Percy Cerutty
Coach, Deceased Person
1895 – 1975
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Who was Percy Cerutty?
Percy Wells Cerutty was one of the world's leading athletics coaches in the 1950s and 1960s.
The eccentric Australian pioneered a home-spun system of 'Stotan' training, embracing a holistic regime of natural diets, hard training in natural surrounds, and mental stimulation.
Cerutty coached Herb Elliott to a series of world record performances, culminating in an Olympic gold medal in the 1960 Rome Games.
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