Coach: Yes Club: Dundee Hawkhill Gender: Female Date of Birth: 24/05/1964 Age Group: V45 County: Scotland East Region: Scotland Nation: Scotland

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Liz McColgan (nee Lynch) was a talented youngster, regularly battling with her great rival Yvonne Murray in cross-country events but McColgan’s career began to blossom when she was offered a sports scholarship to Idaho University, before transferring to Alabama University, where she won a prestigious NCAA title but her indoor title in 1986 was her last, as she was barred from competition due to unintentionally breaching prize-money laws. However, McColgan quickly made an impression on the international circuit, winning the Commonwealth 10000m title in front of her homecrowd in Edinburgh, defeating New Zealand’s Anne Audain in a tremendous race. One month later, McColgan attempted an ambitious 3000/10000m double at the European Championships in Stuttgart. Liz was 12th in the 3000m (9:02.42 and 8:58.85 in the heats) and 7th in the 10000m (31:49.46), where she was lapped by eventual champion Ingrid Kristiansen but this was only a tiny footnote in a prolific career. Six months later, McColgan won a silver medal at the World Cross Country Championships in Warsaw, in one of the greatest fields ever assembled for a cross-country race. McColgan succumbed to defeat to the hands of Annette Sergent but gained the satisfaction of defeating Kristiansen into the bronze medal position, as well as finishing ahead of luminaries including her nemesis on the track, Olga Bondarenko. McColgan had a good Grand Prix campaign but at the World Championships, McColgan finished just outside the medals. Liz allowed Kristiansen to make an early break and could not bridge the lead of the Norwegian and acted as a pacemaker for the second group. Heartbreakingly for Liz, she was outsprinted on the last lap by the Soviet Olga Zhupieva and East Germany’s Katrin Ullrich. McColgan improved her British and Commonwealth record to 31:06.99 at the Bislett Games in July 1988 and at the Olympic Games, Liz won a hard fought silver medal in Seoul. In a dramatic race, Kristiansen dropped out at 3km with a foot injury when she was in the lead and a similar scenario unravelled, as McColgan led the chasing group comprised of Bondarenko and Zhupieva, before catching Ullrich after 5km. McColgan continued to lead and successfully dropped Ullrich and Zhupieva but Liz could not shake off the persistent figure of the tiny Bondarenko. The Soviet attacked with 200m remaining and McColgan had to settle for a silver medal behind the diminutive Russian, whose gutsy break proved to be decisive. In 1989, McColgan won silver at the World Indoor Championships behind Elly van Hulst, before setting a 10km world record of 30:38 in Orlando just one week later. In 1990, McColgan defended her Commonwealth 10000m title, as well as taking 3000m bronze, but soon after this triumph, Liz chose to abandon the rest of the year to start a family but returned with a vengeance in the 1991 campaign. Just weeks after giving birth, McColgan won bronze at the World Cross Country Championships in Antwerp and broke the 31-minute barrier for the first time over 10000m in June, running 30:57.07 in Hengelo, as well as setting a 3000m PB in Nice. McColgan started as the pre-race favourite for the World Championships in Tokyo and Liz had prepared meticulously by training in humid conditions in Florida. After running the heats in flats, McColgan made her intentions clear in the final by leading from the gun, churning out consecutive laps of 74/75-seconds, which dropped everyone by 7km expect for Ethiopia’s Derartu Tulu but soon after, Tulu was broken and McColgan was in the clear at 8km. McColgan crossed the line for the gold medal, setting a winning time of 31:14.31, defeating China’s Zhong Huandi by more than 100m. Two months later, Liz won her debut marathon in New York, setting the world’s fastest debut of 2:27:32. However, McColgan could not reproduce the same form in 1992. A cold affected her chances at the World Cross Cou

Athletes Coached

Name	Club	AG	Sex	Best Event	Rank	AG	Year	Performance
Katie Anderson	Dundee Hawkhill	U13	W	800	9	U13	2010	2:25.82
Iona Brodie	Dundee Hawkhill	U17	W	800	38	U17	2010	2:15.57
Laura Brown	Dundee Hawkhill	SEN	W	800	95	ALL	2010	2:11.21
Amanda Campbell	Livingston	U20	W	800	12	U20	2010	2:10.50
Howell Craske	Dundee Hawkhill	U20	M	2000SC	86	U20	2010	6:52.6
Jamie Crowe	Dundee Hawkhill	U17	M	3000	66	U17	2010	9:09.7
Tom Cunningham	Blackpool, Wyre & Fylde	U23	M	1500	205	ALL	2010	3:54.83
Alyson Dixon	Chester-le-Street	SEN	W	HM	8	ALL	2010	74:04
Rebecca Finch	Victoria Park City of Glasgow	U23	W	800	281	ALL	2010	2:17.5
Adam Guthrie	Dundee Hawkhill	U20	M	1500	276	U20	2010	4:14.87
Sarah Kelly	Dundee Hawkhill	U20	W	800	1	U20	2010	2:02.89
Gareth Lamb	Dundee Hawkhill	U20	M	400	105	U20	2010	50.65
Morag MacLarty	Central	SEN	W	1500	11	ALL	2010	4:10.86
Eilish McColgan	Dundee Hawkhill	U23	W	2000SCW	23	ALL	2010	7:21.61
Graeme Oudney	Belgrave	SEN	M	800	45	ALL	2010	1:49.93
Michael Overend	Dundee Hawkhill	U17	M	800	29	U17	2010	1:56.36
Lily Partridge	Aldershot, Farnham & District	U20	W	5000	3	U20	2010	16:24.50
Jenny Tan	Fife	U20	W	800	3	U20	2010	2:05.21
Matthew White	Dundee Hawkhill	U20	M	2000SC	62	U20	2010	6:37.96

Best known performances

Event PB 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1991 1992 1993 1995 1996 1997 1998 2003 2004 Event 2005 2006 2007 1000 2:41.8 2:41.8 1000 1500 4:01.38 4:13.13 4:01.38 4:10.16i 1500 Mile 4:26.11 4:33.91 4:35.06i 4:26.11 Mile 2000 5:40.24 5:43.40 5:40.24 5:46.29i 2000 3000 8:34.80i 8:46.53 8:34.80i 8:38.23 8:43.34i 9:31.11i 3000 2Miles 9:50.85i 9:50.85i 2Miles 5000 14:59.56 15:41.58 15:01.08 15:03.17i 14:59.56 5000 10000 30:57.07 31:41.42 31:19.82 31:06.99 30:57.07 31:26.11 31:40.14 10000 5K 14:57 14:57 15:18 5K Event PB 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1991 1992 1993 1995 1996 1997 1998 2003 2004 Event 2005 2006 2007 8K 24:48 24:48 8K 5M 25:25 25:25 5M 10K 30:39 32:24 31:07 30:59 30:39 31:19 42:00 10K 37:10 37:11 12K 39:20 39:20 12K 15K 47:43 52:29 47:43 15K 10M 52:00 52:14 52:00 56:12 10M 20KSPLIT 65:22 65:22 20KSPLIT HM 67:11 70:59 69:15 67:11 69:49 70:08 69:50 HM 84:53 80:15 25KSPLIT 1:25:45 1:25:45 25KSPLIT Event PB 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1991 1992 1993 1995 1996 1997 1998 2003 2004 Event 2005 2006 2007 30KSPLIT 1:43:18 1:43:18 30KSPLIT 20MSPLIT 1:51:27 1:53:01 1:51:27 20MSPLIT Mar 2:26:52 2:27:32 2:27:38 2:29:37 2:30:32 2:27:54 2:26:52 2:26:54 Mar 2:50:38

Performances	Submit
1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1991 1992 1993 1995 1996 1997 1998 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007
Default Date (Latest first) Date (Earliest first) Event Position Age Graded Points

2007 V40 Dundee Hawkhill
Event	Perf				Pos				Venue	Meeting	Date
10K	37:11						1		Glasgow	Norwich Union City vs City 10K	3 Jun 07
HM	80:15				148		20	2	Newcastle-South Shields	BUPA Great North Run	30 Sep 07
HM	84:45						1		Dundee	Dundee City Half Marathon	1 Jul 07
Mar	2:50:38				400		25	1	London	Flora London Marathon	22 Apr 07
2006 V40 Dundee Hawkhill
Event	Perf				Pos				Venue	Meeting	Date
HM	84:53				32				Newcastle-South Shields	Great North Run	1 Oct 06
2005 V40 Dundee Hawkhill
Event	Perf				Pos				Venue	Meeting	Date
10K	37:10				1				Strabane	STRABANE 10km	23 Jul 05
2004 V35 Dundee Hawkhill
Event	Perf				Pos				Venue	Meeting	Date
3000	9:31.11	i			1				Glasgow	DM HALL SCOTTISH SENIOR CHAMPIONSHIPS Kelvin Hall, Glasgow	15 Feb 04
10K	42:00				3				Balmoral	GREAT CALEDONIAN RUN	8 May 04
2003 V35 Dundee Hawkhill
Event	Perf				Pos				Venue	Meeting	Date
10M	56:12						4	1	Portsmouth	Great South Run	12 Oct 03
1998 SEN Dundee Hawkhill
Event	Perf				Pos				Venue	Meeting	Date
5M	25:25				2				Balmoral	Compaq	11 Apr 98
HM	69:50				5				Lisbon, POR	-	15 Mar 98
Mar	2:26:54				2				London	London Marathon	26 Apr 98
1997 SEN Dundee Hawkhill
Event	Perf				Pos				Venue	Meeting	Date
10M	52:00				1				Portsmouth	GSR	5 Oct 97
HM	70:08				3				Newcastle-South Shields	GNR/BAF	14 Sep 97
HM	70:16				3				Lisbon, POR	-	9 Mar 97
Mar	2:26:52				2				London	Flora London Marathon	13 Apr 97
1996 SEN Dundee Hawkhill
Event	Perf				Pos				Venue	Meeting	Date
5K	15:18				3				Portsmouth	BUPA	13 Apr 96
Mar	2:27:54				1				London	AAA/BAF	21 Apr 96
Mar	2:30:50				3				Tokyo, JPN	-	17 Nov 96
1995 SEN Dundee Hawkhill
Event	Perf				Pos				Venue	Meeting	Date
5000	14:59.56				3				Hechtel, BEL	NvdA	22 Jul 95
10000	31:40.14				6				Gothenburg, SWE	WC	9 Aug 95
HM	69:49				3				Lisbon, POR	-	12 Mar 95
Mar	2:30:32				7				Tokyo, JPN	-	19 Nov 95
Mar	2:31:14						5		London	London Marathon	2 Apr 95
1993 SEN Dundee Hawkhill
Event	Perf				Pos				Venue	Meeting	Date
10K	31:19				1				Forfar	-	4 Apr 93
Mar	2:29:37				3				London	London Marathon	18 Apr 93
1992 SEN Dundee Hawkhill
Event	Perf				Pos				Venue	Meeting	Date
3000	8:43.34	i			1				Birmingham	vUSA	14 Mar 92
5000	15:03.17	i			1				Birmingham	AAAs Junior Championship	22 Feb 92
10000	31:26.11				5				Barcelona, ESP	OG	7 Aug 92
8K	24:48				1				Washington DC, USA	Nike	10 May 92
10M	52:14				1				Sandiacre	Erewash	6 Sep 92
20KSPLIT	65:22	+			m				Newcastle-South Shields	GNR/WC-HM	20 Sep 92
20KSPLIT	67:11	<+			1				Tokyo, JPN	HM	26 Jan 92
HM	67:11				1				Tokyo, JPN	-	26 Jan 92
HM	68:42				1				Dundee	-	11 Oct 92
HM	68:53				1				Newcastle-South Shields	GNR/WC	20 Sep 92
25KSPLIT	1:25:45	+			m				Tokyo, JPN	mar	15 Nov 92
30KSPLIT	1:43:18	+			m				Tokyo, JPN	mar	15 Nov 92
20MSPLIT	1:51:27	+e			m				Tokyo, JPN	mar	15 Nov 92
Mar	2:27:38				1				Tokyo, JPN	-	15 Nov 92
1991 SEN Dundee Hawkhill
Event	Perf				Pos				Venue	Meeting	Date
3000	8:38.23				1				Nice, FRA	Nik/GP	15 Jul 91
10000	30:57.07				1				Hengelo, NED	APM	25 Jun 91
10000	31:14.31				1				Tokyo, JPN	WC	30 Aug 91
10000	31:54.67				3	h2			Tokyo, JPN	WC	27 Aug 91
5K	14:57				1				Chicago IL, USA	-	27 Oct 91
5K	15:11				1				Carlsbad CA, USA	-	14 Apr 91
HM	69:15				2				Exeter	GWR	5 May 91
20MSPLIT	1:53:01	+			m				New York NY, USA	mar	3 Nov 91
Mar	2:27:32				1				New York NY, USA	-	3 Nov 91
1989 SEN Dundee Hawkhill
Event	Perf				Pos				Venue	Meeting	Date
1500	4:10.16	i			6				Budapest, HUN	WI	4 Mar 89
2000	5:46.29	i+			m				Budapest, HUN	WI-3000	4 Mar 89
3000	8:34.80	i			2				Budapest, HUN	WI	4 Mar 89
10K	30:39				1				Orlando FL, USA	RLob	11 Mar 89
1988 SEN Dundee Hawkhill
Event	Perf				Pos				Venue	Meeting	Date
10000	31:06.99				1				Oslo, NOR	Bisl/GP	2 Jul 88
10000	31:08.44				2				Seoul, KOR	OG	30 Sep 88
10K	30:59				1				Orlando FL, USA	RLob	6 Feb 88
15K	47:43				1				Tampa FL, USA	Gasp	13 Feb 88
1987 SEN Dundee Hawkhill
Event	Perf				Pos				Venue	Meeting	Date
1000	2:41.8	e+			m				Oslo, NOR	Bisl/GP-1500	4 Jul 87
1500	4:01.38				3				Oslo, NOR	Bisl/GP	4 Jul 87
Mile	4:26.11				2				Crystal Palace	PTG/GP	10 Jul 87
2000	5:40.24				1				Crystal Palace	DCrest	22 Aug 87
5000	15:01.08				1				Oslo, NOR	NorG	5 Aug 87
10000	31:19.82				5				Rome, ITA	WC	4 Sep 87
10K	31:07				1				Orlando FL, USA	RLob	21 Feb 87
10K	31:13				1				Davenport IA, USA	-	10 Oct 87
10K	31:27				1				Dundee	-	12 Apr 87
12K	39:20				1				Irving TX, USA	StPaul	17 Oct 87
1986 U23 Dundee Hawkhill
Event	Perf				Pos				Venue	Meeting	Date
SHORT3000	9:05.64	i			2				Oklahoma City OK, USA	NCAA	15 Mar 86
1500	4:13.13				2				Edinburgh	Sco	14 Jun 86
Mile	4:35.06	i			1				Baton Rouge LA, USA	SEC	2 Mar 86
2000	5:43.40				3				Gateshead	vCom	5 Aug 86
3000	8:46.53				1				Birmingham	Pearl	18 Jul 86
3000	9:15.91	i			1				Bloomington IN, USA	-	1 Feb 86
2Miles	9:50.85	i			1				Baton Rouge LA, USA	SEC	1 Mar 86
5000	15:41.58	+			m				Stuttgart, GER	EC-10k	30 Aug 86
10000	31:41.42				1				Edinburgh	CG	28 Jul 86
10000	31:49.46				7				Stuttgart, GER	EC	30 Aug 86
10000	32:59.59				1				Cwmbran	UK	26 May 86
10K	32:24				1				Mobile AL, USA	Azalea	8 Mar 86
HM	70:59				1				Dundee	-	12 Oct 86
1985 U23 Dundee Hawkhill
Event	Perf				Pos				Venue	Meeting	Date
Mile	4:33.91				7				Edinburgh	EdinG	23 Jul 85
15K	52:29				19				Tampa FL, USA	Gasp	9 Feb 85

Total Performances: 82

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