Who is Mark Fountain?
Who is Mark Fountain?
Does anyone Know his sprint speed thru 800 meters? Also, when was he at Univ. Arkansas, and his performance record there, particularly in NCAA champs.
Thanks.
fountain never competed for the Arkansas Razorbacks. He came to Fayetteville to train with famed coach, John McDonnell about three years ago.
He has drastically improved since leaving Australia and coming to train with the hogs.
He never could get elligible to compete. It wasn't a grade issue; it had to do with coming from Australia.
Fountain spent time training under AOUITA when he was Aus national coach.He spoke out against being encouraged to use banned substances and was pretty much ostracised so went to the US.
He ran 3.46 for 1500 at the age of 17 and also ran mid 22 for 200m at 18 or 19.
Given what he went through when he stood up against drug use it is great to see him doing so well.
He has run 1.48ish indoors i think, but could probably go 1.45 i reckon.
Ive seen him run and 800,600,500,400,300,200 session with medium to long rec....1.51...80...67...54...40, 25
Mark has shown himself to be a very good runner but a poor competitor. His only championship was Comm Games when he outdipped Paul Hamblyn (who?) for the bronze medal and was never in contention to beat Willis (an athlete who by times is about the same level)....and even worse at the Australian selection trials he totally choked failing to place in the 1st 3....but still got selected. Lucky he's not running for us - 1st 3 or goodnight.
Maybe he has improved but it smells of the same issues. Against Webb in Boston he had his clock cleaned but against nobody in Tyson he ran a fast time.
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Results below from when Fountain lived in Australia and was poorly coached by the same clown who tried to sidetrack Mottram's career before he woke up to himself. Since then he has moved on and come under the expertise tutelage of John McDonnell and improved considerably - fortunately form him.
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Melbourne Track Classic - Melbourne (AUS)Thursday, March 02, 2000
Official Result
Men - 1500 METRES
Pos Athlete Nat Mark
1 Chirchir William KEN 3:32.55
2 Ngeny Noah KEN 3:33.45
3 Howarth Nick AUS 3:40.08
4 Stevenson Alastair AUS 3:40.09
5 Abdi Youcef ALG 3:41.11
6 Mackevicius Clinton AUS 3:41.77
7 Gorski Mark AUS 3:44.19
8 Field Simon AUS 3:44.71
9 Hane Michael AUS 3:45.72
10 Oneill Andrew AUS 3:46.34
11 Fountain Mark AUS 3:46.72
12 Petersen Scott AUS 3:47.83
13 Ruscheena David AUS 3:48.28
14 Saunders Philo AUS 3:56.37
Kiptoo David KEN DNF
Langat Sammy KEN DNF
Fountain was injured at the trials and was told he shouldnt race but did anyway.....as for Comm Games bad luck on all sides with Mottram going down....Fountain had to jump two people as was lucky not to go down. Boston was Fountains first race for the year Webb already had 3 under his belt. Cant race I dont think so. The boy even won a national junior cross title back in Australia
I think the race you referenced was the one which spurt ran 3.46 as a 17 year old....the date of the race is 2000!!!
Having known Mark for the last 9-10 years, I'll bite here.
The 3:46 was when he was 17 and he'd also run 1:50 a few times that year and just missed out on the QT for world juniors. Cleary a talented athlete. At that stage he was being coached by Tom Kelly (who has coached several successful athletes from 100m to the marathon).
Towards the end of 2000 he switched across to Bruce Scriven (who I presume one previous poster referred to the coach who tried to side track his career). Scrivo has coached many fine athletes in his time; Paul Byrne 1:45.91 WJC in 1994, Georgie Clarke, 4:05, Buster to 3:39 and more recently Sarah Jamieson to 4 flat (#5 in the world in 2006)..plus many other fine athletes. To say he tried to sidetrack anyone careers is totally out of line.
Mark was still quite young when he move across to Said and I think he just got caught up in the false pravardo that Said was spinning at the time. Many athletes switched to his program and none of them are still currently using it (although I did like the idea of multiple hill repeats 40 x 100 much like Coe and Steve Scott did…I’ve got a program if you want it). I’m sure if Mark had his time again, he’d do thing differently there. He spoke freely when there were stories floating around about Said suggesting drug use, when the others that were involved left him out to dry.
He went to Arkansas to visit his girlfriend at the time (now wife Erica 2:02 800) and did try get in to school, but things didn’t quite work out (he had already started Uni here in Australia). Moving to Ark was the best thing that could have happened to him and he is a different person (for the better) than he was when he was living here. Although I do miss going out at night and letting off fireworks with him and another 3:36.20 runner. It was always great when people gave chase!
He has good speed (has run 22.7 at the end of a session with me), but I think he is more of the 1500/5000 type now, but would still run 1:47 in the right race (pb 1:49.2ish). Competitive record needs some work, but he still has many years left of running ahead of him and I’m sure his record will dramatically improve in that time.
You are a troll mate. Poorly coached?? Clown? Sidetracking Mottram? You know nothing.
Bruce Scriven took Mark from a 3.50 guy as a 17 year old, to low 3.40s guy before his was 20. Thats pretty good progress if you ask me.
It was then when Mark moved over to Aouita for a year or so and things blew up with the drug claims.
He then moved to Arkanas and the rest is history.
Scriven took Mottram from 8.20ish at 17 to 7.52 just before he turned 20. Scriven coached Mottram to the Australian 5km rec in 2002 (13.11), 3.52.90 mile, 7.37 3km and to his 2002 World Cup win in Madrid.
It was just after the World Cup in 2002 when Nic Bideau poached Mottram away from Scriven.
So before you make slanderous unnecessary posts like that, educate yourself on Australian distance running history moron.
You are clearly a Bideau lover and are into poaching athletes. I pity you.
Being the gutless poster you are, i dont expect you to come back and eplain your rubbish opinions.
What has he run??
Spurt ran 3.33 two summers ago but was injured I think last year ran around 3.35 a few times. I know he is comming back to Australia to run Melbourne and the Australian Championships. The kid is good!!!
He aint a kid he is 24. Still good PRs tho
I think alot of Aussies were caught up with Said Mania and it has had effects on the development of quite a few runners.
FINAL - Saturday 13 April 2002
1 Craig Mottram VIC 3:41.19
2 Youcef Abdi 77 NSW 3:42.64
3 Clinton Mackevicius 78 VIC 3:43.12
4 Alastair Stevenson 79 QLD 3:43.17
5 Hamish Christensen 72 NZL 3:44.02
6 Lachlan Chisholm 80 NSW 3:45.01
7 Simon Field 79 VIC 3:45.90
8 David Ruschena 74 VIC 3:46.35
9 Mark Fountain 82 VIC 3:47.42
10 Brad Dyson 82 TAS 3:48.18
11 Ben Ruthe 80 NZL 3:50.54
12 Simon Rintel 70 NSW 3:58.69
FINAL - Saturday 5 April 2003
1 Alastair Stevenson 1979 QLD 3:42.99
2 David Byrne 1981 NSW 3:43.03
3 Mark Fountain 1982 VIC 3:44.02
4 Julian Marsh 1973 VIC 3:45.06
5 Michael Shelley 1983 QLD 3:45.15
6 Clinton Mackevicius 1978 VIC 3:46.28
7 Corey Tucker 1978 ACT 3:47.64
8 Jeremy Roff 1983 NSW 3:47.81
9 Kym Morgan 1981 VIC 3:50.64
10 Richard Welsh 1981 VIC 3:56.68
- Youcef Abdi 1977 NSW DNF
- Michael Power
FINAL � Friday 3 February 2006
1 Lachlan Chisholm 1980 NSW 3:40.87
2 Collis Birmingham 1984 VIC 3:41.03
3 Paul Hoffman 1982 NSW 3:41.05
4 Mark Fountain 1982 VIC 3:41.36
5 Jeremy Roff 1983 NSW 3:41.66
6 Corey Tucker 1978 ACT 3:42.08
7 Louis Rowan 1978 VIC 3:42.53
8 Mitchell Kealey 1984 QLD 3:45.95
9 Mark Tucker 1979 VIC 3:46.35
10 Bradley Woods 1986 NSW 3:49.97
11 Timothy Norton 1983 VIC 3:50.56
12 Alastair Stevenson 1979 QLD 3:52.81
Just curious, has Fountain won anything of significance?
aouitafan wrote:
Just curious, has Fountain won anything of significance?
He won the battle for his soul when he told Aouita and his chemicals to piss off.