Alberto Salazar
Salazar in 2008
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Personal information | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Alberto Bauday Salazar | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nationality | American | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born |
August 7, 1958 Havana, Cuba |
||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 5 ft 11 in (180 cm) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 141 lb (64 kg) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Track, Long-distance running | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Event(s) | 5000 meters, 10,000 meters, Marathon | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| College team | Oregon | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Achievements and titles | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Personal best(s) |
5000 meters: 13:11.26 10,000 meters: 27:25.61 Marathon: 2:08:13 |
||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
Medal record
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||
Alberto Salazar (born August 7, 1958) is an American track coach and former world-class long-distance runner. Born in Cuba, Salazar emigrated to the United States as a child with his family. They moved to Manchester, Connecticut and then to Wayland, Massachusetts, where Salazar competed in track and field in high school. Salazar is best known for his performances in the New York City Marathon in the early 1980s and his 1982 Boston Marathon victory known as the "Duel in the Sun." He held American track records of 13:11.93 for 5,000 m (July 6, 1982 – Stockholm) and 27:25.61 for 10,000 m – (June 26, 1982 – Oslo).
Salazar currently is the head coach of the Nike Oregon Project in Portland, Oregon. He won the IAAF Coaching Achievement Award in 2013 during a ceremony hosted by the International Athletics Foundation in Monaco. In June 2015, Salazar was named in a joint BBC Panorama and ProPublica investigation into doping allegations.
Born in Cuba, Salazar grew up in Wayland, Massachusetts. His father Jose was a close friend of Fidel Castro and fellow Cuban revolutionary, who became an opponent of the Communist government and member of the anti-Castro movement. The younger Salazar was an outstanding high school runner who was state cross country champion in 1975. He trained wıth the well known Greater Boston Track Club (whose members included the likes of Bill Rodgers, Randy Thomas, and Greg Meyer) where he was given the nickname of "the rookie".
...
Wikipedia