silver-Medal Upgrades. In: runnersworld.com. March 29, 2017, accessed April 19, 2018 .
  12. ↑ 2001 - 2015 Boston Marathon Results. Retrieved January 4, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Goucher, Kara
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Grgas-Wheeler, Kara
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American long-distance runner
DATE OF BIRTH July 9, 1978
PLACE OF BIRTH Queens