Alberto Salazar

Alberto Salazar is an American former track coach and long-distance runner. Born in Cuba, Salazar immigrated to the United States as a child with his family, living in Connecticut and then in Wayland, Massachusetts, where Salazar competed in track and field in high school. Salazar won the New York City Marathon three times in the early 1980s, and won the 1982 Boston Marathon in a race known as the "Duel in the Sun". He set American track records for 5,000 m and 10,000 m in 1982. Salazar was later the head coach of the Nike Oregon Project. He won the IAAF Coaching Achievement Award in 2013.

7 August 1958

Born on the same birth date (7 August 1958): Bruce Dickinson • Russell Baze

Born on the same birth day (7 August): Alain Corneau • Alonso de Ercilla • Caroline Aaron • David Testo • Elizabeth Manley • Josh Franceschi • Juan Martín Hernández • Miguel Llera • Seiichiro Maki • Vladimir Sorokin • William Frederick, Prince of Nassau-Dietz • Wout Weghorst

Born in the same month (August 1958): Fred Goodwin • Jah Wobble • John Stehr • Jürgen Dehmel • Lenny Henry • Lindsey Hilsum • Martin Jackson • Michael Jackson • Muriel Gray • Silvan Shalom • Simon Baron-Cohen • Simple Kapadia