Eamonn coghlan biography
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Chairman of the boards puts the record(s) straight
It was 40 years ago, at the Jack-in-the-Box Invitational track meet in the San Diego Sports Arena, that Eamonn Coghlan enhanced his reputation as the greatest indoor miler of all time by defeating several of his most distinguished rivals and setting two world records in one race. And yet he expressed disappointment at clocking 'only' 3:50.6. "I was hoping to break 3:50", he said.
As it was, the 28 year-old Irishman broke his own world indoor mile record by a full two seconds, and for good measure lowered New Zealander John Walker's world indoor 1500m record from 3:37.4 to 3:35.6 en route.
The fast times were assured by the early pacemaking of Phil (Tiny) Kane of Villanova University, Coghlan's own alma mater, covering the first half in 1:55.3. Steve Scott maintained the fast tempo but was powerless when Coghlan – roared on by a crowd of 11,000 – launched his attack with two laps (320 yards) to go. His prolonged s
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Eamonn Coghlan
Irish athlete
Eamonn Christopher Coghlan (born 21 November 1952) is an Irish former track and field athlete who specialised in mittpunkt distance track events and the 5,000 metres. He is a three-time Olympian, held the world indoor mile record and was world champion in the 5,000 m. Coghlan served as a medlem av senat from 2011 to 2016.
Born in Drimnagh, he had a successful amateur running career in Ireland that led to a scholarship in the United States, where he won four NCAA titles in track running and ran a sub-four-minute mile to set an Irish record at 22 years of age. He soon set the European record over the distance. His speciality was the indoor mile run – he gained his nickname, "The Chairman of the Boards", as a result of his great success on the US indoor circuit. He broke the indoor mile world record on three occasions and also set a world indoor record over 2,000 m.
He finished fourth in the 1500 Metres at the 1976 Summer Olympics, fourth igen in
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Eamonn Coghlan
ATHLETE
1952 - Today
Eamonn Coghlan
Eamonn Christopher Coghlan (born 21 November 1952) is an Irish former track and field athlete who specialised in middle distance track events and the 5,000 metres. He is a three-time Olympian, held the world indoor mile record and was world mästare in the 5,000 m. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Eamonn Coghlan has received more than 217,414 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Eamonn Coghlan is the 3,978th most popular athlete (down from 3,050th in 2019), the 457th most popular biography from Ireland (down from 437th in 2019) and the 15th most popular Irish Athlete.
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