Richard Umberg

Richard Umberg
Richard Umberg (right) at the Liechtenstein Marathon 2005
nation	Switzerland
birthday	10th May 1950 (age 70)
place of birth	Glarus, Switzerland
Career
status	resigned
Medal table
Swiss championships 5 × 0 × 0 ×
Swiss championships gold Meiringen 1977 marathon gold Cortaillod 1979 marathon gold Basel 1981 marathon gold Ticino 1985 marathon gold Meiringen 1987 marathon
last change: October 10, 2018

Richard Umberg (born May 10, 1950 in Glarus in Eastern Switzerland) is a Swiss athlete and trainer.

Career

Richard Umberg grew up in Nidfurn and has lived in the Bern and Friborg region since the recruit school.

He was a medium and long-distance running trainer, conditioning trainer in tennis , alpine skiing , snowboarding , soccer, etc. and Swiss national trainer in the SLV athletics association . Umberg was able to win the Swiss marathon champion title five times and became known as the long-time coach of the top athlete Franziska Rochat-Moser .

Today he still trains his daughter Vera Notz-Umberg , who is also nine-time Swiss champion over 3000 meters indoor, 5000 meters , 10 km road, half marathon and winner of the Post-Cup 2005.

Awards

• In 1997 he was named "Swiss Athletics Coach of the Year 1997" by the Swiss Athletics Association.

Greatest sporting success

• Swiss marathon champion 1977/1979/1981/1985/1987
• Swiss best performance in 1980 in the marathon 2:16:13 h and 2:14:28 h
• Personal best marathon time 2:13:37 h 1984
• Swiss record over 25 km 1: 18: 56.6 h 1978
• 18th place at the European Championship marathon in Athens GRE 1982
• 25 international matches 1973 - 1989
• Winner of the marathons in Biel SUI (1976), Melbourne AUS (1986), Cesano Boscone ITA (1988),
• Winner in the Masters class at the Chicago Marathon USA (1990) and Duluth Marathon USA (1991)
• 31 marathons under 2:20:00 h
• 25 “Top Ten” classifications in international marathons

Coaching activities and successes

• Triathlete Caroline Steffen (3rd place Ironman Switzerland 2008, Vice-World Champion Triathlon Long Distance 2016)
• 2002 - Member of the endurance group of Swiss Olympic
• 2001 - Training advisor at the Swiss Olympic Medical Center (SOMC) in Bad Ragaz SG
• 1989 - 2001 trainer of Franziska Rochat-Moser , u. a. Winner of the New York City Marathon in 1997 and Swiss record holder
• 1997 Award as "Athletics Trainer of the Year 1997" from the Swiss Athletics Association (SLV)
• 1996 - 1997 fitness trainer of tennis player Martina Hingis
• 1993 - 1996 National trainer marathon / half marathon / mountain running / walking of the Swiss Athletics Association (SLV)

Coaching assignments with the Swiss national athletics team

• 1990
  • 15K World Cup women Dublin
• 1992
  • Olympic Games Barcelona
• 1993
  • World Cross Country Championships 1993 Amorebieta-Etxano
  • World Athletics Championships Stuttgart
  • World Half Marathon Championships Brussels
  • Marathon World Cup San Sebastian
• 1994
  • Cross Country World Championships Budapest
  • Half Marathon World Championships Oslo
• 1995
  • World Athletics Championships Gothenburg
  • Mountain Running World Trophy Edinburgh
  • Half Marathon World Championships Montbéliard
• 1996
  • Olympic Games Atlanta
  • Mountain Running World Trophy Telfes
  • Half Marathon World Championships Palma
• 1997
  • World Athletics Championships Athens (personal coach of Franziska Rochat-Moser)
• 1998
  • Half marathon world championships Uster (personal coach of Franziska Rochat-Moser)

Web links

• Richie the Coach , website by Richard Umberg

Individual evidence

1. ↑ «One of us will win, but you are not» (October 22, 2014)