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Global Sports Communication
Global Sports Communication (GSC) is a sports management company based in Nijmegen, Netherlands. It primarily manages elite track-and-field athletes and distance runners, specializing in sprint events, middle-distance events, field events, and road races including the marathon. The company is currently managed by former Dutch Olympian Jos Hermens. Some of the most notable athletes that GSC manages include Eliud Kipchoge, Geoffrey Kamworor, Kenenisa Bekele, and Almaz Ayana. History Global Sports Communication was founded by sports manager and Dutch Olympian Jos Hermens in 1985. Hermens set two world records in the 1970s, and was a member of the 1972 and 1976 Dutch Olympic teams. Hermens founded the company from his small apartment in the Netherlands after learning about sports management from working at Nike in the 1980s. Afterwards, it has grown to represent many of the world's best and most famous runners, including many Olympians. Athletes represented by Global Sports Commun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Privately Held Company
A privately held company (or simply a private company) is a company whose shares and related rights or obligations are not offered for public subscription or publicly negotiated in the respective listed markets, but rather the company's stock is offered, owned, traded, exchanged privately, or Over-the-counter (finance), over-the-counter. In the case of a closed corporation, there are a relatively small number of shareholders or company members. Related terms are closely-held corporation, unquoted company, and unlisted company. Though less visible than their public company, publicly traded counterparts, private companies have major importance in the world's economy. In 2008, the 441 list of largest private non-governmental companies by revenue, largest private companies in the United States accounted for ($1.8 trillion) in revenues and employed 6.2 million people, according to ''Forbes''. In 2005, using a substantially smaller pool size (22.7%) for comparison, the 339 companies on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hyvin Kiyeng
Hyvin Kiyeng Jepkemoi (born 13 January 1992) is a Kenyan steeplechase runner. She won gold at the 2015 World Championships in Athletics and 2011 All-Africa Games, and bronze at the 2017 World Championships and 2012 African Championships in Athletics. At the Olympic Games, she won silver in Rio de Janeiro and bronze in Tokyo. , her personal best time of 9:00.01 ranks her 6th on the world all-time list. Career Early in her career, Jepkemoi competed in a variety of events; her main event was the 5000 metres, in which she placed fifth at the 2011 Kenyan Championships.Tilastopaja profile foHyvin Kiyeng Jepkemoi/ref> At the 2011 All-Africa Games in Maputo she competed in both the 5000 metres and an event completely new to her, the 3000 metres steeplechase; she placed fourth in her main event but won an unexpected gold in the steeplechase, running 10:00.50 and outkicking Ethiopia's Hiwot Ayalew to win Kenya's first athletics gold medal at the Games. In 2012 Jepkemoi started concentratin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jip Vastenburg
Jip Vastenburg (born 21 March 1994 in Loosdrecht) is a Dutch athlete competing in the long-distance events. She finished fourth in the 10,000 metres at the 2014 European Championships. In addition, she won the gold at the 2015 European U23 Championships. Competition record Personal bests Outdoor *1500 metres – 4:10.11 (Heusden-Zolder 2014) *3000 metres – 8:49.50 (Hengelo 2015) *5000 metres – 15:15.77 (Heusden-Zolder 2018) *10,000 metres – 31:35.48 (Palo Alto 2015) *Half marathon A half marathon is a road running event of —half the distance of a marathon. It is common for a half marathon event to be held concurrently with a marathon or a 5K race, using almost the same course with a late start, an early finish or shortcu ... – 1:13:15 (Hague 2014) References 1994 births Living people Dutch female long-distance runners People from Wijdemeren World Athletics Championships athletes for the Netherlands Athletes (track and field) at the 2016 Summer Olympic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yomif Kejelcha
Yomif Kejelcha Atomsa (born 1 August 1997) is an Ethiopian distance runner. He won a silver medal in the men’s 10,000 metres at the 2019 World Athletics Championships in Doha, Qatar. On 3 March 2019, Kejelcha broke the indoor mile world record with a time of 3:47.01. Career Yomif Kejelcha made his international debut at the 2013 World Youth Championships in Donetsk, winning gold in the boys' 3000 metres with a time of 7:53.56. At the Ostrava Golden Spike elite meeting in May 2014 he placed second over 3000 metres in 7:36.28, losing only to Kenya's Caleb Ndiku; he defeated 2008 Olympic medallist Nick Willis and former World Champion Bernard Lagat. Yomif won the 5000 metres at the 2014 World Junior Championships in Eugene, Oregon, running 13:25.19; he also won gold, in the 3000 metres, at the Youth Olympic Games in Nanjing later that summer. He finished 2014 as the world youth leader at both 3000 and 5000 metres, and world junior leader at 3000 metres. Yomif opened his 2015 se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tadelech Bekele
Tadelech Bekele (born 11 April 1991) is an Ethiopian long-distance runner. Career In 2012, she won the České Budějovice Half Marathon with a time of 1:10:54. In this year she also won the Prague Grand Prix with a time of 15:48, the last year that the Prague Grand Prix was a five kilometres run for women. In 2014, she won the Berlin Half Marathon with a time of 1:10:05. In 2017 and 2018 she won the Amsterdam Marathon. In the Berlin Marathon she finished in 4th place in both the 2014 Berlin Marathon and the 2015 Berlin Marathon. In the 2018 London Marathon The 2018 London Marathon was the 38th running of the annual marathon race in London, England, which took place on Sunday, 22 April. Kenyans Eliud Kipchoge and Vivian Cheruiyot won elite races. In the wheelchair races, Britain's David Weir and Aus ... she finished in 3rd place with a time of 2:21:40. Achievements References External links * Living people 1991 births Place of birth missing (living p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Julien Wanders
Julien Wanders (born 18 March 1996) is a Swiss long-distance runner. He currently holds the List of European records in athletics, European record for the half marathon with a time of 59:13, which was set at the Ras Al Khaimah Half Marathon in 2019 and the European record for the 10K run, with a time of 27:13 set in Valencia on January 12, 2020. Wanders spends about half the year training in Iten, Kenya, and the other half training in Europe. Competition record Personal records References External links Official website* * Christof Gertsch: Der Kenianer.' Porträt in: ''Tages-Anzeiger#Das_Magazin, Das Magazin'' Nr. 33, 17. August 2019, S. 16–26. 1996 births Living people Sportspeople from Geneva Swiss male long-distance runners World Athletics Championships athletes for Switzerland Athletes (track and field) at the 2020 Summer Olympics Olympic athletes for Switzerland 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rodgers Kwemoi
Rodgers Kwemoi Chumo (born 3 March 1997) is a Kenyan long-distance runner specialising in the 5000 metres and 10,000 metres. He is the 2018 Commonwealth Games bronze medallist at the longer distance. Born in Kenya's Mount Elgon District, he made his international debut in the junior race at the 2015 IAAF World Cross Country Championships, where his tenth-place finish helped the Kenyan men to the team title. As a result of this, he was signed up by the Asian Kogyo corporate team in Japan. In the 2016 season he won at the Kenyan junior trials and went on to claim the 10,000 m gold medal at the 2016 IAAF World U20 Championships in championship record time. Kwemoi won back-to-back titles at the Tilburg Ten Miles in 2016 and 2017, but failed to make the national team in the latter season. He topped the national trials race for the 2018 Commonwealth Games, however, which led to the 10,000 m bronze medal at the event in Gold Coast, Queensland. In 2019, he placed fourth in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caterine Ibargüen
Caterine Ibargüen Mena Order of Boyaca, ODB (born 12 February 1984) is a retired Colombian Sport of athletics, athlete competing in high jump, long jump and triple jump. Her notable achievements include a gold medal at the 2016 Summer Olympics, silver medal in the 2012 Summer Olympics, two gold medals in the IAAF World Championships in Athletics, and two gold medals in the 2011 Pan American Games and 2015 Pan American Games. Biography Caterine was born in the Urabá Antioquia, Urabá region of Antioquia, where she was raised by her grandmother after her parents separated because of the Colombian conflict (1964–present), armed conflict in Colombia. Her father left for Venezuela and her mother moved to Turbo, Colombia. Caterine first played volleyball and Wilder Zapata, her coach, noticed her skill and suggested she play in Medellín, which had the high-profile Atanasio Girardot Sports Complex as a venue for national and international games. There she began her training in 1996 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lijiao Gong
Gong Lijiao (; born 24 January 1989) is a Chinese Olympic shot putter. Career She finished seventh at the 2007 World Championships, her international debut. At the 2008 Summer Olympics she finished fifth but received the bronze medal later after two competitors were stripped of their medals because of doping violations. She set a personal best throw of 19.46 metres in the qualifying round of the 2008 Olympics; this was the furthest mark for a female Chinese shot putter for over a decade. At the 2009 National Games of China, Gong further improved her personal best to 19.82 m, taking her to tenth place on the all-time Chinese shot putter's list. She won the bronze medal at the 2009 World Championships in Berlin with a personal best of 19.89 metres. She won the gold medal at the 2009 National Games of China in Jinan with a personal best of 20.35 metres. She won the gold medal at the 2009 Asian Athletics Championships in Guangzhou with a personal best of 19.04 met ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Orlando Ortega
Orlando Ortega Alejo (born 29 July 1991) is a Cuban-born Spanish track and field athlete who competes in the 110 metres hurdles. His personal best for the event is 12.94 seconds and he was the silver medallist at the 2016 Olympics. Career Ortega gradually rose through Cuba's ranks from 2007 onwards, taking youth and junior national titles in the hurdles. Ortega's grandmother and his first coach was Cristina Hechavarria, a 4 × 100 meter relay gold medalist at the Athletics at the 1967 Pan American Games. She died when Ortega was young, and in memory of her kept all his medals at her house. He was chosen to compete at the 2010 World Junior Championships in Athletics, but did not finish his heat. In his first year of senior competition in 2011, he established himself nationally with a win at the Barrientos Memorial meeting, winning with a personal best of 13.56 seconds. He improved further at a meeting in Havana running a time of 13.29 seconds. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Isaac Makwala
Isaac Makwala (born 24 September 1985) is a Botswana sprinter who specializes in the 400 metres. Career He was the gold medallist at the Commonwealth Games in 2018. He has also won continental titles at the distance, winning at the 2015 African Games and twice at the African Championships in Athletics (2012, 2014). He has represented his country Botswana at the 2016 Summer Olympics, three times at the Commonwealth Games, and five times at the World Championships in Athletics (2007, 2009, 2013, 2015, 2017). With the Botswana 4 × 400 metres relay team he has won the bronze medal at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, a silver medal at the 2017 IAAF World Relays and medals at the African Games and Championships. His personal best time of 43.72, set 5 July 2015 in La Chaux-de-Fonds was an African continental record and ranks him number 8 on the all-time list, the second fastest non-American. He is also a sub-20 200 metres runner. On July 14, 2017, Isaac Makwala became the first ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abdi Nageeye
Abdi Nageeye (born 2 March 1989) is a Somali-Dutch long-distance runner from the Netherlands. He won the silver medal in the marathon at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. Nageeye placed third at the 2022 New York City Marathon. He is the Dutch national record holder for the 10 km road race, half marathon and marathon. Early life Nageeye was born on 2 March 1989 in Mogadishu, Somalia. At the age of 6, he was resettled as a refugee in the Netherlands. After spending four years in the Netherlands, he then lived with his family in Syria and Somalia. Afterwards, Nageeye returned to the Netherlands via Ethiopia and was adopted by a family in Oldebroek. Nageeye is fluent in Somali, Dutch, Arabic, English, and Amharic. Career Nageeye finished eighth at the 2016 Boston Marathon. Later that year, he finished 11th at the Olympic marathon in Rio. In 2018, he competed in the men's marathon at the 2018 European Athletics Championships held in Berlin, Germany. He did not finish his race. He has a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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