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	US Bazaar.com : Encyclopedia Pages : Liz McColgan
		Liz McColgan, MBE (born March 24, 1964) is a former Scottish long distance track and road running athlete.
		Born Elizabeth Lynch, Liz was brought up in a family of 9 in Dundee of Irish Catholic extraction where she honed her running skills, she won the gold in the 1991 World Championships in Tokyo, Japan at 10,000 metres, and was voted BBC Sports Personality of the Year.
		Her eldest daughter, Eilish McColgan, won the 2004 British cross country championships and is ranked top in Scotland over 800m and 1500m.
	encyclopedia.us-bazaar.com /?title=Liz_McColgan (335 words)

	Liz McColgan
		Liz did not run a competitive 10000m on the track prior to Barcelona, preferring to concentrate her preparation on racing at shorter distances.
		However, although Liz's performances on the track were not significantly slower than they were in her heyday, it had more become the case that the rest of the world had caught her up and passed her by.
		In the World Championships in Gothenburg on 9 August, Liz characteristically set the early pace in the 10000m final, before control of the race was taken over by some of her much younger opponents, who eventually relegated McColgan to sixth place, finishing half a lap behind the winner.
	www.sporting-heroes.net /athletics-heroes/displayhero.asp?HeroID=874 (335 words)

	Liz McColgan
		Liz McColgan is quite simply one of the best distance runners this country has ever produced.
		Liz leads the popular "Banana Army" - our very own running team, whose distinctive yellow T-shirts can be seen at running events up and down the country.
		Liz was named BBC Sports Personality of the Year in 1991.
	www.lrf.org.uk /en/2/lizmccolgan.html (195 words)

	Cycling Scotland
		One of Scotland’s top Olympic athletes, former 10,000m world champion Liz McColgan is swapping her running shoes for a pair of bicycle clips, to show her support for Scotland’s largest mass-participation charity cycle ride, Pedal for Scotland.
		Champion runner Liz McColgan who is a Patron of the charity said: “I’ve been involved with Leukaemia Research for a number of years now, so when I heard they were getting involved in Pedal for Scotland, I really wanted to lend my support.
		Liz was inspired to become patron of the charity because her husband's younger brother died of the disease aged five.
	www.cyclingscotland.org /lizmccolganbackspedalforscotland-050406.aspx (346 words)

	Liz McColgan - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Liz McColgan - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Claiborne, Liz, born in 1929, American business executive and fashion designer.
		She was born Elizabeth Claiborne Ortenberg in Brussels, Belgium.
	encarta.msn.com /Liz_McColgan.html (75 words)

	Scotsman.com Living - Runner-up still won't do (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Liz Lynch won her first Commonwealth gold meal in 1986, at 23, and a World Championship gold in 1991, despite having fallen pregnant with Eilish at the height of her promise.
		McColgan, like Radcliffe, was trained and managed by her husband, Peter, who gave up his own running career for hers.
		McCOLGAN HAS always been reluctant to talk about her upbringing, desperate not to be mythologised as a rags-to-riches legend.
	news.scotsman.com /features.cfm?id=1448562004 (1867 words)

	The Herald (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		IT'S 14 years since Scotland's Liz McColgan ran what was then the world's fastest half marathon in the Great North Run, but her career has been history since she broke a toe in winning the national cross-country title at the age of 39 three seasons ago.
		Adere was timed at 70:03, against the 68:53 McColgan logged on the same course in the fastest of her record-equalling three victories.
		McColgan was impressed by Haining, and pleased to have completed a race for the first time in three years.
	www.theherald.co.uk /sport/71185.html (529 words)

	In London. McColgan Comes Back : Long Day's in the Sun for Europe's Marathoners
		Liz McColgan skirted Buckingham Palace on the Queen's 70th birthday and trod down The Mall, which is always closed to traffic on Sundays, and this Sunday in particular.
		McColgan won it more than two years after hearing that she would never run again.
		To be exact, McColgan's time of 2 hours, 27 minutes, 54 seconds was 22 seconds behind her winning time five years ago in the New York Marathon, then the world's fastest debut.
	www.iht.com /articles/1996/04/22/ian.t_5.php (655 words)

	Girlguiding Scotland - Info - Successful ex members - Interviews
		Young people tend to give up too easily now I think someone as focused as Liz could maybe be really good at keeping this focus on what they really want from life and encourage them that they are able to achieve it if they work hard enough.
		The way she described it reminds me of when i cycle during the summer in and around Dundee and Angus, the breath taking scenery and all the places to visit.
		Liz said she earned her knitting badge by going to an aunt's house who helped her this is the sort of thing that Guiding is meant to do - broaden your horizon and try new activities.
	www.girlguidingscotland.org.uk /information/reviews_mccolgan.htm (280 words)

	Overview of Elizabeth (Liz) McColgan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Born Liz Lynch in Dundee, she won the Dundee Schools Cross-Country Championship in 1976 as a member of the Hawkhill Harriers Club.
		Liz McColgan won a gold medal for the 10,000 metres in the Commonwealth Games held in Edinburgh (1986).
		McColgan was inducted into the Scottish Sports Hall of Fame in 2004.
	www.geo.ed.ac.uk /scotgaz/people/famousfirst573.html (172 words)

	Liz McColgan Squad Launched - Time-to-Run Scotland- Headline and Site news
		Former World and Commonwealth 10,000m gold medallist Liz McColgan will be available to speak about the Liz McColgan Bank of Scotland Endurance Squad, which is officially launched on Tuesday 10 January 2006.
		The squad members and their coaches will meet around four times a year to share ideas on training and competition whilst also have the opportunity to tap into the expertise of Liz McColgan, who as well as numerous track titles also won the London, New York and Tokyo Marathons in a glittering athletics career.
		Liz McColgan said: “All of the members of the squad have shown something that marks them out as athletes of real potential and I hope I will be able to help them realize their dreams in the sport.
	www.time-to-run.co.uk /scotland/news/2006/100106.htm (591 words)

	BBC SPORT \| Scotland \| McColgan takes final bow
		Scotland's Liz McColgan has retired from athletics after being warned she risked being crippled if she continued to run.
		McColgan came to the public's attention as 22-year-old Liz Lynch when she took gold at the 1986 Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh.
		Brendan Foster, the BBC commentator who described McColgan's victory in Tokyo as "the greatest ever by any British distance runner", paid tribute to her contribution to the sport.
	news.bbc.co.uk /sport2/hi/scotland/1485980.stm (403 words)

	The Sun Online - Sport: Liz: Great call Paula
		The Olympic 10,000m silver medallist in 1988, McColgan gave birth to daughter Ellish in 1990 but just eight weeks later was third in the world cross-country championships.
		McColgan, 42, who retired in 2001 and now has FIVE children, said: “It’s one of the better decisions Paula’s made.
		McColgan, who now runs a health club in Scotland with husband Peter, added: “As an elite athlete, it didn’t take me long to get back into shape and taking a break was a great tonic.
	www.thesun.co.uk /article/0,,3-2006320284,00.html (483 words)

	RTÉ.ie Sport - Olympics: McColgan will miss Sydney
		One of Catherina Mc Kiernan's main rivals, Scotland's Liz McColgan will not be taking part in this year's Olympics.
		But because of a foot operation six weeks ago she is not be prepared enough to run the qualifying time of two hours 33 minutes.
		McColgan said, "Although I am back running I will not risk a marathon too soon.
	www.rte.ie /sport/2000/0421/olympics1.html (114 words)

	RTÉ.ie Sport - Radcliffe romps home in Puerto Rico
		Afterwards, Radcliffe admitted she was happy with the win but disappointed not to have beaten Liz McColgan's 13-year-old world record time.
		Her (McColgan) records are so high quality and hard to beat I see it a major task trying to break them.
		It was important to try and beat Liz's record but it was a tough one," said Radcliffe.
	www.rte.ie /sport/2002/0218/radcliffep.html (169 words)

	Liz McColgan
		Three years after the disappointment of failing to win the gold medal at the 1988 Seoul Olympics Liz McColgan returned to the Far East to contest the other 'major' - the world championships.
		It was now Liz McColgan's turn herself to become a British 'first' in the capital of Japan.
		By winning the 10000 metres she became the first British woman to capture a world athletics title on the track.
	www.sporting-heroes.net /athletics-heroes/displayhero.asp?HeroID=1688 (290 words)

	Athletics: Liz hits the road Sunday Mirror - Find Articles
		LIZ McCOLGAN wants to run in next year's Commonwealth Games - and she has chosen the scene of one of her greatest triumphs to help send her on her way.
		McColgan, 36, pulled out of today's Great North Women's race in Manchester but she plans to return for next year's Games.
		She runs November's New York marathon, which she won in 1991 in a record debut time by a woman of 2:27:23, as the first step on the road back to the top.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qn4161/is_20010715/ai_n14535474 (229 words)

	CanadianRunner.com - Liz McColgan: Break Will Benefit Paula Radcliffe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Radcliffe is expecting her first child in January, meaning an enforced absence from top-level meetings, although the marathon world record holder will compete in some low-key events.
		This absence is one McColgan believes will be advantageous as she looks to extend her career.
		McColgan said: "I've known Paula Radcliffe has been wanting a child for quite a while and it is probably a really, really good thing for her to do.
	www.canadianrunner.com /content/view/9908 (110 words)

	newlab (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		She has been in a wheelchair since childhood, was a patient at Woodend Hospital for about three months and makes every effort to support initiatives for the disabled both in her constituency and nationally.
		Liz McColgan, who holds several records and gold medals for 10,000 metres and marathon events, recently returned to training following the birth of her child and bone fusion surgery on her left foot.
		Liz was familiar with the Vicon system as she had been tested by Vicon in the research laboratories of her principal sponsor, ASICS of Kobe, Japan.
	www.viconstandard.org /news/2000no2/newsnewlab/newlab.htm (241 words)

	Courier News Story
		Liz McColgan, one of the UK’s best- ever female distance runners, said that so-called “potted sports,” where it is the taking part that counts, is one of the reasons Scotland fails to excel in sports.
		The idea that there should be no winners or losers at sport has been gaining credence across Scotland, with a total of seven local authorities—including Dundee and Fife—promoting them as an alternative to traditional competitive sports.
		The 1991 BBC TV Sports Personality of the Year said if such a policy was extended throughout the education system there would be a situation where students didn’t try to get the best results, because taking part was the important thing.
	www.thecourier.co.uk /output/2004/07/06/newsstory6092693t0.asp (487 words)

	Girlguiding Scotland - Info - Successful ex members - Interviews
		Britain's most successful female distance runner, Liz has won nine medals.
		Liz is from Dundee and was a Brownie.
		My other charity is Diabetes UK as my five year old son was diagnosed two years ago with Diabetes and is now insulin dependent.
	www.girlguidingscotland.org.uk /information/info_interview_mccolgan.htm (640 words)

	BBC SPORT \| Athletics \| McColgan backs Radcliffe double
		Liz McColgan has hit back at suggestions she has criticised Paula Radcliffe's decision to double up at the World Athletics Championships.
		The ex-world 10,000m champion says she fully backs Radcliffe's decision to run the 10,000m and marathon in Helsinki.
		In previous years McColgan, who won the 10,000m world title in 1991, has criticised Radcliffe for attempting to run both the 10,000m and marathon.
	news.bbc.co.uk /sport1/hi/athletics/4730971.stm (201 words)

	Ananova - McColgan claims national title
		Former world cross-country silver medallist Liz McColgan won her first-ever national title with a runaway success in Perth on Saturday.
		The 39-year-old was the star of the Scottish Championships where her iron will and self-confidence carried her to a huge victory ahead of Catriona Morrison and Angie Mudge.
		A week after winning the Scottish indoors 3,000 metres gold medal, McColgan showed her versatility, winning by 48 seconds ahead of Stirling University's Morrison in a time of 25 minutes 56 seconds.
	www.ananova.com /sport/story/sm_869063.html?menu= (177 words)

	The Running Network -- National News -- Article
		NEW YORK - (June 8, 2002) - All of the conditions were perfect for a great race at the 31st New York Mini - 60 degree temperatures, cloudless skies, low humidity and the finest field of runners in race history.
		What occurred was indeed one of the greatest 10K races in history, as 25-year-old Moroccan Asmae Leghzaoui ran 30:29 to smash Liz McColgan's world record by ten seconds.
		It was a stunning breakthrough for Leghzaoui, whose top previous credential had been her seventh-place finish in the 10,000 meters at last summer's World Championships.
	www.runningnetwork.com /news/nyminimarathon02final.html (741 words)

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		LIZ McColgan insists she will not compete indoors again despite winning the DM Hall Scottish Indoor Athletics Championships 3,000 metres title at Glasgow’s Kelvin Hall yesterday, in her first track outing in five years.
		LIZ McCOLGAN suffered a rare defeat at Scottish hands when she was beaten into second place at yesterday’s Scottish 4km Cross-country Championships in Glasgow’s Bellahouston Park by junior national champion Freya Murray.
		Following a last minute decision, scottishathletics Chairperson and former World Cross Country Championships medallist Liz McCOLGAN will be racing at Holyrood Park this weekend as part of the 10th Spar European Cross Country Championships in Edinburgh.
	www.time-to-run.com /scotland/s0_data/contScot.html (480 words)

	CNN/SI - Athletics - Foot injury forces McColgan out of Tokyo Marathon. - Friday November 06, 1998 03:37 PM (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The 1996 London Marathon winner sustained a heal injury during her second-place finish in the London Marathon in April and has not raced since.
		The injury failed to improve despite extensive physiotherapy, forcing McColgan to undergo surgery to remove a cyst from her left toe.
		She is not expected to race for at least two months.
	sportsillustrated.cnn.com /athletics/news/1998/11/06/japan_marathon (220 words)

	Liz McColgan and Mike Johnston to manage team in Japan - 24th October 2006 SportFocus news
		Liz McColgan and Mike Johnston to manage team in Japan - 24th October 2006 SportFocus news
		Liz McColgan and Mike Johnston to manage team in Japan
		She is a very well respected figure in the athletics world, especially in Japan because of her endurance running exploits.
	www.sportfocus.com /newspub/story.cfm?ID=20933 (371 words)

	Marathon Manual; Author: Shipton, Cathy; Joint Author: Mccolgan, Liz; Paperback
		With expert advice from world class athlete and Olympic Gold Medallist Liz McColgan as well as the transformational journey of novice Cathy Shipton, this manual for beginners covers all aspects of the training required to compete in a marathon.
		This manual for beginners and improvers covers all aspects of the training required in the run up to the marathon.
		Liz McColgan and Cathy Shipton offer advice from a professional athlete's and beginners perspective respectively, sharing their wisdom on the right training, diet and clothing.
	www.netstoreusa.com /srbooks/000/0007110723.shtml (223 words)

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