Ron Hill
Ron Hill (actually Ronald Hill, born September 25, 1938 in Accrington, Lancashire ) is a former British long-distance runner. The 1.67 m wide and its competition time 61 kg heavy Hill 1969 European Champion in the marathon.
Sporting career
His first international launch graduated Hill at the European Championships 1962 in Belgrade, when he gave up in the marathon. At the Olympic Games in Tokyo in 1964 29:53,0 minutes after Hill finished 18th place in the 10,000 - meter race in the marathon, he was 19th in 2:25:34,4 hours. Hill reached number 5 in the six- mile run at the British Empire and Commonwealth Games in 1966 in Kingston. A month later at the European Championships in Budapest, he finished 12th in the marathon in 2:26:04,8 hours.
At the 1968 Olympic Games Hill stepped in height from Mexico City to just over 10,000 meters, finishing in seventh place in 29:53,2 minutes. In the heat of Athens he won at the European Championships 1969 in 2:16,47,8 hours before the Belgian Gaston Roelants and the Scotsman Jim Alder. He was so after Brian Kilby and Jim Hogan of the third British marathon champion of Europe in the 1960s.
Hill in 1965 improved the world record for 15 miles and over 25 kilometers. In 1968 he increased twice the world record in the 10 - mile run. In 1970, he improved the British record in the marathon, when he won the Boston Marathon in 2:10:30 hours and the distance record improved to three minutes. In the British Commonwealth Games he won on July 23, 1970 in Edinburgh in 2:09:28 hours with nearly three minutes ahead of Jim Alder. Until then, only the Australian Derek Clayton was a faster marathon succeeded; Clayton was also in Edinburgh at the start, but gave up.
At the European Championships 1971 in Helsinki, the Belgian Karel Lismont won the Brit Trevor Wright, Hill was third in 2:14:34,8 hours. A year later, Hill took the sixth place in the Olympic marathon in Munich. In the British Commonwealth Games in 1974, he was again 18 with 21 minutes behind the winner Ian Thompson.
Life after competitive sports
Ron Hill studied chemistry at Manchester University and a doctorate later. He specialized in textiles and built a sports clothing company under the name of Ronhill and Hilly Clothing Company on.
1971 MBE he was awarded the Order. In 1981 he wrote his autobiography A long Hard Road. In two volumes, he describes in detail his daily training since 1964, he never gave up even after his career and continues .. In 1996, he ran the hundredth Boston Marathon his last marathon race today. From 115 marathons in 55 states, he ran 112 under 2:50 hours and 29 sub 2:20.