Sebastian Coe

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Sebastian Coe in 2012

Full name Sebastian Newbold Coe, Baron Coe
nation United KingdomUnited Kingdom United Kingdom
birthday September 29, 1956
place of birth Chiswick , UK
size 175 cm
Weight 54 kg
job Sports official
Career
discipline 800 meter run , 1500 meter run
society Haringey AC
status resigned
End of career 1990
Medal table
Olympic games 2 × gold 2 × silver 0 × bronze
European championships 1 × gold 2 × silver 1 × bronze
Olympic rings Olympic games
gold Moscow 1980 1500 m
silver Moscow 1980 800 m
gold Los Angeles 1984 1500 m
silver Los Angeles 1984 800 m
EAA logo European championships
bronze Prague 1978 800 m
silver Athens 1982 800 m
gold Stuttgart 1986 800 m
silver Stuttgart 1986 1500 m

Sebastian Newbold Coe, Baron Coe , KBE , CH (born September 29, 1956 in Chiswick , London ; also known as Seb Coe ) is a British sports official , politician and former athlete . As a middle-distance runner , he won four Olympic medals, two of which were gold in the 1,500-meter run at the 1980 and 1984 Olympic Games . In addition, he set eight world records. After retiring from elite sport, Coe was a member of the House of Commons for the Conservative Party from 1992 to 1997 . In 2000 he became a Life Peer and has been a member of the House of Lords ever since . He led London's successful bid for the 2012 Olympic Games and was Chairman of the LOCOG Organizing Committee from 2005 until he became Chairman of the British Olympic Association in late 2012 . From 2007 to 2015 he was Vice President of the IAAF World Athletics Federation and was then elected President in August 2015 and re-elected in September 2019.

biography

youth

Coe was born in Chiswick , London . His mother Tina Angela Lal came from India and was the daughter of a Punjabi -Vaters and an Englishwoman. His father was Peter Coe, an engineer of Welsh and Irish descent. The family also included a brother and two sisters. Coe grew up in Sheffield and showed talent as a middle distance runner. He was mainly trained by his father, who, with little theoretical knowledge, implemented training programs specifically tailored to him. Coe studied economics and social history at Loughborough University and joined the Haringey Athletics Club . At the university he met the track and field trainer George Gandy, who had developed a form of conditioning that, according to Coes, was "revolutionary" and formed the basis for later successes. It was based on the training principles of Frank Horwill, who had reorganized middle-distance running in Great Britain with the British Milers' Club .

Sports career

800-meter run at the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow; Coe with the no. 254

In 1977 Coe won his first major race, an 800-meter run at the European Indoor Championships in San Sebastián . His first encounter with his future main rival Steve Ovett had five years earlier at a school cross-run , but neither of them could win. The rivals' first international clash followed at the 1978 European Championships in Prague . In the 800-meter run, which Olaf Beyer won, Ovett ran second and Coe third.

A few weeks later Coe got back the British record in Crystal Palace with 1:43:97 min, which Ovett had undercut in Prague. In 1979, Coe set three new world records within 41 days. In Oslo he ran the 800 meters in 1:42:33 min and the mile in 3:48:95 min, later in Zurich the 1500 meters in 3:32:03 min. Coe was the first athlete to hold all three records at the same time. He remained unbeaten over all three distances this year. In 1980 he beat Rick Wohlhuter's world record in the 1000 meter run with a time of 2: 13.40 minutes . For around 45 minutes he held the world records over all four middle distances until Ovett improved the mile record. At the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow , Coe was the favorite over 800 meters, but was only second behind Ovett. Coe described the run as the "tactically worst race of my life." He reciprocated and won the 1,500 meter run four days later.

In June 1981 Coe ran an 800-meter world record with 1: 41.73 minutes, which was only broken 16 years later by Wilson Kipketer . His world record over 1000 meters of 2: 12.18 minutes, set one month later, was not improved until 1999 by Noah Ngeny . Both times are still British records today. As in 1979, he remained unbeaten in the 1981 season over 800 and 1500 meters. The 1982 season was shortened considerably due to an injury, but he was able to win the silver medal in the 800-meter run at the 1982 European Championships in Athens . In 1983 Coe started the season with two indoor world records over 800 and 1000 meters, but then suffered from toxoplasmosis for a long time . Because of this, he missed the first ever World Championships.

Coe competed again in the spring of 1984 and was nominated for the 1984 Olympic Games , although he was narrowly beaten by Peter Elliott at the British Championships . In Los Angeles he won the silver medal over 800 meters behind the Brazilian Joaquim Cruz . He was able to repeat the Olympic victory in the 1,500 meter run, which no other athlete has since achieved. In 1985, Coe took the season off calmly, as he planned to switch to the 5000 meters (which ultimately never happened). He also suffered from back pain, which is why he missed several weeks of training. Towards the end of the season he achieved fast times again, but he lost his world record for miles to Steve Cram . At the 1986 European Championships in Stuttgart , the British celebrated a triple victory when Coe won the 800-meter run ahead of Tom McKean and Steve Cram. He also took second place behind Cram over 1500 meters.

Due to an injury, Coe was sidelined for most of the 1987 season. The following year he was not nominated for the British team of the 1988 Olympic Games after he had failed to qualify in the eliminations in Birmingham over 1500 meters. The Daily Mirror launched a media campaign and IOC President Juan Antonio Samaranch campaigned in vain to change the rules in Coe's favor. India, his mother's homeland, offered him a place to start, but he declined. 1989 Coe won again the British championship title over 1500 meters. He resigned in early 1990 after missing the 1990 Commonwealth Games in Auckland due to a chest infection .

Politician and sports official

Sebastian Coe in 1987

As a candidate for the Conservative Party , Coe ran for the 1992 general election . He was elected in the constituency of Falmouth & Camborne in Cornwall with 36.9% of the vote . Five years later he was defeated in the 1997 general election, when the Conservative Party lost half of its parliamentary seats and the government was voted out of office, to Labor candidate Candy Atherton. With 28.8% of the vote, he came in second place. After serving briefly as Chief of Staff to William Hague , he was promoted to a Life Peer in 2000 . He holds the title of Baron Coe , of Ranmore in the County of Surrey , and has been a member of the House of Lords ever since . He was honored with different levels of the Order of the British Empire : 1982 as MBE, 1990 as OBE and 2006 as KBE .

When London announced the bid for the 2012 Olympic Games , Coe took on the role of official ambassador and was a member of the senior management of the bid committee. From May 2004 he presided over the management and accompanied the application through the final phase. Commentators described Coe's lobbying and presentation at the crucial IOC meeting in July 2005 as particularly effective. Finally, on July 6th, London was awarded the contract. Three months later, he became President of the London Organizing Committee of the Olympic Games and Paralympic Games . In this capacity, he gave the welcoming speech of the committee at the opening ceremony of the Games on July 27, 2012 in London . Jacques Rogge awarded Sebastian Coe the Olympic Order in 2012 . In November 2012, Coe took over the chairmanship of the British Olympic Association , succeeding Lord Moynihan .

On August 19, 2015, Coe was elected the sixth President of the IAAF with 115 to 92 votes, the defeated fellow candidate was the Ukrainian Serhij Bubka . Coe took office on August 31st. When he took office, he would automatically have become a member of the IOC . However, the admission did not take place until five years later, by resolution of the IOC session on July 17, 2020. Coe made the choice of winning his gold medals and winning the Olympic Games for London. He promised to take action against doping in his new office and to make athletics attractive to people again. During the general assembly of the world association in Doha in September 2019, he was unanimously re-elected as president without opposing candidates.

In addition to his honorary posts in sports, Coe is a partner and board member of the sports marketing company CSM. He also has consulting contracts with Nike and Chelsea FC .

Personal and family

Coe married the former eventing rider Nicky McIrvine in 1990, with whom he has two sons and two daughters. The marriage ended in divorce twelve years later. In 2003 he began a relationship with Carole Annett, the daughter of national cricket player MJK Smith . The couple married in July 2011.

Personal bests

  • 400 m : 46.87 s, 14 July 1979 in London
  • 800 m: 1: 41.73 min, June 10, 1981 in Florence
    • Hall: 1: 44.91 min, March 12, 1983 in Cosford
  • 1000 m: 2: 12.18 min, July 11, 1981 in Oslo
    • Hall: 2: 18.58 min, March 19, 1983 in Oslo
  • 1500 m: 3: 29.77 min, September 7, 1986 in Rieti
  • 1 mile: 3: 47.33 min, August 28, 1981 in Brussels
  • 2000 m : 4: 58.84 min, June 5, 1982 in Bordeaux
  • 3000 m (hall): 7: 54.32 min, March 8, 1986 in Cosford

Book publication

Awards

Web links

Commons : Sebastian Coe  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lord Coe and his grandfather, the Punjabi Playboy. Daily Mail , December 13, 2009, accessed July 25, 2012 .
  2. ↑ Peter Coe: the father who kept Seb on track. The Daily Telegraph , August 12, 2008, accessed July 25, 2012 .
  3. ↑ George Gandy's Tips on Running for Fitness. Motley Health, August 25, 2009, accessed July 25, 2012 .
  4. ↑ Arnd Krüger : Many roads lead to Olympia. The changes in training systems for medium and long distance runners (1850–1997). In: Norbert Gissel (Hrsg.): Sports performance in change (= writings of the German Association for Sports Science. Vol. 94). Czwalina, Hamburg 1998, ISBN 3-88020-322-9 , pp. 41-56.
  5. ↑ a b c d 50 stunning Olympic moments No23: Coe v Ovett, Moscow 1980. The Guardian , April 18, 2012, accessed on July 25, 2012 (English).
  6. ↑ UK records - All men outdoor. thepowerof10.info, July 25, 2012, accessed July 25, 2012 .
  7. ↑ Frozen in time: August 28, 1986. The Guardian, July 30, 2006, accessed July 25, 2012 .
  8. ^ Coe's London legacy challenge. British Broadcasting Corporation, August 30, 2008, archived from the original on August 28, 2008 ; accessed on July 25, 2012 (English).
  9. ↑ Falmouth and Camborne. The Guardian, archived from the original on April 25, 2010 ; accessed on July 25, 2012 (English).
  10. ^ Profiles: Lord Cee. British Broadcasting Corporation, December 31, 2005, accessed July 25, 2012 .
  11. ↑ Thank you, London! International Olympic Committee, August 14, 2012, accessed August 15, 2012 .
  12. ^ Lord Coe becomes chairman of the British Olympic Association. British Broadcasting Corporation, November 7, 2012, accessed August 31, 2013 .
  13. ↑ Sebastian Coe elected IAAF President. August 19, 2015, accessed August 19, 2015 .
  14. ↑ World President of Athletics Coe accepted into IOC. July 17, 2020, accessed July 18, 2020 .
  15. ^ Lord Coe becomes chairman of the British Olympic Association. The Guardian, August 19, 2015, accessed August 19, 2015 .
  16. ↑ Michael Reinsch: Sebastian Coe is still IAAF President. FAZ , September 25, 2019, accessed on October 2, 2019 .
  17. ↑ Doubts about the role of Reedie and Coe in the doping scandal. Rheinische Post, November 11, 2015, accessed on November 12, 2015 .
  18. ↑ Leadership of the World Athletics Federation: "Shakespeare" wants to go up. Spiegel Online, August 18, 2015, accessed November 12, 2015 .
  19. ^ Sebastian Coe: the running mate. The Guardian, February 18, 2001, accessed July 25, 2012 .
  20. ↑ Olympic chief Lord Coe weds long-time girlfriend in low-key secret ceremony. Daily Mail, August 27, 2011, accessed July 25, 2012 .
personal data
SURNAME Coe, Sebastian
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Coe, Sebastian Newbold, Baron Coe; Coe, Seb (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British middle distance runner, politician and sports official
DATE OF BIRTH September 29, 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Chiswick , London