Mihály Iglói

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Mihály Iglói (born September 5, 1908 in Budapest, † January 4, 1998 in Budapest) was a globally successful Hungarian coach of medium and long distance athletes, whose athletes achieved 49 world records. Iglói trained Sándor Iharos , István Rózsavölgyi , László Tábori , Bob Schul and Jim Beatty .

Iglói started as a pole vaulter and was Hungarian Junior Champion at 19. From 1929 to 1933 he studied sport at the University of Budapest. He became Hungarian champion over 800 meters and took part in the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin over 1500 meters; In 1939 he was a member of the Hungarian world record relay over 4 x 1,500 meters. After five years as a Soviet prisoner of war, he first became a teacher of history and sports, then coach of Honvéd Budapest , the Army Sports Club, for all athletics. The first world records in the middle and long distance were reached by his athletes in 1953 and from then on in unbroken succession, making them the clear favorites for the Olympic Games in Melbourne in 1956 . After the Hungarian uprising , however, they were mentally so out of shape that they couldn't win anything.

Iglói and Tábori used the Olympic Games in Australia and did not return to Hungary, but emigrated to the USA. Igloi first trained the Santa Clara Youth Valley, then the Los Angeles Track Club and finally the Santa Monica Track Club . The upswing in American long-distance running began with Igloi, as his student Jim Beatty was the first in the hall to run the mile under 4 minutes. Bob Schul, Olympic champion over 5000 meters at the 1964 Olympic Games in Tokyo , was the last big winner of the era of interval training. Harald Norpoth, trained by Ernst van Aaken , came second in the final .

Iglói became the Greek national coach in 1970, where his athletes also broke many national records. After the fall of communism, Iglói returned to Hungary, where he died in Budapest in 1998. Its athletes set 35 European, 45 US and 157 Greek national records.

Training methods

On the one hand, Iglói's training consisted of pure interval training with many repetitions on distances between 100 and 400 meters. In contrast to the Freiburg-style interval training according to Woldemar Gerschler and Herbert Reindell , his training was not physiologically based on pulse values, but rather he favored style training, as was common in the 1920s and 1930s. Through the style training, he paid particular attention to running economy. After Emil Zatopek's successes on the basis of interval training, running economy took a back seat in training. Due to the very high scope of training, however, he also approached the pure endurance training that was propagated internationally with Ernst van Aaken and Arthur Lydiard . Iglói did not need a stopwatch during training, but interrupted the repetition sequence when the visual appearance of the training no longer corresponded to the desired standard (e.g. 'good swing tempo'). The training corresponded to the block training . In Germany this training method corresponded to that of the cycling trainer Gustav Kilian .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Arnd Krüger : How does block periodization work? Learning Curves and Super Compensation Curves: Special Features of Block Periodization. In: FdSnow. Trade journal for skiing. 32, issue 45, 2014, pp. 22–33. ( Abstract on bisp-surf.de)

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personal data
SURNAME Iglói, Mihály
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian athlete and national coach
DATE OF BIRTH September 5, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Budapest
DATE OF DEATH January 4, 1998
Place of death Budapest