Alberto Salazar
Alberto Salazar (born August 7, 1958) is an American former track coach and long-distance runner. Born in Cuba, Salazar immigrated to the United States as a child with his family, living in Connecticut and then in Wayland, Massachusetts, where Salazar competed in track and field in high school. Salazar won the New York City Marathon three times in the early 1980s, and won the 1982 Boston Marathon in a race known as the "Duel in the Sun". He set American track records for 5,000 m and 10,000 m in 1982. Salazar was later the head coach of the Nike Oregon Project. He won the IAAF Coaching Achievement Award in 2013.
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| Full name | Alberto Sequisha Salazar | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nationality | Cuban-American | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | August 7, 1958 Havana, Cuba | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 5 ft 11 in (180 cm) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 141 lb (64 kg) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Track, Long-distance running | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Event(s) | 5000 meters, 10,000 meters, Marathon | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| College team | Oregon | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Personal best(s) | 5000 meters: 13:11.26 10,000 meters: 27:25.61 Marathon: 2:08:52 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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In 2015, Salazar was named in a joint BBC Panorama and ProPublica investigation into doping allegations. In 2019, Salazar was banned for four years from athletics for doping offenses involving athletes he coached. The Nike Oregon Project was shut down in the wake of the controversy.
In January 2020, the United States Center for SafeSport placed Salazar on its temporarily banned list while it investigated allegations against him involving sexual and emotional misconduct. SafeSport permanently banned him a year and a half later, in July 2021, after it found that he had committed four violations involving emotional and sexual misconduct. In December 2021, Salazar appealed the ban in arbitration but lost, making him permanently ineligible for any activity held by the USOPC or any sport's USOPC-recognized National Governing Body.