If Coe was injured, he stopped working out, unlike other runners who "ran through" an injury and often prolonged it. Running only 30 miles a week, in comparison to other runners' 80 or 90 miles a week, Coe won the Yorkshire School Cross-Country Championships. A runner named Steve Ovett placed second. Coe did not know him at the time, but he soon would. He improved his times for the and meters as well.
In , Coe experienced a stress fracture and took time off from training. In the fall of that year, he enrolled at Loughborough University in Leicester. His father asked the coach, George Gandy, to help Coe with weight training and to get him on the track team, running the meter race. When he was 18, Coe won the Northern Counties under 3, meters. This victory and others led him to be chosen for the European junior championships in Athens, where he won a bronze medal and set a personal record for the 1, meters.
His father realized that Coe needed to add strength in order to have a strong, fast finish. Coe used weight training to build up his strength for that final kick. In , the family made an unusual decision: instead of pushing Coe toward longer and longer distances, they would concentrate on shorter distances, where Coe had much more potential.
Despite the fact that both Coe and his father were deeply involved in running, the family helped him to stay well-rounded. If he talked too much about running at family dinners, his siblings would chant "boring, boring.
According to Sandrock, "Coe's family helped imbue him with that special British sense of becoming a well-rounded citizen of the world, combining the artistic background of his mother with his father's scientific bent. He developed an interest in jazz his favorite style being Dixieland , literature, and the theater.
In , Coe stepped in a hole and tore the ligaments in his leg. He recovered in time, and went to the European Championships in Prague, the biggest race he'd been in so far. Steve Ovett, the runner he had met several years before, was expected to win. He and Coe felt an intense rivalry. Both were surprised at the end of the meters when another runner, Olaf Beyer, passed them both and took the gold, leaving Ovett in second and Coe in third.
Coe continued to attend Loughborough, and found it difficult to balance his studies and his training. He and his father continued their earlier training strategy of running fewer miles, but running them harder and faster, so that every mile counted.
Other runners were doing to fairly slow miles each week in training; Coe ran only 60 to 75, but he ran them at times of to per mile. In addition, Coe did speed work. He ran fast meters, then had a short recovery time, then ran the meters again at a faster time with less recovery, until he was running them quicker and quicker with less recovery in between. This brought him incredible strength and speed. Runner Kenny Moore told Sandrock, "We were running the s in 29 seconds. I was struggling, but keeping up, thinking 'this is great.
He just looked effortless. Others weren't like that. Coe spent the long, rainy winter of studying and training. He ran a few races and, in July, was at the starting line of the Bislett Games.
Done with school, his exams over, Coe set a world record in the meters with a time of At the BAAA championships, he ran meters in Despite his recent record there, he was not favored to win. He had the slowest mile time in the field, and he was running against veteran mile racers, including world-record-holder John Walker and Eamonn Coghlan.
Ovett, Coe's old rival, was scheduled to run but did not show up. On leaving school, Coe studied Economics and Social History at Loughborough University and in made his first mark as athlete, winning the m at the European Indoor Championship. The following year he set a new United Kingdom m record and in he broke the m, m and mile world records in the space of 41 days.
At the Olympic Games in Moscow in , Coe won the gold medal in the m, having won silver in the m. Four years later in Los Angeles he also won silver in the m before becoming the only man to successfully defend the m title. He retired from competitive athletics in and became a Member of Parliament and Private Secretary to William Hague.
In he was made a Peer. Born in Turin on July 14, , Nebiolo studied law before a successful business career in construction. His sporting achievements as a long jumper were relatively modest compared to other IAAF presidents but he quickly gained a reputation as an able administrator, doing much of the work that ensured his native city successfully staged the World Student Games.
A pivotal moment in the political history of the IAAF came in when Nebiolo insisted on changes to the voting structure of Congress, which had been biased towards the 'traditional' powers', to one-member one-vote. Nebiolo will also be remembered for substantially increasing the sport's finances revenues via commercial sponsorship and developing the IAAF's own television revenues as well as giving much greater attention to the issue of doping in sport and fighting drug cheats.
All Lifestyle Performance Culture. Season Top Lists All time Top lists. Home of World Athletics. The following year he achieved his personal best of 7. Shortly afterwards, he turned his attention to coaching and from guided the top Senegalese football club Foyer France Senegal, now known as ASC Diaraf.
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