Tim Johnston

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Timothy Frederick Kemball "Tim" Johnston (born March 11, 1941 in Oxford ) is a former British long-distance runner .

Career

Johnston had an elite education, starting at Bedales Prep School, then Eton , then Cambridge University . He was initially a cross country runner before he celebrated his successes on the track and the road. In Cambridge he trained with Herb Elliott , who led him into an intensive pace-run training similar to that of his former trainer Percy Cerutty . On October 16, 1965, Johnston set a world record over 30,000 m in Walton-on-Thames with 1: 32: 34.6 h. In 1966 he won the Lidingöloppet , and in 1967 he won silver at the Cross of Nations for England .

In 1968 he became English champion over six miles in 27:22.17 minutes and in the marathon in 2:15:26 hours. In the marathon of the Olympic Games in Mexico City , he finished eighth in 2:28:04 hours. In the same year he won the Around the Bay Road Race .

In 1969 he won the Karl-Marx-Stadt-Marathon. The following year he was seventh in the Polytechnic Marathon and fourth in the English championship over 10,000 m . On September 5, 1970, he finished second in Jim Alder's world record run over 30,000 m (1: 31: 30.4 h) with a half-minute gap.

In the English championship in marathon he was fourth in 1975 and eighth in 1976. In 1982 and 1983 he was senior world champion in the marathon.

As a translator of legal texts, he worked for the European Commission and the International Court of Justice . Most recently he wrote a biography about Otto Peltzer with Donald Macgregor (like Johnston seventh in the Olympic marathon, but four years later at the Olympic Summer Games ) .

Personal bests

  • 10,000 m: 28: 47.74 min, August 7, 1970, London
  • Hourly run : 19,823 km, September 5, 1970, London (intermediate time)
  • 20,000 m: 1: 00: 34.4 h, 5 September 1970, London (interim)
  • 25,000 m: 1: 16: 20.6 h, September 5, 1970, London (interim)
  • 30,000 m: 1: 31: 56.4 h, September 5, 1970, London
  • Marathon: 2:15:26 h, July 27, 1968, Cwmbran
  • 50,000 m: 2:55:07 h, October 16, 1982, London (intermediate time)

publication

  • Tim Johnston and Donald D. Mac Gregor: His own man: the biography of Otto Peltzer, champion athlete, Nazi victim, Indian hero.

Worthing: Pitch, 2016. ISBN 978-1-78531-190-1

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.bedales.org.uk/alumni/tim-johnston on . 3rd February 2017
  2. ↑ Arnd Krüger (1998): Many roads lead to Olympia. The changes in the training systems for middle and long distance runners (1850-1997), in: N. GISSEL (Hrsg.): Sportliche achievement im Wandel. Hamburg: Czwalina, pp. 41-56.
  3. ↑ http://www.globerunner.org/12/his-own-man/ auf. 3rd February 2017

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SURNAME Johnston, Tim
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Johnston, Timothy Frederick Kemball
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British long distance runner
DATE OF BIRTH March 11, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Oxford