Mark Croghan

Mark Croghan (Mark Duane Croghan, born January 8, 1968 in Akron, Ohio ) is a retired American hurdler.

At the World Athletics Championships 1991 in Tokyo, he left in the run, and at the Olympic Games in Barcelona in 1992 he reached the semi-finals.

At the finals of the 1993 World Championships in Stuttgart, he was in his personal best time of 8:09,76 min Fifth, although his shoe began to unravel after the first jump in the moat. After a preliminary round -off in the 1995 World Cup in Gothenburg, he finished fifth at the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta and sixth at the World Championships in 1997 in Athens.

Overtraining, injury, and iron deficiency anemia brought his career to a halt after 1998. Although he qualified for the Olympic Games in Sydney in 2000, but resigned in the run- off.

Five times he was U.S. champion (1991, 1994-1997).

Mark Croghan is 1,75 m tall and weighed about his playing days 60 kg. A graduate of Ohio State University was coached by Lee Labadie. He is currently working as a track coach at Kent State University. He is married and the father of two sons since 1997.

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