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In 1980, Kersee moved to the University of California, Los Angeles, where he was an assistant coach for four years.He then became the head coach in 1984 and established his reputation for training elite level athletes, such as Florence Griffith Joyner, Gail Devers, Jackie Joyner-Kersee, Al Joyner, Allyson Felix, and, more recently, Athing Mu and Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone.
From April 2002 to November 2003, Huntington was employed by USA Track & Field where he was named as its first-ever Sports Science Technical Coordinator where he was master coach for horizontal jumps. During this time he was based in the United States Olympic Training Center in Chula Vista, California. However, he left as he felt the job did ...
Charles Merrick Francis (October 13, 1948 – May 12, 2010) was a Canadian Olympic sprinter and sprint coach most noteworthy for being the trainer of sprinter Ben Johnson, the first competitor to be stripped of an Olympic gold medal for using banned drugs, and sprinters Angella Issajenko, Mark McKoy, and Desai Williams.
Glen Mills OD (born 14 August 1949) is a sprinting athletics coach from Jamaica.He was the head coach of the Jamaican Olympic athletics team between 1987 and 2009. [1] He is currently head coach of the Racers Track Club which includes world and Olympic record holder Usain Bolt and the 100-metre World Champion Yohan Blake.
In 1892, Murphy returned to Yale where he served as coach and trainer of the track team and trainer of the football team. Over the next 11 years, Murphy moved back-and-forth between Yale (1892–1896, 1901–1905) and the University of Pennsylvania (1896–1901, 1905–1913). After turning Yale into the dominant power in track and field, Murphy ...
Johnson was part of the U.S. Track and Field Olympic coaching staff in 1976, 1984, 2004, and 2008. [2] Johnson was elected to the USA Track Coaches Hall of Fame in 1997. [ 1 ] [ 10 ] Johnson also was a former director of the ARCO Olympic Training Center for the United States Olympic Team (there at its opening in 2003-04) and acted as High ...
Johnson met coach Charlie Francis and joined the Scarborough Optimists track and field club, training at York University. Francis was a Canadian 100 metres sprint champion himself (1970, 1971 and 1973) and a member of the Canadian team for the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich. Francis was also Canada's national sprint coach for nine years.
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