biography
| name: |
Cerutty, Percy Wells
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pronunciation:
[seruhtee]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1895–1975)
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| biography:
| Athletics coach and trainer, born in Prahan, Melbourne, Victoria, SE Australia. A childhood respiratory disease severely restricted his own athletic career, although in his middle 50s he became a noted distance runner. He was in charge of the Australian team at the 1952 Olympic Games in Helsinki. He coached John Landy (1930– ), who recorded the second ever sub-four-minute mile (1954), and Herb Elliott, and pioneered such concepts as training over sand dunes and the idea of the ‘pain barrier’. |
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