RUNNING HEROES / herb-elliott

Portrait illustré de Percy Cerutty, entraîneur australien emblématique de la course à pied et du running naturel.

Percy Cerutty, the coach who shaped Herb Elliott with sand dunes

Turning to athletics late in life after a serious illness, the Australian Percy Cerutty invented a radical training method—sand dunes, weights, self-transcendence—which led his student Herb Elliott to 1960 Olympic gold, remaining undefeated in the 1500m throughout his entire career.
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