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Percy Cerutty
1895Jan, 10

Percy Cerutty

Percy Cerutty, Australian athletics coach (d. 1975)
Percy Wells Cerutty (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.

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