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Recognition at Last for an Overlooked American Marathoner
Leonard “Buddy” Edelen, who once held the marathon world record only to become the forgotten man of the American marathoning history, is getting his due. He was posthumously inducted into the USA Track & Field Hall of Fame on November 3.
On June 15, 1963, a sparse crowd at Chiswick Stadium near London watched Edelen win the Windsor-Chiswick “Polytechnic” Marathon in 2:14:28. Edelen’s time broke the world record held by Toru Terasawa of Japan. It was 48 seconds faster than Abebe Bikila of Ethiopia ran to win the Rome Olympics in 1960. Edelen was the only American to hold the record between Albert Michelson in 1925 and Khalid Khannouchi in 2002.
Related: Fate and the Marathoners, Abebe Bikila and Buddy Edelen
Edelen’s upright, clipped, pecking-chicken stride, his plain white T-shirt and signature knotted handkerchief around his neck, his dedicated training and almost obsessive racing, were known and admired among the small English running community—but not in America.
He moved to Essex, England, in 1960, to work as a teacher and to learn from England’s hard-as-nails training and racing environment, more rigorous at that time than anything in U.S. distance running.
But Edelen did not neglect the U.
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Alberto Salazar
Cuban-born American long-distance runner, and later, track coach
Alberto Salazar (born August 7, 1958) is an American former track coach and long-distance runner. Born in Cuba, Salazar immigrated to the United States as a child with his family, living in Connecticut and then in Wayland, Massachusetts, where Salazar competed in track and field in high school. Salazar won the New York City Marathon three times in the early 1980s, and won the 1982 Boston Marathon in a race known as the "Duel in the Sun". He set American track records for 5,000 m and 10,000 m in 1982. Salazar was later the head coach of the Nike Oregon Project. He won the IAAF Coaching Achievement Award in 2013.
In 2015, Salazar was named in a joint BBCPanorama and ProPublica investigation into doping allegations. In 2019, Salazar was banned for four years from athletics for doping offenses involving athletes he coached.[3] The Nike Oregon Project was shut down in the wake of the controversy.[4]
In January 2020, the United States Center for SafeSport placed Salazar on its temporarily banned list while it investigated allegations against him involving sexual and emotional misconduct. SafeSport permanently banned him a year and a half later, in July 2021, after it found
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5-Aug-1984 – Los Angeles Olympiad – 2:24:52 – Nike Skylon Racer
Date be totally convinced by birth: 16-May-1957
Nationality: American
Olympic Snap duration: 16 years, 1 month, 19 days
The athlete:
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