Scott Tinley

0 Scott Tinley
at Ironman Hawaii , 1999
Personal information
Date of birth	25th October 1956 (age 63)
place of birth	Santa Monica, USA
societies
successes
1982, 1985	2 × Ironman Hawaii winner
1982-1990	4 × Second Ironman Hawaii
1985	National champion long distance triathlon
status
Resigned in 1999

Scott Tinley (born October 25, 1956 in Santa Monica ) is a former American triathlete and was one of the "Big Four" who dominated the triathlon scene at the time with Mark Allen , Dave Scott and Scott Molina until the early 1990s . He is included in the best list of American triathletes on the Ironman distance .

In the course of his career as one of the first triathlon professionals, Tinley participated in over 400 competitions, of which he won almost a hundred. His palmares include numerous podium finishes in the two most important triathlons in the world in the 1980s: the Longue Distance de Nice triathlon (five) and the Ironman Hawaii (seven, including two wins in 1982 and 1985).
With twelve top ten placements at the Ironman Hawaii, Scott Tinley is the most successful athlete at the event, ahead of Mark Allen, Ken Glah and Dave Scott.

Career

Scott Tinley was born in Santa Monica, the second of eight children to his parents, and grew up in Fullerton . The seventh generation in Southern California, Tinley began triathlon and other multisport competitions after enrolling in Leisure Management at San Diego State University in 1976 . Tinley's first triathlon was the Mission Bay Triathlon in San Diego , which Bill Phillips, then forty-year-old professor of exercise physiology at Tinley's University, won ahead of Tom Warren , Tinley's neighbor and sports-loving owner of a trendy bar in San Diego, and Tinley in third place. Other competitions such as B. at the Tugs Race Swim & Runs organized by Warren followed. However, apart from marginal notes in the newsletter of the local running club, the San Diego Track Club , these competitions went unnoticed by the public. In May 1979, Tinley found the latest issue of Sports Illustrated in his mailbox with a note from Warren referring to an article about an endurance sports challenge Warren had participated in on O'ahu in January : Barry McDermott's Report on Warren at the Second Ironman Hawaii .

Triathlon since 1980

The initial spark for Tinley's way into competitive sport came from an experience in March 1980 when he was working as a paramedic: A youngster ran away in an argument with his parents and threatened to hang himself. Together with the police, they found the boy hanging in a closet. From then on, sport helped Tinley cope with the regular trauma of encountering violence, the injured and the suffering. Tinley saw ABC's report on the Ironman Hawaii 1980 on the program Wide World of Sports . When Warren competed in the Ironman Hawaii for the third time in February of the following year, Tinley was also part of the field of participants that had grown from twelve starters in 1979 to 326 athletes that it was measured for the first time in 1981 in the lava fields of the Big Island . Tinley had speculated on a placement somewhere in the top 20, ultimately he finished third behind John Howard and Tom Warren.

Winner Ironman Hawaii 1982

In the following year he was even able to win ahead of Dave Scott and his brother Jeff with a new course record.

Dramatic scenes less than two hours after Tinley's triumph in 1982 caused an unexpected surge of public attention for triathlon: Julie Moss collapsed as the woman in the lead a few meters from the finish. The TV report from ABC, how it took minutes with the last bit of strength to reach the goal, became the most-watched and repeated broadcast of Wide World of Sports that year. Barry Frank from sports marketer IMG , with whom Tinley had been friends since his appearance on the NBC - Reality Show Sports' Survival of the Fittest , contacted him: IMG now also wanted to organize a big triathlon - and Tinley should be involved in the concept. Tinley's idea of ​​a TriCountry Triathlon in front of the cliffs of Monaco could not be implemented in this way: Gracia Patricia died in September 1982 and the Principality banned all sporting events on its territory for six months. The competition was moved 20 km to the east without further ado. The result was the Triathlon de Nice , an invitation race for the fifty best triathletes in the world with worldwide TV reports from NBC about a distance of 1.5 km swimming, 100 km on the bike and a final marathon and the then record prize money of 25,000 US $. Tinley finished third behind Mark Allen and Scott Molina , together with Dave Scott , who pushed Tinley into second place six weeks earlier at the Ironman Hawaii, this quartet then dominated the global triathlon scene for almost a decade as the "Big Four".

Tinley met investment advisors Jerry David Dominelli and Nancy Hoover. Hoover's son was interested in triathlon, and so with Tinley and his brother Jeff, Mark Allen, Scott Molina, John Howard, Kathleen McCartney and Julie Leach, the JDavid / Hoover Racing team was the first professional team in triathlon. a. reduced the length of the run at the Triathlon de Nice . Eighteen months later, David and Hoover's investment recommendations emerged as the Ponzi Scheme . David was imprisoned for ten years and the team disbanded. Tinley, who had also been convinced to invest in the funds, lost all of his savings.

In the meantime, however, Tinley had already become successful with his sportswear brand Scott Tinley Performance Wear Clothing , which he founded together with three partners in 1984 and thus received an additional financial basis in addition to his income from entry fees and prize money. In 1992 Tinley sold the company to Reebok .

In August 1985 he became national champion on the long distance triathlon (3 km swimming, 84 km cycling and 20 km running) at the "Mount Bachelor-Cascade Lakes Triathlon". In 1985 he was the first triathlete to use an individually designed triathlon handlebar for an even more aerodynamic posture and less air resistance.

Winner Ironman Hawaii 1985

The question of the prize money led to the boycott of Ironman Hawaii in 1985 by the top triathletes. Instead, there was the entire world elite with the "Big Four" and, among others, Rob Barel , Axel Koenders , Dirk Aschmoneit , Yves Cordier and the women, for example. B. Erin Baker , Sylviane and Patricia Puntous , Sarah Springman , Colleen Cannon at the start of the triathlon Longue Distance de Nice, endowed with US $ 75,000 . But this time too, Tinley had to let Allen go, who won his fourth win in Nice on his fourth start. Back home in California, Tinley revised his plan and still reported at the Ironman Hawaii, which he won without any serious competitors by over twenty-five minutes ahead of second. It was the last time the Ironman Hawaii was hosted as an amateur event - from the following year onwards, prize money was also distributed in this competition. In 1985, Tinley completed four long-distance triathlons in less than three months: the US Long Course Championships in Oregon, the Cape Cod Triathlon, the Longue Distance de Nice Triathlon and the Ironman Hawaii, with the exception of second place in Nice .

In 1986 Tinley was a guest in Middle Franconia, where he had a showdown in Roth with the then German triathlon star Dirk Aschmoneit . After Tinley fell on the bike course, Aschmoneit won the race, Tinley finished second. Tinley then competed with Molina in the long-distance triathlon in Säter, Sweden, which Tinley won. On the way back from the competition, Molina encouraged Tinley to drive the car out on the dead straight and traffic-free Swedish roads, believing that there was no speed limit here, just like on German motorways. A police officer cleared up the two after a chase over 9 km, but waived a penalty and instead had the two triathletes adorn a poster of the competition that he had in the car as a souvenir for his son with their autograph.

From an interview with Bill Katovsky, then editor of the special-interest magazine Triathlete , a column called Tinley talks developed over two decades on the last page of the magazine . In 1986 Scott Tinley brought out his first book, Scott Tinley's Winning Triathlon , which was followed by over ten other publications.

In the final stages of his athletic career, Tinley enrolled again in 1996 at the age of forty at San Diego State University, where he received his Master of Arts degree in " Social Psychology of Sport" in 2003 . After attaining a Master of Fine Arts in fictional literature in 2004 , Tinley wrote his dissertation at Claremont Graduate University near Los Angeles and was awarded a Ph.D. PhD in cultural studies. Since 2003 he has been an assistant professor ( lecturer ) at San Diego State University.

Tinley finally ended his professional career in 1999 at the age of 43. Until then he started u. a. in each of the twenty editions of the Ironman Hawaii since its first participation in 1981 and crossed the finish line every year except for 1995, including twelve times in the prizes - more often than any other man. Only Fernanda Keller and Paula Newby-Fraser were asked to take to the stage more often during the Ironman Hawaii awards ceremony. Unlike most other professional triathletes, Tinley has not had any breaks in the course of his career that lasted a few weeks. After quitting competitive sports, he said it took him around four years to get used to the change and to be able to sleep normally again. Tinley got an artificial hip in 2010.

In 2013, Tinley created the blog trihistory.com together with sports journalist Mike Plant, which deals with aspects from the beginning of the sport of triathlon. Tinley also worked as a television commentator for CBS , ESPN and ABC.

Scott Tinley lives in Del Mar with his wife . The couple, who married in 1983, have two children.

Awards

• In 1995, Scott Tinley was named to the Hall of Fame by the WTC , the organizer of Ironman Hawaii and owner of the trademark rights for Ironman .
• In 2006, the organizer named Xterra Tinley to its Hall of Fame.
• In 2011, Scott Tinley was named to the Hall of Fame by the American Triathlon Association USA Triathlon (USAT).

Sporting successes

(DNF - Did Not Finish )

Publications

• Finding Triathlon: How Endurance Sports Explain the World Hatherleigh Press, September 2015. ISBN 978-1-57826-584-8
• Dirty Inspirations: Lessons from the Trenches of Extreme Endurance Sports with Terri Schneider. Hatherleigh Press, January 2016. ISBN 978-1-57826-602-9
• Racing the Sunset: How Athletes Survive, Thrive, or Fail in Life After Sport Skyhorse Publishing, April 2015. ISBN 978-1-63220-564-3
• Things To Be Survived Habitus Books, December 2006. ISBN 978-1-4276-0794-2
• Lifelong Success, Triathlon: Training for Masters: Ironman Edition with Henry Ash and Barbara Warren. Meyer & Meyer , October 2003. ISBN 978-1-84126-103-4
• Iron Will: The Triathlete's Ultimate Challenge with Mike Plant. Velo Press, 2nd edition October 1999 ISBN 978-1-884737-67-1
• Scott Tinley's Winning Guide to Sports Endurance: How to Maximize Speed, Strength and Stamina with Ken McAlpine. Rodale Press, February 1994. ISBN 978-0-87596-106-4
• Finding the Wheel's Hub: Tales and Thoughts on the Endurance Athletic Lifestyle Trimarket, March 1995. ISBN 978-0-9634568-5-4
• Triathlon: A Personal History Velo-Press, January 1999. ISBN 978-1-884737-49-7
• Racing the Sunset: An Athlete's Quest for Life After Sport The Lyons Press, October 2003. ISBN 978-1-59228-095-7
• Scott Tinley's Winning Triathlon Contemporary Books, April 1986. ISBN 978-0-8092-5117-9
• Psychosocial Aspects of Sports Injury and Illness SDSU, 2015. ISBN 978-0-7442-8768-4

Web links

• Homepage of Scott Tinley
• Scott Tinley in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)
• Profile for Scott Tinley at the Institute of Applied Exercise Science , accessed December 10, 2015
• www.trihistory.com Blog by Scott Tinley and Mike Plant with interviews and materials on the history of the triathlon

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Christina Gandolfo: The Nomad Scott Tinley sets himself up to succeed ( English ) World Triathlon Corporation . October 2003.
2. ^ ^{A b} Glenn F. Bunting: Triathlons Had Humble Beginning: Friendly San Diego Races Led to Big-Time Sports Events ( English ) In: Los Angeles Times . October 16, 1986.
3. ↑ Scott Tinley: Bill Phillips, The First Doctor of Speed ( English ) trihistory.com. January 6, 2014.
4. ^ Result list Tugs Race 1977 ( English ) Tom Warren . September 24, 1977.
5. ↑ Scott Tinley: The Pen that Launched a Thousand Triathlons ( English ) In: trihistory.com . January 7, 2014.
6. ↑ Ironman ( English ) In: Sports Illustrated . May 14, 1979. Archived from the original on June 3, 2011.
7. ↑ Peter Read Miller: Photos from the Sports Illustrated report of May 14, 1979 . In: Getty Images .
8. ↑ Barry McDermott: Ironman ( English , PDF) In: Sports Illustrated .
9. ↑ ^{a b} Scott Tinley: Untold as Yet: Part 2, On Tennis and Hanging Johnnys and Mexicans in Saabs ( English ) In: beginnertriathlete.com . 17th December 2013.
10. ↑ Robyn Norwood: Q & A with Scott Tinley: Triathlete Enjoys Long-Running Success, Doesn't Foresee an Imminent Slowdown ( English ) In: Los Angeles Times . June 4th 1989.
11. ↑ ^{a b} Scott Tinley: Untold as Yet: Part Uno ( English ) In: beginnertriathlete.com . November 7, 2013.
12. ↑ ^{a b} 30 ans du Triathlon de Nice 83-92 . Archived from the original on July 1, 2015.
13. ↑ Armen Keteyian: Triathlons secret sugar daddy ( English ) In: Sports Illustrated . October 10, 1983.
14. ^ Robert Lindsey: The Dominelli Affair ( English ) In: New York Times . 3rd June 1984.
15. ↑ Stan McKenzie: Tinley credits hard work ( English ) In: The Bulletin ( Bend ) . May 15, 1987.
16. ↑ The 5 Biggest Gear Breakthroughs of the Past 40 Years (June 21, 2018)
17. ↑ Herbert Krabel: few thoughts from Mark Allen ( English ) In: slowtwitch.com . April 13, 2009.
18. ↑ ^{a b} Triathlon features top stars . In: The Bulletin . August 8, 1985.
19. ^ Mark Stadler: Bud Light San Diego Triathlon: Course Familiarity Helps Molina to Easy Victory . In: Los Angeles Times . September 16, 1985.
20. ^ Scott Tinley at the School of Exercise & Nutritional Sciences ( English ) San Diego State University .
21. ^ Portrait of Scott Tinley at the Ironman Hawaii 1999 on YouTube
22. ↑ Dan Empfield: Scott Tinley his body sidelined his brain in the game ( english ) In: slowtwitch.com . December 28, 2007.
23. ^ Hall of Fame 1995 - Scott Tinley ( English ) World Triathlon Corporation .
24. ^ Hall of Fame . In: xterraplanet.com . Archived from the original on December 4, 2015.
25. ↑ Scott Tinley's Induction Speech - 2012 USAT Hall of Fame on YouTube
26. ↑ Timothy Carlson: Allen, Molina, Tinley top USAT 2012 HOF class . In: slowtwitch.com . 17th February 2012.
27. ↑ Timothy Carlson: 2012 USAT Hall of Fame . In: slowtwitch.com . May 16, 2012.
28. ^ Hall of Fame - class of 2011 . USA triathlon. 2011. Archived from the original on September 5, 2015.
29. ↑ Ken Glah - 30 straight at Kona (October 17, 2013)
30. ↑ Results Ironman Canada 1996 ( Memento from August 2, 1997 in the Internet Archive )
31. ↑ Erin Beresini: Recalled: Scott Tinley wins the 1985 Hawaii Ironman . In: triathlon.competitor.com . February 11, 2013.
32. ↑ Tinley forges Ironman mark ( English ) In: Spokane Chronicle . October 28, 1985.
33. ↑ Scott Butki: Interview with Scott Tinley, Author of Things To Be Survived . March 28, 2007. Archived from the original on April 1, 2007.