Kenneth Clark Moore was an American Olympic road running athlete and journalist.
22 Facts About Kenny Moore
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Kenny Moore ran the marathon at the 1968 and 1972 Summer Olympics, finishing fourth at the latter.
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Kenny Moore was born in Portland, Oregon, on December 1,1943.
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Kenny Moore attended North Eugene High School in Eugene, Oregon.
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Kenny Moore went on to study at the University of Oregon, where he raced for the Oregon Ducks under coach Bill Bowerman.
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Kenny Moore received All-American honors on three occasions and was pivotal to the Ducks winning the team national championship at the 1964 and 1965 NCAA University Division Outdoor Track and Field Championships.
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Kenny Moore first ran the Olympic marathon at the 1968 Summer Games.
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Kenny Moore led early in the final, but finished fourteenth after suffering from severe blisters.
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Kenny Moore joined the US Army later that year, but was permitted to continue racing.
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Kenny Moore set the record for best time among American runners at the Fukuoka Marathon in 1969 and 1970, finishing runner-up in the latter race.
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Kenny Moore again participated in the marathon at the Summer Olympics that year.
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Kenny Moore had a 25-year career covering athletics for Sports Illustrated.
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Kenny Moore was one of the athletes who pushed for the Amateur Sports Act of 1978.
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Kenny Moore helped to write the screenplay for the 1998 biopic Without Limits, a film about former Oregon Ducks standout Steve Prefontaine.
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Kenny Moore had an acting role in the 1982 Robert Towne film Personal Best, starring Mariel Hemingway, Scott Glenn, and Patrice Donnelly.
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Kenny Moore published a book in 2007 about his former coach titled Bowerman and the Men of Oregon.
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Kenny Moore was the author of Best Efforts: World Class Runners and Races.
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Kenny Moore was inducted into the University of Oregon Athletic Hall of Fame in 1997.
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Kenny Moore was later honored in the Oregon Sports Hall of Fame in 2019.
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Kenny Moore married his first wife, Roberta Conlan, in 1968.
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Kenny Moore was photographed embracing him at the finish line of the Olympic marathon that same year.
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Kenny Moore subsequently married Connie Johnston Moore, and remained married to her until his death.