Burleson and Grelle finished sixth and eighth. Elliott had made a few U. One occurred in , when he won the mile in Bank, who watched that night, too, said that few there that night were especially impressed with Elliott.
Decades later, his place in the history of the sport and the Olympics has grown considerably. He talked about his life turning in the ,seat Melbourne Cricket Grounds, main stadium for the Melbourne Olympics. Until I watched Kuts that day, I was sort of ambivalent about running. The great thing about the Olympics is how it can inspire kids, like it did for me.
The Olympics are fantastic. At a time when only a few men had broken four minutes in the mile, he ran a world-record It inspired me to work even harder to reach it.
He married, and decided he wanted to study at Cambridge. While training under Cerutty, Elliott had worked as a stock clerk for Shell of Australia. Later, Shell awarded him a scholarship to Cambridge. Elliott talked about the money available in track and field today, with some athletes earning incomes in the high six figures.
I never made any money running, zero. All Sections. About Us. A very talented Martin Heath pushed him to the very limit in a varsity race. But Elliott could always find a little extra when it really counted. Many in the comments have mentioned a special connection to Herb, and I will share mine as well.
My father was a young half-miler growing up in Perth in the late 's. Percy Cerutty asked if my father would be interested in pacing the first lap of the Western Australian Championships 1-mile, February 15 My year-old father agreed, coming through the first lap in just over 60 seconds Herb went on to run the first ever sub-four minute mile on a grass track that day Ken Hawthorn, I would love to make contact with you in regards to Percy Cerrutty books.
I am trying to write a book on Percy Cerrutty. Hello Ken. Like man others both on and off this forum I have been trying to find a reasonably priced copy of Herb Elliott's book, The Golden Mile Trengove. I do not intend paying a figure which would make Bezos any richer! Please let me know what kind of pricing we are looking at. Thank you Ken. I was the guy who led that 1 mile race at the Cambridge trials for 3 laps, until Martin Heath overtook me and eventually Herb too.
I really thought that Herb would lose his unbeaten record, but I saw him edge the race from my position of third finisher. All three of us - Herb, Martin and myself were selected to run for Cambridge in the mile varsity match. Herb won that event as well as the yes at the varsity match. All three of us were also in the Cambridge cross country team that beat Oxford that year. The best ever, the golden mile his life story is one of the best sports books ever.
I would like to know who his parents are,maybe a connection!!! Hi I'm writing this from the UK which has been my home for the past 40 years. Herb could run and I remember vividly that he was way ahead of the pack in the school and inter school sports days We use to have a 'kick around' at Aussie Rules footy but I think Herb was to valuable runner so was never included in the first 18 team.
Neither was I! Met up with Herb at the old boys class re-union in Perth, Western Australia Hope we all have a get together for our 8oth birthdays. All the best mate, Ron Edley. Herb Elliot was and remains a truly inspirational Athlete.
It was awesome to see Elliot, having achieved so much in. We need such Hero's. Elliot ran from strength -- Delaney was a kicker -- but both had the same values:commitment,respect and using their gifts both on the track and in life,not least in education. He retired early for his own good reasons -- arguably,we never saw the best of Herb Elliot-- but what we were privileged to see was one of the immortals of athletics. I did some running with Herb's young brother Laurie.
Herb also rowed when he was at school. I've been lucky enough to have been a coach on the last 4 Australian Olympic Rowing Teams, and met Herb again prior to London, when he called in to our training camp in Varese, Italy. Reading about his training beyond the oval was exciting to someone who lived in the middle of the great Southern California sprawl.
Inspired by Herb's connection to nature, over the course of my high school coaching career my teams and many individuals from my Southern California area would spend a full week preparing for the upcoming cross-country season by training twice a day along the hiking trails in Yosemite Valley.
Now, nearly 50 years after the fact, a sizable group of those who trained and improved their love of running and nature get together once a year to refresh old friendships while living the fact that "the older we get the faster we were". Elliot remains my absolute favorite miler of all time! Herb Elliott was my schoolboy hero. I was given his book, the "Golden Mile" when I was 15 and it inspired me to become an athlete.
I went on to compete in two Olympics, ran an English record of 8. In I was in Barcelona for the Olympics as a manager of some international athletes and whilst driving to the Olympic village one evening with my family I spotted a lone figure jogging along theother side of the road. I stopped the car and ran over to stop the runner. It was Herb Elliott and what a gentleman he was. When I introduced myself and told him how he'd inspired me to take up running, I was knocked out when he said he knew of me and had seen me run the Commonwealth Games in NZ!
The great man actually knew who I was! And I treasure having met him. I have a photo somewhere which shows him straining to overtake me at the finish.
He is consequently Australia's only paid university "athletic adviser. Actually, I feel sorry for the man. I would like to wring his neck. Stampfl suggests, obliquely, that the ferocity of Elliott's training under Cerutty is a trifle unsporting. Anyone with a bit of talent can become a champion if he works for hours and hours to the exclusion of everything else.
But at what cost to his complete personality? Just as overeating can become grotesque, over-running can weaken the body. So much of all this is based on ignorance, yet we can find out the effects on the body scientifically. I prefer to define my terms.
I like to know what I'm doing. Arguments notwithstanding, it needed a man of Cerutty's fiery, evangelical nature to tap Elliott's enormous resources and bring them to the surface.
Cerutty clearly filled a need in Elliott's life. He gave Herb an awful lot more than just making him stronger. He puts great stress on character. His standards for a man are very high. Oh, we have had some terrific arguments with him, but he's done the world for Herb.
An arrogant, almost too confident competitor, Elliott by his own admission is inclined to laziness, or, as he puts it, "bludging. He can hardly stand the sight of a stop watch. Cerutty preached manliness and the glory of defying pain. It was a joy-through-strength doctrine. Elliott got the message. Today he is a dedicated convert, ruthlessly disciplining himself. That's when one runner proves himself better than the others. Anyone can do it when he's enthusiastic. It's when you stick to it that you show you're the superior man.
But once you start running it's O. You get a sensation of strain in your muscles and sweat on your brow. It's a manly pleasure. The pain is something real, especially now when you're not quite fit.
Three or four times a week it hurts so much that you're dying to stop. Your muscles are screaming but you keep going. It's a matter of will power. Elliott insists he neither plans how he will run a race nor bothers much about who his competitors are. He remains aloof. It just happens that way. But the person you should really hate is yourself.
It's you that you've got to hurt. It's you who's got to take the punishment. Afterwards I can't remember what I was thinking about exactly. I don't black out the way they say. That's a lot of bull. I am oblivious to the crowd. If I feel someone breezing along at my shoulder, well, competition gears you up.
I just go out and run. I never have a record in mind with a high-class field. All I want to do is win. Why run at all? I aim to keep myself fit and to prove I'm the better man. Doesn't everyone want to show he's better than the next bloke at something?
As part of his preachments of the manly virtues, Cerutty stokes Elliott and his other charges with "character-building" mental exercises out of the great books—particularly Tennyson.
It seems today that you've got to be an intellectual to be able to get back to nature. This is the key to championship running. Elliott has an affectionate but by no means blind admiration for Cerutty. He nearly drives us crazy, saying the same things over and over until you get damned sick of it.
But when he's not here we miss the old beggar. I could train and run on my own but I like to have him around to talk things over. It sometimes gets your back up and you feel like putting him in his place. But, all in all, he's a wonderful bloke. For Cerutty, who has lived most of his life "on the smell of an oil rag," as a Melbourne newsman quaintly puts it, it would have been a useful but unwelcome pile.
He had been shocked at the very thought that "Herb Elliott's gifts may be prostituted on the altar of Mammon. Cerutty has been both a second father and a buddy to Elliott. When young Herb and old Perce set out for Fiji and points east last May for their four furious months abroad, they were a jolly pair of "round-eyed, unpretentious Australians," as Cerutty phrased it, "cast forth into this awfully wide, wide world.
Writing friends in Perth, he bragged: "I completely nonplused my plump Hawaiian hula-girl partner, who exclaimed to me, 'I give in—gee, you must have the spirit of eternal youth! In Los Angeles the "unpretentious Australians" were overwhelmed by their posh, "crazy, crazy, crazy" Sheraton-Town House suite—but were also heard complaining that they could get nothing but "soft asparagus and puffy fish.
Cerutty found Los Angeles "hurrying, scurrying, mad, amazing," with "churches like business offices, business offices like churches" and "6-month-old babies propped in front of television. After Los Angeles, Elliott raced three more mile events in the U. Two were sub-4s, one only scant seconds above 4 minutes.
Herb also had his fun—the joys of a flashy, red Ford convertible; a quick journey to Mexicali; a bit of light gambling in Reno; a look at Yosemite "the most beautiful place in the world" ; and five days roughing it in the High Sierras. Meantime, Perce was fighting a longdistance battle with what he called "the muddle and bungling" and "Gestapolike control" of Australia's Amateur Athletic Union.
In Britain, there was more fun but then a shock when Herb loped in third in the although with a respectable behind Brian Hewson and Mike Rawson in the English championships at London's White City. Reported Cerutty: "I knew Herb had been 'seeing' London—'sampling' might be the better word—because our Herb, like myself, believes in living fully in the fullest sense of the word So we ran poor old Brian into the ground next time—murdered, massacred and mutilated the flower of British athleticism!
And indeed Herb did so, 10 days after his loss, in the finals of the Empire Games; and then again two weeks later at White City with a He set his world records for the mile and 1, meters and, excepting his heat in the Empire Games, ran four sub-4 miles in all four of his mile races. His only other defeat was in the two-miler at Dublin when he paced fellow Australian Albert Thomas to a world record of Thomas' pacing had helped produce Elliott's spectacular Still, Cerutty had complaints, not always reasonable.
They know now they cannot beat him—so, like the Americans, they try to hobble him with hospitality— wear him out playing golf, visiting the Palladium, and much else. He had run out of the usual time limit—and a generous extension—for an amateur to be permitted to accept expenses abroad. Cerutty characteristically raged that "Herb has to get about like a poor student" because of "crazy, criminal" amateur rules.
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