Mark Belger

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Mark Belger (born September 6, 1954 in Bellmore , Nassau County , New York ) is a former American middle-distance runner who started for Villanova University .

Life

After attending Wellington C. Mepham High School , where he ran an American youth record over 880 yards, he received a competitive athletic scholarship from Jumbo Elliott , who tried to keep him in shape through a variety of tempo runs - even in winter on an indoor wooden track bring. But since he lacked the necessary (endurance) basis, he improved only slightly. In 1976 he was fourth in the Olympic Trials and thus a substitute for the Olympic Games in Montreal . In 1978 he won the NCAA college championship . Since the American team had to boycott the Olympic Games in Moscow , he ended his career. When he graduated in business administration , he specialized in econometrics and from then on worked in Boston as an analyst who predicted raw material prices . After his retirement, he settled in Pacific Beach , where his children are again successful in competitive sports.

Footnotes

  1. ↑ http://villanovarunning.blogspot.de/2010/09/happy-birthday-mark-belger.html on . March 7, 2017
  2. ↑ 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.
  3. ↑ http://vault.sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1093625/1/index.htm%7Ctitle=They're Relay Great | work = Sports Illustrated | date = 8 May 1978 | up March 7, 2017
  4. ↑ http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/chronicle/archive/2002/04/30/SP146538.DTL | title = Profile, Erin Belger | work = San Francisco Chronicle | date = April 30, 2002 | up March 7, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Belger, Mark
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American middle distance runner
DATE OF BIRTH September 6, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Bellmore , New York