Phil Coleman (athlete)
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Full name | Philip Yates Coleman | ||||||||||||||
Born | July 10, 1931 Champaign, Illinois, U.S. | (age 92)||||||||||||||
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Philip Yates Coleman (born July 10, 1931 in Champaign, Illinois) is a retired middle- and long-distance runner from the United States. He won the gold medal in the men's 3000 metres steeplechase event at the 1959 Pan American Games. Coleman attended Southern Illinois University (1948 - 1952, spent two years in the Army (where he developed as a steeplechaser, teaching himself to huddle) and becoming inter service steeplechase champion . He attended graduate school at the University of Illinois (1954 – 1964), meanwhile competing for The University of Chicago Track Club. He was a member of the 1956 and 1960 Olympic teams. He retired from running in 1960, wrote an article for Sports Illustrated “Idea of an Amateur, 1962, for which he was awarded the Mohammed Taher trophy by the International Olympic committee. With his thesis, “Mark Twain’s Desperate Naturalism” completed, he received a PhD in Literature in 1964. He taught literature and served as dean at California University of Pennsylvania, retiring in 1998. He now lives in Florida.
Personal bests
- 1500 metres – 3:47.6 (1960)
- Mile – 4:03.8 (1960)
- 2 miles – 8:48.0 (1956)
- Steeplechase – 8:40.8 (1958)
- 5000 metres – 14:23.1 (1960)
References
- Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Phil Coleman". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 2020-04-18.
- 1931 births
- Living people
- American male middle-distance runners
- American male long-distance runners
- American male steeplechase runners
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1956 Summer Olympics
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1959 Pan American Games
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1960 Summer Olympics
- Olympic track and field athletes of the United States
- Sportspeople from Champaign, Illinois
- Track and field athletes from Illinois
- Pan American Games gold medalists for the United States
- Pan American Games medalists in athletics (track and field)
- American middle-distance runner stubs
- American long-distance runner stubs