Alistair Cragg: 'I'm not complete with my own career but I am complete, it's done'

It's 10 years to the day since Alistair Cragg walked off the track with more than four laps still to run in the final of the 5,000m at the European Championships

Sat, 01 Aug, 2020 - 07:00

Brendan O'Brien

It's 10 years to the day since Alistair Cragg walked off the track with more than four laps still to run in the final of the 5,000m at the European Championships in Barcelona. It made for a convenient hook when planning an article though hardly the most attractive of pitches when contacting him out of the blue in Portland, Oregon.

Now 40 and long retired, Cragg is still heavily involved in athletics as an agent, manager, coach and via his wife Amy who was bronze medallist in the marathon at the 2017 Worlds in London.