Ellison Goodall

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Ellison Goodall
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Women's athletics
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IAAF World Cross Country Championships
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 1979 Limerick Senior race

Ellison Goodall Bishop (born October 12, 1954) is an American former long-distance runner. [1] She twice represented the United States at the IAAF World Cross Country Championships, winning a bronze medal and leading the American women to team gold at the 1979 edition, then sharing in a team bronze medal in 1980. [2]

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She attended Duke University and won All-American honours for the Duke Blue Devils in both track and cross country. She was the second woman to be inducted into Duke University athletic hall of fame. [3] She later appeared in a documentary on former Duke track coach Al Buehler, Starting at the Finish Line: The Coach Buehler Story. [4]

Goodall was only the second ever women's champion in the 10,000-meter run at the USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships, succeeding Peg Neppel to take the title in 1978. [5] [6]

Her half marathon winning time of 1:15:01 at a race in Winston-Salem, North Carolina was a world record for several months, taking the best mark from Miki Gorman before Kathy Mintie broke the record that same year. [7] On the professional road running circuit she was the 1979 winner of the Falmouth Road Race, won the 1982 Boston Milk Run, and placed sixth at the 1980 Boston Marathon with a time of 2:42:23 hours. [8]

International competitions

YearCompetitionVenuePositionEventNotes
1979 World Cross Country Championships Limerick, Ireland3rd Senior race 17:18
1stSenior team29 pts
1980 World Cross Country Championships Paris, France35th Senior race 16:42
3rdSenior team49 pts

National titles

References

  1. Ellison Goodall Archived 2017-01-26 at the Wayback Machine . All Athletics. Retrieved on 2016-03-06.
  2. World Cross Country Championships. GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 2016-03-06.
  3. Ellison Goodall Bishop. Duke Blue Devils. Retrieved on 2016-03-06.
  4. Ellison Goodall Bishop. IMDB. Retrieved on 2016-03-06.
  5. United States Championships (Women). GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 2016-03-06.
  6. Ellison Goodall. Track and Field Brinkster. Retrieved on 2016-03-06.
  7. 12th IAAF World Championships In Athletics: IAAF Statistics Handbook. Berlin 2009 Archived August 6, 2009, at the Wayback Machine IAAF, pp. 546, 563, 565, 651, and 653. Retrieved on 2016-03-06.
  8. Ellison Goodall. Association of Road Racing Statisticians. Retrieved on 2016-03-06.
Records
Preceded by Women's Half marathon World record holder
10 March 1979 – 23 September 1979
Succeeded by