SUPER COACH
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BILL BEGG
Bill Begg is a world renowned super coach. We are pleased to be able to bring you a series of Bill's articles at bont.com. Bill's articles are specifically written for speed skating and I think you will find them a wealth of information. I almost had to pay to increase the size of the hard drive on this server just to fit in Bill's Resume. It really is stunning as you can see below: Highlights Bill Begg Coaching Career 2001Coach N.Z. Team Oceania champs Cairns, Senior men relay from club won N.Z. men's bank track title & took 5 sec off N.Z. record & also won Oceania senior men's title, Daughter Nicole 13 wins 7 of the 20 N.Z. medals, competing in the under 17 junior girls. Coach NZ world team France, 1 gold 2 silver & 2 bronze, Scott Arlidge 6th 500 road, 1st year senior, Nicole Begg 13th, 1st junior worlds. Wayne Begg 1st N.Z. senior Marathon, Nicole Begg 2nd senior ladies. 2000 Personal coach of New Zealand's first world speed Roller champion since 1980, world team coach Colombia 2 gold & 1 Silver Medals. Coach Oceania Team, Senior men's & Junior men's defeated Australia. Nicole at 12 youngest competitor won Oceania Junior 21km half marathon & Wayne 2nd Junior boys Mt. Wellington club No 1 N.Z. speed club N.Z. champs. 1999 Did not attend world or Oceania championships due to Financial reasons, Pupil won Oceania & World Junior bronze medals, a number of skaters Won New Zealand titles. 1998 Coach N.Z. Junior Oceania team Brisbane, World champs Spain, men Just miss medals, N.Z. senior lady 8th 1,500, 1st time N.Z. senior lady in World top 10 since 1980. 1997Coach N.Z. Team Senior & Junior world champs Argentina, Juniors 1 silver & 2 Bronze medals, Coach N.Z. Oceania champs Brisbane. Coach Junior Oceania champs Wanganui, N.Z. Boys No 1 team. 1996Coach Australia Oceania champs Hastings & Napier, Fill in coach for some skaters from Australia during the Worlds Italy, when things were going bad for Australia, cured Psychological problem with Brayden Jones, who went on to win the 5,000 meters & break the world record. 1995 Coach & selector for Colombian team Pan American Games Argentina Skaters won 3 of the 5 total golds won by Colombia, spent 4 months living in Colombia. Jan – April. Coached Colombia for Pacific Rim Championships Cali I month June Coached Indonesian Coaches & National teams to prepare for Asian Champs, spent time in Jakarta, son Wayne helped teach Hedrick style Skating technique. Coach Australia Junior Oceania Champs Perth November, Australia Dominated the events. Perth World champs Pupils won 15 medals overall 20% of all world medals. Tony Muse winner of more world titles than any other skater, tells the Australian press, Bill Begg is the number one world skating coach, and If I had been his coach, he would have been awesome & won more. 1994Pupil Desly Hill wins Gold Medal at French world champs. COACH CYCLIST ROD EVANS Breaks 5 endurance world records Track cycling, 100 mile, 200 mile, 12 hour 24 hour & 1,000 Km. Claiming I am the best coach in all Australia, in any sport. The secret being the belief that I trained hard but, but made them rest hard also. Team Manager Australian Roller Hockey world champs Chile, called in to provide some motivation & inspiration, to our poorly performed branch of our sport. 1993U.S.A. Quiet year pupils 1 silver & 1 Bronze world champs. Coach manager Australia World Games Holland Italian Federation official makes approach, re coaching Italy. Coach Manager world games Holland, pupil Desly wins Gold. 1992Coach of Australia world champs Rome, girls I personally coach win the only Australian medals, 2 gold, 2 silver & 2 Bronze, to top the ladies medal tally, My wife Cheryl Becomes the first Australian to defend a world title when she retained the 1,500 road title, also won the overall world number 1 title, Desly Hill wins the 300 meters the 1st ever world title on Inline skates, & is 3rd overall. At these championships I am elected for a 4 year term to the C.I.C.5 person World speed body, who run the sport, the 1st ever appointed Person from Asia or Oceania, it is rumored that a big country sees this as the best way is to get me off the coaching scene, this cost my pupils many world golds over the next four years, as during the world champs I could not coach & had to be organizing & running the world champs & presenting the medals. But I got the sport straightened out & better competition resulted. 1991Coach Colombia world champs worlds in Belgium, my 2 current world Champions have both retired after winning in 1990, Colombia wins a silver medal & my wife Cheryl skating for Australia, but living in Colombia wins Australia’s only medals 3 silvers, while the other Australians averaged 27th. Dispute after a race, sees me victimized & in a Belgium jail for 4 to 5 hours, where corrupt police Blackmail me & steal my money. Coach of Colombia PAN AMERICAN GAMES HAVANA CUBA, skaters win two of Colombia’s 5 medals. Coach Colombia, Mexico, Mexico Olympic committee competition. 1990 Coach of Colombia, In 23 previous years, Colombia only had 4 placings at the previous world championships & no gold medals at world championships In Meddellin Colombia win 3 gold 3 silver & 2 Bronze medals & finish number one World Nation, my wife coached by me, living in Colombia but skating for Australia wins the 1,500 world Title & second in the 10,000. 3 girls I personally coached all year, each one a gold & a silver plus 2 of them a bronze also, so in the 6 ladies world titles, they placed in all events, Two particular events, I had a major influence in all 3 medals, Mens 20,000, Botero from Colombia won, 2nd & 3rd were 2 Australians Keefe & Darnell who I had Coached for many years previously in Australia. In ladies 1,500 My wife Cheryl won, with Colombian Girl Claudia Ruiz who I coached 2nd & Ann Woods from Australia 3rd, Woods was coached by her husband Ron, who had lived in our home when he went to the world champs, in 1982 1989 Coach of Australia World Championships Hastings, Australia Finish number ONE WORLD NATION, we win 2 gold, 5 silver & 4 Bronze, Stephen Whyte who lived with us, wins 2 world titles, & is the best Male skater, dominating the powerful U.S.A. & Italian teams, in two events I have 2 of the medallists. In 11 of the 12 world titles, the people I personally coached finish 4th or higher. My wife Cheryl at 30 makes a comeback at world level after a 3 year break from world championships, ends up 2nd in 5,000 pts & 4th in 3,000 & 1,500 & 2nd overall.. 1988World champs Italy, skaters I coach win Gold, 2 silver & 2 bronze medals. Not official coach at worlds, Delegate for International meeting. Complete Level 3 Coaching Course in Australia, 1st in Australia for Roller sports, 10 years later still only level 3 fully accredited for our sport 1987World champs France, 2 men Keefe & Whyte who live with me are beaten in a photo finish in the 20,000, finishing 2nd & 3rd. a number of Australia’s top skaters retire after 1986 Australian worlds, 14 year old Desly Hill makes her first senior worlds appearance, going on to win 4 gold & 14 placings at worlds in her career. Complete Associate Diploma Applied Science Sports, Edith Cowan Perth. 1986World champs Australia, Coach Australia win 7 world medals, Joe Askew wins 300 time trial, first time since inception of worlds since 1936, that Italian skater did not win men's road time trial, reigning world champion & world record holder Italian skaters, DePersio & Galliazo are second & third. Manager Australia world world roller Hockey championships Mexico City , Altitude Factor. 1985U.S.A. Colorado Springs Altitude, Only 1 bronze medal, Coach Australia. 1984World champs Bogota extreme Altitude, Kevin Webb wins bronze in 1,500 Men's relay team lose to France by 5 meters, but defeat the U.S.A. by 18 sec & the Italians by 19 sec, in an event where with 3 competitors on a 400 meter track , recovery was a big problem, our superior fitness paid dividends. Coach Australia. 1983Argentina, Coach Australia , Lee Hollis at 16 gains bronze medal, retires after 2 years earlier being the youngest ever world champion, content to have won a full set of world medals, & being the youngest ever world senior champion. 1982The medaless year, after defeating the Italians in Belgium, the Italians play Dirty, they manufacture wheels to suit the road & track courses, that are not available to anyone else, they win 18 0f the 20 world titles, being 1,2,3 in 11 of the 20 events, this is the situation we have faced in our sport, in past years & also many future years, with Italians & Americans, the equipment won the event, not the athlete. Defending world champions Cheryl Begg & Lee Hollis get 4th placings. Coach of Australian team, champs held in Italy. 1981Coach Australia , world championships Belgium, Australia wins first ever medals 2 gold & 1 silver, Lee Hollis at 14 years 10 months, youngest ever World senior champion, winning the 2 person elimination sprint, defeating 3 current Italian world champions in the quarter final, semi final & Final, Cheryl Begg nee Millar, wins her first of 3 world titles. This is only Australia’s 4rd ever appearance at world championships. 1980Manager Australia world champs New Zealand, some great thinking administrators come up with the idea that if you have a relative in the team you can’t be the coach. THIS IS ONE OF SPORTS BIGGEST PROBLEMS, THOSE WHO DO NOT UNDERSTAND WHAT ITS ALL ABOUT MAKING DECISIONS. Fortunately a new national coaching director, from an outside sport, told them To wake up to themselves, you need your best coaches on the job, the Australian future record at world champs could well have been less. 1979Coach / Competitor Australia world champs Italy, 3 competitors manage a top 10 placing. Unfortunately I strain my groin in the road relay. 1978 1978 Immigrated to Australia, win Senior mens 5,000 & 10,000 Australian road titles 1976 & 1977 Placed in 16 out of 18 Senior N.Z. banked track & road titles, 4 gold, 8 silver & 4 bronze. To bring N.Z senior. medal tally to 46 In 1976, held N.Z. records for road 1,000, 1,500 & 20,000, plus endurance times, 25 miles, 50 miles & 50km banked track, also 24 hour record on 100meter outdoor concrete track, wearing Hudora Artistic skates & brown nevlon wheels, 246 1/2 miles, around 400km. 1975 At 28 I represented N.Z. at world champs, Mar Del Plata Argentina Banked track May & September 1975 road, Sesto San Giovani Italy, there was no worlds from 1969 - 1975. 1970 Won 1st individual N.Z. mens Title, the 1,000 meter road sprint at Napier, dual world champion Dean Hayes is second. 1965 Competed in N.Z. indoor champs Rotorua. 1963 Skate for the first time in my life,
at 17 years old, public session at Timaru rink, on strap on Hamaco
skates with laminated wheels. Coached 2 nations to be number one world nations, Colombia & Australia. Coached world champions in 3 countries, Australia, N.Z. & Colombia. Personal Coach 16 world titles & over 80 medals. Coached National teams of 4 countries, Indonesia, Australia, Colombia & N.Z. Coached world record holders in Cycling & Skating. Coached personally 15 world senior titles & around 70 world medals, in same time That N.Z. won 1 bronze medal. Coached personally over a 3 year period at world ladies champs, 1990, 1991 & 1992 25% of all Gold, 40% of all silver & 18% of Bronze in Individual events. Coached 3 times, The world overall number one competitor & 4 times the number two overall skater at worlds. Coached Colombia Pan American games 1991 Havana & 1995 Argentina, coached 5 of Colombia's 10 gold for all sports. Coached Youngest ever world senior champion, & 1st ever world inline champion. Coached 1st Australian to win 2 world titles at same champs, & 1st Australian to defend & retain a world title. Coached Stephen Whyte to win two world titles in 1989, give away 2 others by trying to let teammates win, & blatantly robbed of another by bad officiating, was good enough & could have won 5 gold medals. Coached First N.Z. world gold medal for 20 years 2,000 worlds. Bill Begg A.D.A.S. (sport)
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