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Emma Jane Coburn (born October 19, 1990) is an American middle-distance runner who specializes in the 3000 meter steeplechase. At the 2017 World Championships in London, Coburn won the 3000 metres steeplechase with a time of 9:02.58, breaking her own American record. This made her the first American woman to win a gold medal in the steeplechase at the World Championships.[2] Previously, she set an American record of 9:07.63 in the 3000 meter steeplechase to win a bronze medal at the 2016 Olympic Games. This also made her the first American woman to win any Olympic medal in that event.[3] Her other achievements in the event include earning a silver medal at the 2019 World Championships, reaching the 2012 Olympic final (8th), and the World Championship finals in 2011 (10th) and 2015 (5th). She also won the 2014 IAAF Continental Cup. She is a ten-time (2011, 2012, 2014-2019, 2021-2022) United States National Champion.[4]

Emma Coburn

Coburn in 2018
Personal information
Nationality	American
Born	(1990-10-19) October 19, 1990 (age 31) Boulder, Colorado, US
Home town	Crested Butte, Colorado
Height	5 ft 8 in (173 cm)
Weight	120 lb (54 kg)
Sport
Country	United States
Sport	Athletics/Track
Event(s)	Steeplechase, 3000 meters, 1500 meters
College team	Colorado Buffaloes
Club	New Balance
Coached by	Joe Bosshard
Achievements and titles
World finals	2011 Daegu 3000 m s’chase, 8th 2015 Beijing 3000 m s’chase, 5th 2017 London 3000 m s’chase,  Gold 2019 Doha 3000 m s’chase,  Silver
Olympic finals	2012 London 3000 m s’chase, 8th 2016 Rio de Janeiro 3000 m s’chase,  Bronze 2020 Tokyo 3000 m s’chase, 14th DQ
Personal best(s)	Outdoor [1] 800 m: 2:01.10 (Los Angeles 2020) 1500 m: 4:03.82 (Nashville 2020) Mile: 4:23.65 (Marion 2020) 5000 m: 15:24.76 (Austin 2021) 3000 m s’chase: 9:02.35 (Doha 2019) Indoor [1] Mile: 4:29.86 i (New York 2013) 3000 m: 8:39.11 i + (Staten Island 2021) 2-Mile: 9:15.71 i (Staten Island 2021) Road [1] Mile: 4:20.3 a (New York 2018)
Medal record Women's track and field Representing the  United States Olympic Games 2016 Rio de Janeiro 3000 m s’chase World Championships 2017 London 3000 m s’chase 2019 Doha 3000 m s’chase Representing Americas Continental Cup 2014 Marrakech 3000 m s’chase

High school career

Coburn attended Crested Butte Community School.[5][6] She finished second in the 2008 Nike Outdoor Nationals Track and Field Championships 2000 meter steeplechase in 6:42.

College career

Coburn is a three-time NCAA champion (two steeplechase titles and one indoor mile title) and six-time All-American.[7]

While attending the University of Colorado in 2010, Coburn won the Pac-12 steeplechase title as a sophomore and finished second in the NCAA championships.

In 2011, as a junior, Coburn won both the Pac-12 indoor 3000 meter title, and the Pac-12 and NCAA outdoor title in the 3000 meter steeplechase. Coburn won the 2011 USA outdoor title in the steeplechase and made the US steeple team at the World Championships in 2011, finishing 12th in the final. During her senior year in cross country, Coburn finished in 20th place over the six-kilometer distance at the NCAA national cross country championships and was Colorado's 2nd place runner, contributing to an 11th-place team finish.

In her first steeplechase of the 2012 season, Coburn became the fourth-fastest American in history and the fastest American on US soil with her time of 9:25.28.[8] The time was a 12-second PR (personal record) for Coburn, who redshirted the 2012 outdoor season at Colorado to focus on the Olympic Trials.

Coburn was named the Pac-12 Track Athlete of the Week on April 30, 2013, after recording the best 3,000 steeplechase time in the world for the season.[9]

Professional career

Coburn qualified for the 2012 U.S. Olympic team in the 3000 meter steeplechase, joined in the event by her University of Colorado teammate Shalaya Kipp.[10] At age 21, Coburn was the youngest runner on the American team at the 2012 Olympics.[10] In her Olympic heat, she placed third with a time of 9:27.51, automatically qualifying for the final.[11] She came in 9th in the final, with a time of 9:23.54 – a then personal best.[11]

In 2014, Coburn improved her 3000 m steeplechase best four times. At the Shanghai Diamond League meeting, she ran 9:19.81 before improving to 9:17.84 for third at Eugene and 9:19.72 to win her third US title in Sacramento. At the Paris Diamond League meeting, she ran a 9:14.72 for a second-place finish. This moved her to second on the US all-time list behind Jenny Simpson. At the Diamond League meet in Glasgow, Scotland, she broke Simpson's American record of 9:12.51 by running 9:11.42 and finishing second in the race to Hiwot Ayalew.

In 2015, Coburn's indoor mile ranked 28th in the world.[12] Coburn ran an Olympic qualifying time (1500m) of 4:05.1 in Eugene, Oregon, at the Prefontaine meet in May. She won the steeplechase at the 2015 USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships to qualify for the 2015 World Championships in Athletics, where she placed fifth.

In 2016, Coburn opened her outdoor season running 4:06.92 in the 1500 meters at Hoka One One Middle Distance Classic hosted at Occidental College. She set a new American record shortly thereafter at the Prefontaine Classic at Hayward Field, where she ran 9:10.76 in the 3000 meter steeplechase.[13] Coburn broke the American record for a third time, earning bronze in 9:07.63 in the 2016 Olympic steeplechase and becoming the first American woman to win an Olympic medal in the 3000 meters steeplechase. Coburn placed ninth in 4:23.8 at the 2016 Fifth Avenue Mile.[14]

On December 2, 2016, Coburn announced on her Twitter account that she was leaving Coach Mark Wetmore after "an amazing 8 years." She moved coaches to her then fiancé, now husband, Joe Bosshard.

On May 5, 2017, Coburn opened her outdoor season at the IAAF Diamond League 2017 Doha Qatar Athletic Super Grand Prix, racing the steeplechase in 9:14 to place 5th.[15] She then took gold in the 2017 World Championships on August 11 in London. This championship made her the first American woman to win a gold medal in the steeplechase at either the World Championships or the Olympics.[2] Four of the Kenyan-born women she beat in that race, including Olympic champion/world record holder Ruth Jebet had previously run faster than Coburn. Courtney Frerichs won a silver medal at the same event, thus making Coburn and Frerichs the first Americans to win the gold and silver medal in any individual World Championships or Olympics race longer than 400 meters since the 1912 Stockholm Games.[2]

In January 2018, Coburn opened her indoor season at Western State Colorado University, where she ran a then Colorado state record mile (at 7717 feet elevation) (since broken by Dani Jones on February 3, 2018, 4:36.05-mile in the University of Colorado's Indoor Practice Facility at 5430 feet elevation). Coburn followed her mile victory with a pair of 3000 meters races, first on February 3 at the Millrose Games in 8:41.16, a runner-up finish to teammate Aisha Praught-Leer who ran 8:41.10,[16] and then at the New Balance Indoor Grand Prix on February 10, 2018, at the Reggie Lewis Center where her time of 8:43.57 placed 4th.[17] Coburn finished 3rd in the 3000 meters at the 2018 USA Indoor Track and Field Championships behind winner Shelby Houlihan and runner-up Katie Mackey.

On June 30, 2019, she ran 9:04.90 to place second behind world record-holder Beatrice Chepkoech in the star-studded Diamond League steeple at the Prefontaine Classic held in Stanford, California.[18] On July 28, Coburn ran 9:25.63 at the 2019 USA Track & Field Outdoor Championships. Since she was the defending World Champion from 2017, she already was an automatic qualifier for the 2019 World Championships. Second was U.S. record-holder Courtney Frerichs, who ran 9:26.61, and also qualified to run in Doha, Qatar in September.[19]

In June, 2021 Coburn qualified for her third Olympic Games by finishing first in the 3000m steeplechase at the American trials in Eugene, OR with a time of 9:09:41.[20] She placed 14th at the competition's finals on August 4, 2021, having tripped over a barrier, but was disqualified for touching the track's delimiting railing when she fell.[21] Congratulating fellow American silver medalist Courtney Frerichs, she posted "Hugs in victory and defeat. Always appreciate this friendship and the constant effort required to be excellent together," while also having expressed her frustration at her own performance: "My Tokyo Olympic race was a total failure. I was terrible. Disappointed to not be my best and represent my country and team well. Thank you for all the kind words of support."[21]

Competition record

Year	Competition	Venue	Position	Event	Notes
Representing the  United States
2011	World Championships	Daegu, South Korea	8th	3000 m steeplechase	9:51.40
2012	Olympic Games	London, United Kingdom	8th	3000 m steeplechase	9:23.54
2015	World Championships	Beijing, China	5th	3000 m steeplechase	9:21.78
2016	Olympic Games	Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	3rd	3000 m steeplechase	9:07.63
2017	World Championships	London, United Kingdom	1st	3000 m steeplechase	9:02.58 CR
2019	World Championships	Doha, Qatar	2nd	3000 m steeplechase	9:02.35 PR
2021	Olympic Games	Tokyo, Japan	14th DQ	3000 m steeplechase	9:41.50
2022	World Championships	Eugene, United States	8th	3000 m steeplechase	9:16.49

USA National Championships

Year	Competition	Venue	Position	Event	Notes
2011	USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships	Eugene, Oregon	1st	3000 m steeplechase	9:44.11[22]
2012	US Olympic Trials	Eugene, Oregon	1st	3000 m steeplechase	9:32.78[23]
2014	USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships	Sacramento, California	1st	3000 m steeplechase	9:19.72[24]
2015	USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships	Eugene, Oregon	1st	3000 m steeplechase	9:15.59[25]
2016	US Olympic Trials	Eugene, Oregon	1st	3000 m steeplechase	9:17.48[26]
2017	USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships	Sacramento, California	1st	3000 m steeplechase	9:20.28[27]
2018	USA Indoor Track and Field Championships	Albuquerque, New Mexico	3rd	3000 m	9:01.85[28]
2018	USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships	Des Moines, Iowa	1st	3000 m steeplechase	9:17.70[29]
2019	USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships	Des Moines, Iowa	1st	3000 m steeplechase	9:25.63[30]
2021	US Olympic Trials	Eugene, Oregon	1st	3000 m steeplechase	9:09.41[31]
2022	USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships	Eugene, Oregon	1st	3000 m steeplechase	9:10.63

Personal bests

All sourced from worldathletics.org unless otherwise noted.[32] As of July 24, 2022.

Surface	Event	Time	Date	Location
Outdoor track	800m	2:01.10	August 22, 2020	Los Angeles, CA
	1500 m	4:03.82	August 15, 2020	Memphis, Tennessee
	Mile	4:31.08	September 5, 2018	Bay Shore, New York
	3000 m	8:48.60	August 20, 2017	Birmingham
	5000 m	15:24.76	February 27, 2021	Austin, TX
	2000 m steeplechase	6:44.42	June 19, 2008	Greensboro, North Carolina
	3000 m steeplechase	9:02.35	September 30, 2019	Doha, Qatar
Indoor track	1000 m	2:52.43	February 27, 2009	College Station, TX
	1500 m	4:12.31	February 16, 2013	New York, New York
	Mile	4:29.86	February 16, 2013	New York, New York
	2000 m	5:41.11	February 7, 2015	Boston, Massachusetts
	3000 m	8:39.19	February 13, 2021	New York, New York
	2 Miles	9:15.71	February 13, 2021	New York, New York
Road	Mile	4:20.3	September 9, 2018	New York, New York

Season bests

All sourced from worldathletics.org unless otherwise noted.[32]

Surface	Event	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022
Outdoor track	800m	—	—	—	2:01.10	—	—
	1500 m	4:11.89	—	4:04.40	4:03.82	4:04.28	4:04.44
	Mile	—	4:31.08	—	4:32.72	—	—
	3000 m	8:48.60	—	—	—	—	—
	5000 m	—	—	—	—	15:24.76	—
	3000 m s'chase	9:02.58	9:05.06	9:02.35	—	9:08.22	9:10.63
Indoor track	1500 m	—	—	4:14.39	—	—	—
	Mile	—	—	4:32.68	—	—	—
	3000 m	—	8:41.16	8:52.27	8:56.60	8:39.19	—
	2 Miles	—	—	—	9:32.81	9:15.71	—

— No competition record

Personal life

In September 2017, Coburn organized the Crested Butte, Colorado, Elk 5 km race as a charity fundraiser for the Crested Butte Cancer Support Community. In October 2017, she married Joe Bosshard.[33]

References

External links

• Emma Coburn at World Athletics
• Emma Coburn at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)
• Emma Coburn at legacy.USATF.org
• Emma Coburn at All-Athletics Archived June 29, 2017, at the Wayback Machine
• Emma Coburn at TeamUSA.org
• Emma Coburn at the International Olympic Committee
• Emma Coburn at Olympics.com

На других языках

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[de] Emma Coburn

Emma Coburn (* 19. Oktober 1990 in Boulder, Colorado) ist eine US-amerikanische Leichtathletin, die sich auf den Hindernislauf spezialisiert hat.

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- [en] Emma Coburn

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[fr] Emma Coburn

Emma Coburn (née le 19 octobre 1990 à Boulder) est une athlète américaine, spécialiste du steeple, championne du monde en 2017 à Londres.

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[it] Emma Coburn

Emma Jane Coburn (Boulder, 19 ottobre 1990) è una siepista statunitense, campionessa mondiale a Londra 2017.

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[ru] Коберн, Эмма

Эмма Коберн (англ. Emma Coburn, род. 19 октября 1990 года в Боулдере, Колорадо, США) — американская легкоатлетка, специализируется в беге на 3000 метров с препятствиями[1][2]. Бронзовый призёр летних Олимпийских игр 2016 года[3], чемпионка мира 2017 года[4].

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