Alberto Salazar Biography
Alberto Salazar was the best American marathoner of the early- to mid-80s. After a top-flight career as a distance runner at the University of Oregon, winning the 1978 NCAA cross-country race, Salazar made his marathon début at the 1980 New York Marathon. He won the race again in 1981-82, and in 1981 his time of 2-08:13 was thought to be a world marathon record, but after re-measurement, the course was found to be slightly short.
Salazar also won the 1982 Boston Marathon in a dramatic duel with Dick Beardsley, called the “Duel in the Sun”. On the track, he was TAC 10K champion in 1981 and 1983, and on the roads, he won numerous races short of the marathon distance. His attempt at Olympic honors in 1984 was hampered by injury, which also likely prevented him from making the 1988 Olympic Team. In the early 90s, Salazar began running some ultra-distance events and won the 1994 Comrades Marathon in South Africa, over 90 km, (56 miles). Salazar has worked as a consultant to Nike and a personal coach to many distance runners.
Alberto Salazar Age
He was born on August 7, 1958, in havan Cuba. He is 61 years old of age.
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Alberto Salazar and Mary Cain
Former Nike Oregon Project athlete and 2014 world junior champion Mary Cain is speaking out against her ex-coach, Alberto Salazar, and Nike, over a cycle of abuse she claims to have endured in the pursuit of excellence in track and field. In a video op-ed for the New York Times, Mary Cain, 23, says that Salazar demanded that she lose weight in order to compete at an optimal level and would scold her if she was above the 114 pounds that he outlined for her. The unrelenting pressure by Salazar on the former teen phenom became so intense that Cain says she developed suicidal thoughts and began practicing self-harm by cutting herself. “Some people saw me cutting myself and nobody really did anything or said anything,” she said.
“I joined Nike because I wanted to be the best female athlete ever,” said Cain. “Instead, I was emotionally and physically abused by a system designed by [Salazar] and endorsed by Nike.” Among Cain’s accusations against Salazar is that the coach asked her to break anti-doping rules in order to keep her weight down. Cain claims that Salazar, who on Sep. 30 was given a four-year ban for violating anti-doping rules, asked her to take birth control pills and diuretics to promote weight loss. Diuretics are prohibited by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA).
When contacted by the New York Times, Salazar denied Cain’s accusations. He is currently appealing his four-year ban. The Nike Oregon Project was dissolved last month in the wake of its coach and founder’s ban by Nike CEO Mark Parker. Parker, who has publicly supported Salazar in his appeal, announced he would be stepping down from his role in early 2020. At just 17, Cain became the youngest American to ever make a World Championship team when she finished second in the 1500m at USAs in 2013. That season she also broke American junior records in the 800m, 1500m and indoor mile. She proceeded to advance all the way to the 1500m final in Moscow where she placed ninth. In late 2013 she joined Salazar’s group and in 2014 she moved out to Portland, Oregon, full-time.
Under Salazar’s tutelage, Cain won the 3000m world junior title the following season and once again finished runner-up at USAs in the 1500m. But her success fell off in subsequent years, and in 2016 she left the Oregon Project. For the first time, Cain is revealing the circumstances surrounding her exit from the maligned group, a program that she says put her physical and mental health in danger. Cain blames Salazar’s weight loss demands and win-at-all-cost culture for her going without a period for three years and as a result, making her more susceptible to injury. Cain says she broke five different bones as an athlete. Cain cites a humiliating experience at the 2015 Hoka One One Distance Classic where she says Salazar yelled at her, in front of others at the meet, after a poor performance and accused her of gaining five pounds. It was then that she told the coach that she had been cutting herself, which Cain says was not taken seriously.
Alberto Salazar Education
Born in Cuba, Salazar grew up in Wayland, Massachusetts. His father Jose was a close friend of Fidel Castro and a 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 a 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”.
he went to the University of Oregon where he won numerous All American honors, was a member of the 1977 NCAA cross country championship team, and won the individual NCAA cross country championship in 1978.
Alberto Salazar Coach
Salazar was 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 has named in a joint BBC Panorama and ProPublica investigation into doping allegations. In 2019 Salazar was banned for 4 years from athletics for doping offenses. The Nike Oregon Project was shut down in the wake of the controversy.
Alberto Salazar Height | Weight
He stands at a height of 5 feet tall and weighs 141lb (64kg).
Alberto Salazar Net worth | Salary
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