Todd Harbour
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| Born | March 24, 1959 | ||||||||||||||
| Home town | Port Isabel, Texas | ||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Athletics | ||||||||||||||
| Event | 800 metres – 5000 metres | ||||||||||||||
| College team | Baylor Bears | ||||||||||||||
| Club | Nike | ||||||||||||||
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| Highest world ranking | 9 (1982) | ||||||||||||||
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Todd Harbour (born March 24, 1959) is a retired American middle and long-distance runner.
Career
[edit]Harbour competed collegiately for Baylor University, and later was the head track and field and cross-country coach at for 22 years, before retiring in 2021.[2] In 1979, he won a silver medal in the 1500 metres at the Pan American Games in San Juan, Puerto Rico.[3] He currently holds the collegiate record in the outdoor mile, when he ran 3:50.34 in Oslo in 1981 during his senior year.[4] During college, he was also a five-time All-American and won eight individual Southwest Conference titles. Harbour was inducted into the Baylor Athletic Hall of Fame, the Southwest Conference Hall of Fame and the Rio Grande Valley Hall of Fame. He competed professionally for Nike from 1981 to 1987, and ran 54 sub-4-minute miles during his career.[5]
References
[edit]- ^ Todd Harbour at World Athletics
- ^ Brown, Darby (June 30, 2021). "Baylor's Harbour announces retirement as head track & field coach". kwtx.com. Retrieved February 23, 2023.
- ^ Full results
- ^ "USTFCCCA InfoZone: Records and Lists ::: USTFCCCA". USTFCCCA. Retrieved August 8, 2021.
- ^ "Todd Harbour – Track & Field Coach". baylorbears.com. Baylor University. Retrieved February 23, 2023.
- 1959 births
- Living people
- American male middle-distance runners
- American male long-distance runners
- Baylor Bears men's track and field athletes
- Sportspeople from Cameron County, Texas
- Track and field athletes from Texas
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1979 Pan American Games
- Medalists at the 1979 Pan American Games
- Pan American Games silver medalists for the United States in athletics (track and field)
- United States collegiate record holders in athletics (track and field)