Kenny Moore

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Kenny Moore (actually Kenneth Clark Moore; born December 1, 1943 in Portland ) is a retired American long-distance runner and sports journalist .

After graduating from high school in Eugene in 1962 , he enrolled at the University of Oregon to train in Bill Bowerman 's training group. Since marathon running is not part of the university competition sports program, he did not receive a competitive sports scholarship. In 1964 he became Pacific Northwest Champion in the marathon and in 1965 he won the Mohawk-McKenzie Marathon in his hometown of Eugene in 2:25:03 h. In 1966 he took his bachelor's degree with philosophy as a major. He was now a professional athlete for two years, where he became US cross-country champion in 1967. The following year he took his first of six straight wins at Bay to Breakers . Second in the US championship, he qualified for the marathon of the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico City, where he finished 14th. He was then drafted for two years. As a prominent runner, however, he did not have to go to Vietnam , but was assigned to a propaganda unit after completing his military service . In 1969 he was seventh in the Fukuoka Marathon with the US record of 2:13:28 h. In 1970 a victory in the Trail's End Marathon was followed by a sixth place in the Boston Marathon . In Fukuoka he finished second and improved his national record to 2:11:36 h.

After completing his military service, he enrolled again at the University of Oregon and completed a master's degree in creative writing , which he successfully completed in 1972. He continued to train in the Oregon training group and became the US AAU marathon champion in 1971 . The following year he won the US Olympic Games elimination race with Frank Shorter . At the Olympic Marathon in Munich he was fourth in 2:15:50 hours, a good three minutes behind the winner Shorter and half a minute behind the bronze medalist Mamo Wolde . In 1976 he won the Marine Corps Marathon and in 1977 he finished eighth in the New York City Marathon . In 1979 he won the Great Hawaiian FootRace, a stage running km on the 502nd This excited him so much that he moved to Kailua , Oahu , Hawaii from 1985 to 2002 before returning to Eugene. From 1973 to 1980 he was a founding member of the US Olympic Committee's Athletes Advisory Council , which, as the advisory body to the United States Congress, had a decisive influence on the transformation of American competitive sport through the Amateur Sports Act of 1978 .

From 1971 to 1980 he was a freelancer , from 1980 to 1995 editor of Sports Illustrated . In 1995 he traveled to Ethiopia to visit Mamo Wolde, who had been detained for three years without charge for alleged involvement in crimes under the regime of Mengistu Haile Mariam . Upon his return, he and other Olympic athletes launched a successful campaign for a bail release and a fair trial.

Along with Robert Towne , he wrote the screenplay for the film Limitless ( Without Limits, 1998) on Steve Prefontaine , who like himself at the University of Oregon by Bill Bowerman had been trained.

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  1. ↑ Bowerman mainly trained off-road, relatively short but intense runs at racing pace, cf. Arnd Krüger : Many roads lead to the Olympics. 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.kennymoore.us/kenny_moore_resume.htm on . March 25, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Moore, Kenny
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Moore, Kenneth Clark (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American long distance runner
DATE OF BIRTH December 1, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Portland