Michael Barbella, Managing Editor06.13.19
Chris Troyanos knows his place among marathoners.
For more than four decades, he’s walked the delicate line between love and hate, acting as the yin to runners’ yang, the moon to their sun. He’s friend and foe wrapped in one—a prize to some, a persona non grata to others.
Troyanos, 62, owns Sports Medicine Consultants Inc., a 23-year-old Plymouth, Mass.-based firm that provides medical management, onsite medical care, and volunteer recruitment services for large-scale athletic events. A certified athletic trainer, Troyanos has coordinated and supervised medical coverage for dozens of sizable races throughout the United States and Canada, including the grueling 26.2-mile Boston Marathon.
Coordinating medical coverage for New England’s most widely viewed sporting event is quite the undertaking: Besides preparing for almost any running-related injury (shattered femurs, included) Troyanos also supervises 1,700 volunteer clinicians and the 28 medical tents along the eight-town route. The job requires some mastery of psychology as well, since no sprinter really wants to see Troyanos on race da
For more than four decades, he’s walked the delicate line between love and hate, acting as the yin to runners’ yang, the moon to their sun. He’s friend and foe wrapped in one—a prize to some, a persona non grata to others.
Troyanos, 62, owns Sports Medicine Consultants Inc., a 23-year-old Plymouth, Mass.-based firm that provides medical management, onsite medical care, and volunteer recruitment services for large-scale athletic events. A certified athletic trainer, Troyanos has coordinated and supervised medical coverage for dozens of sizable races throughout the United States and Canada, including the grueling 26.2-mile Boston Marathon.
Coordinating medical coverage for New England’s most widely viewed sporting event is quite the undertaking: Besides preparing for almost any running-related injury (shattered femurs, included) Troyanos also supervises 1,700 volunteer clinicians and the 28 medical tents along the eight-town route. The job requires some mastery of psychology as well, since no sprinter really wants to see Troyanos on race da
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