Liz McColgan

Liz McColgan-Nuttall
MBE

Personal information
Birth name	Elizabeth Lynch
Nationality	United Kingdom
Born	(1964-05-24) 24 May 1964 (age 52) Dundee, Scotland
Height	1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)
Weight	45 kg (99 lb; 7.1 st)
Sport
Country	Great Britain  Scotland
Sport	Running
Event(s)	10,000 metres Marathon 3,000 metres
Club	Dundee Hawks
Medal record Women's athletics Representing  Great Britain Olympic Games 1988 Seoul 10,000 m World Championships 1991 Tokyo 10,000 m World Indoor Championships 1989 Budapest 3000 m World Cross Country Championships 1987 Warsaw Women's race 1991 Amoriebieta Women's race World Half Marathon Championships 1992 Newcastle Women's race Representing  Scotland Commonwealth Games 1986 Edinburgh 10,000 m 1990 Auckland 10,000 m 1990 Auckland 3,000 m

Elizabeth McColgan-Nuttall MBE (née Lynch, born 24 May 1964) is a Scottish former middle-distance and long-distance track and road-running athlete. She won the gold medal for the 10,000 metres at the 1991 World Championships, and a silver medal over the same distance at the 1988 Olympic Games. She was also a two-time gold medallist over the distance at the Commonwealth Games, as well as winning the 1992 World Half Marathon Championships, 1991 New York City Marathon, 1992 Tokyo Marathon and 1996 London Marathon. Her 10,000 metres best of 30:57.07 set in 1991, made her only the third woman in history to run the distance in under 31 minutes. Both that time and her marathon best of 2:26:52 in 1997, still stand as Scottish records (as of 2016).

Born Elizabeth Lynch, she grew up in the Whitfield area of Dundee and was a pupil of St Saviour's RC High School.

She joined her local athletics club, the Hawkhill Harriers, at age 12 at the advice of her PE teacher Phil Kearns Coached by Harry Bennett, she soon discovered a talent for distance running and won her first UK titles at the age of 18. Following Bennett's death, McColgan self-coached in preparation for the Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh in 1986. From 1987 to 1989 McColgan was coached by John Anderson, including during the 1988 Olympics, after which she self-coached to the World 10000m title, and London, New York and Tokyo marathon wins. She then met Grete Waitz; who coached her from 1992 to her retirement in 1996.

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