Pat Clohessy

Pat Clohessy was an Australian distance runner and coach whose athletic career included consecutive NCAA three-mile titles for the University of Houston in 1961 and 1962, followed by the 1963 AAU three-mile championship. He later became one of Australia’s leading distance-running coaches, guiding Rob de Castella to the inaugural world marathon title in 1983 and serving as Australia’s distance coach at the 1980 and 1984 Olympic Games. Clohessy was also the Australian Institute of Sport’s distance coach from 1982 to 1994 and was inducted into the Sport Australia Hall of Fame in 1997.