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“The marathon was what it was all about in those days.” – Pat Carroll
Profile
Coaches: Pat Clohessy, Dick Telford
Date of birth: 17 August 1961
Personal Bests
1500m: 3:39.03
3000m: 7:47.66
5000m: 13:25.49
10,000m: 28:30.55
10,000m road: 28:00
Half marathon: 61:11
Marathon: 2:09.39
Career...
“My life is totally different because of those three one-hundredths of a second that meant the difference between a Gold and Silver Medal.” - Dave Wottle
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Dave Wottle’s 1972 Munich Olympics 800m gold medal race video is a sight to behold. So much so...
Steve Prefontaine: A runners’ runner
A Column By Mark Tucker
Steve Roland "Pre" Prefontaine (January 25, 1951 – May 30, 1975)
“A lot of people run a race to see who is fastest. I run to see who has the most guts, who can punish himself into exhausting pace, and then at...
"The Jarrow Arrow" - Cram's Top 5
2017 Runner's Tribe, all rights reserved- By Sam Burke
The 1980’s were an era in which male middle distance running was dominated by Britain. The British dominance was total and overwhelming, much like the stranglehold that the Kenyans have held over the 3000m Steeplechase...
By Brett Davies
This week – on the 21st of November – Irish distance legend Eamonn Coghlan turned 70. In honour of the occasion, we take a look back at Coghlan’s rise to the top, then look at his greatest performances. We will then look at his career post-athletics and...
By Mark Tucker
“I had broken 2:09. I forgot my exhaustion. Within a couple (of) hours, the agony of a world record run would manifest itself. The elation would be replaced by fear. I would be urinating quantities of blood and vomiting black mucous. The race left me so totally...
‘3:26’ – Hicham El Guerrouj’s Top 5 Races © 2017 Runner’s Tribe, all rights reserved.
The Best Ever? – With 2 Olympic golds, 4 world championship golds and multiple world records; it is hard to argue against El Guerrouj’s claim to the title of ‘The Best Ever’.
Runner’s Tribe took a look...
‘Before Rudisha’
Wilson Kipketer’s Top 5 Races
“This man is one of the toughest competitors we have ever seen” - Steve Ovett
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Kipketer was the man to beat in the late nineties over 800. With three world championship gold’s, three 800m world records, and one...
Written by Amity Delaney - Runner's Tribe
Cathy Freeman is one of Australia’s most successful runners. She was also one of Australia’s most decorated Indigenous athletes. She was significant, both in terms of her athletic accomplishments, and also for the achievements she garnered as an Indigenous athlete. I watched her...
Joan Benoit Samuelson: A Column By Mark Tucker for Runner's Tribe
The first ever winner of the Women’s Olympic Marathon. The first ever! For any distance runner that would be an absolute dream sentence to come after your name. For Joan Benoit Samuelson, it’s reality.
In the heat, humidity and smog...
