Percy Wells CeruttyMBE (10 January 1895 – 14 August 1975) was an Australian athletics coach 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 surroundings, 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.
Percy Wells Cerutty MBE (10 January 1895 – 14 August 1975) was an Australian athletics coach in the 1950s and 1960s. The eccentric Australian pioneered...
Portsea on the Australian shore, at a "rough and tumble training resort", PercyCerutty had, through the 1950s and into the 1960s, applied forms of fartlek...
visionary and iconoclastic coach, PercyCerutty, with inspiration to train harder and more naturally than anyone of his era. Cerutty was known to avoid the track...
Australian Secret Intelligence Service (ASIS) was born in Prahran in 1896. PercyCerutty – Eccentric athletics coach of Herb Elliott was born in Prahran in 1895...
1894 – Pingali Lakshmikantam, Indian poet and author (d. 1972) 1895 – PercyCerutty, Australian athletics coach (d. 1975) 1896 – Yong Mun Sen, Malaysian...
joining the Geelong Guild Athletic Club in 1949. He was coached by PercyCerutty, who trained him to cut his time for running a mile down to 4 minutes...
advice is often seen as complementary to those given at the time by PercyCerutty, an Australian coach, Paavo Nurmi, the Flying Finn, and Mihály Iglói...
Malvern Harriers Athletic Club (and also, from this, a club-mate of PercyCerutty), and a well-performed long distance runner (Holmesby & Main (1996)...
Melbourne press after a comment made by the eccentric athletics coach PercyCerutty, having seen their garish blazers, their slouch hats, and their hats'...
with PercyCerutty who coached the middle-distance running champion Herb Elliott. Stampfl's coaching was regarded as 'scientific' whereas Cerutty's techniques...
Malvern Harriers Athletic Club (and also, from this, a club-mate of PercyCerutty), and a well-performed long distance runner. He represented Australia...
Somerville.) Richmond, under coach Tom Hafey, trained pre-season with PercyCerutty at his facilities in Portsea, Victoria. In the Round 14 match between...
other runners, and cheered on by spectators, with encouragement from PercyCerutty, he pushed on and crossed the finish line in 12:18:16. A year later...
thought ... no, I'll finish up making history, too. I didn't want to do a PercyCerutty kind of thing, so I waited until he finished. After the race, Geoff...
Lawrence Franklin Burgis MVO Principal, Offices of the Cabinet. Charles John Cerutty, Auditor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia. Charles Westwood Earle...
For services to real estate, local government and the community. Percy Wells Cerutty, of Portsea, Victoria. For services to sport and physical fitness...