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Annons

Sophia Jowett

Sophia Jowett, PhD, is a professor of psychology at Loughborough University, United Kingdom. Sophia’s work revolves around interpersonal relationships, leadership and communication.
The theme of Sophia’s presentation will be -Communication as the fuel for quality coach-athlete relationships
You can read more about her research here.

Randy Huntington

Randy Huntington is a coach with over four decades of experience coaching.

Among the world-class athletes he been coaching over the years, we have Mike Powell, Willie Banks and with his work in China the last 10 years he has helped a number of chines jumpers to the very top in the world including sprinter Su Bingtian.

In the 2020 Olympic Games Su Bingtian recorded the fastes 60m split (6.29) in the world on his way to 9.83 in the semifinal.

Randy will present on sprint and jumps.

Andreas Behm

Andreas coached Aries Merritt to Olympic gold 2012 and world record on the 110m hurdles and been working with a number of top hurdlers in the world. After a number of years in the US collage system Andreas now workinng for Altis world as a coach and educator of coaches all over the world.

Andreas will present on hurdles.

Jurdan Mendiguchia

Jurdan Mendiguchia is an expert in injury prevention and rehabilitation, particularly in hamstrings. He has published many research papers in this area, his expertise is asked for from a number of elite sports team’s around the world.

Jurdan is the Director of ZENTRUM Sport 

Matthew Wood

Dr. Matthew Wood is a lecturer in Sport Coaching and Performance Analysis at University of Northampton and has a background as a sprint/hurdles coach and coach developer. As a coach Matt developed an interest in how an Ecological Dynamics rationale of learning may help him develop his coaching. That led him into starting his PhD studies on how adopting a constraints-led approach can change the practice of developing coaches. Matt will help us understand more about how we use ideas from an ecological approach to motor-learning and with that help athletes develop their technique. Also, how coaches can benefit in their development as coaches.

Jonathan Edwards

Jonathan Edwards is the greatest triple jumper of all time.

Edwards jumped the still standing world record of 18,29m in Gothenburg, Sweden at the World Championships in 1995. Earlier that season he had jumped an even more amazing 18,43m albeit in a +2,4 tailwind.
In 2000 he won his first Olympic gold aged 34 and in 2001 he jumped 17.92 to win his second World Championship.
Jonathan Edwards revolutionized the triple jump with a focus on speed and a technique and efficiency that facilitated keeping that speed better than anyone through the phases.

Edwards will present both a jumps lecture in theory and practise, and a lecture focusing on his career.