Australian runner

Liam Adams (born 4 September 1986, Melbourne) is an Australian runner. He competed in the Summer Olympics in 2016 in Rio de Janeiro and qualified for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics. Adams came 24th in the Men's marathon in a time of 2:15.51 which was just 7 minutes slower than the eventual winner Eliud Kipchoge of Kenya.

Contents

• 1 Early years
• 2 Achievements
  • 2.1 Personal bests
• 3 References
• 4 External links

Early years

Adams was a very sporty and compe*ive child. He was advised by his primary school teacher to try cross country.

In his second year, Adams won a medal in the nationals but it was only after a few years later that he decided to his training seriously. He began training with local coach Gregor Gojrzewski and this had a significant impact on his career.

As a 17 year old, in 2004, Adams won the national junior 5000m championship. Later that year he won the national junior cross country *le. He finished his junior career with a personal best in the 5000m of 14:30.: :

Achievements

Adams has taken part in several IAAF World Cross Country Championships with his best placing being in 2013 coming in 23rd place. In July 2012 he won the Gold Coast Half Marathon by finishing in front of Harry Summers and Shinichi Yama*a. In October 2018 he won the Melbourne Marathon.

2007: 102nd, IAAF World Cross Country Championships, Mombasa, Kenya2008: 69th, IAAF World Cross Country Championships, Edinburgh, Great Britain2009: 69th, IAAF World Cross Country Championships, Amman, Jordan2010: 37th, IAAF World Cross Country Championships, Bydgoszcz, Poland2011: 79th, IAAF World Cross Country Championships, Punta Umbría, Spain2012: 1st, Gold Coast Half Marathon, Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia2014: 7th, Commonwealth Games Marathon2016: 5th, Orlen Warsaw Marathon2016: 31st, Olympic Games Marathon Rio de Janeiro2017: 9th, Berlin Marathon2018: 5th, Commonwealth Games Marathon2018: 1st, Melbourne Marathon2018: 2nd, Kobe Marathon2019: 1st, Sydney Morning Herald Half Marathon2019: 6th, Gold Coast Marathon2020: 13th, Lake Biwa Marathon2021: 24th, Olympic Games Marathon Sapporo

Personal bests

References

External links

• Liam Adams at World Athletics
• Liam Adams at Athletics Australia
• Liam Adams at Australian Athletics Historical Results
• Liam Adams at the Australian Olympic Committee
• Liam Adams at the International Olympic Committee
• Liam Adams at Olympics.com
• Liam Adams at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)
• Liam Adams at the Commonwealth Games Federation
• Official website