1. Craig Engels was born on May 1,1994 and is an American middle-distance runner.
24 Facts About Craig Engels
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Craig Engels competed for the United States at the 2013 Pan American Junior Athletics Championships, where he won the men's 1500 meters.
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Craig Engels finished 4th in the 800m final and 5th in the 1500m final, missing out on the Olympics in both events.
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Craig Engels first attended North Carolina State with an athletic scholarship.
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Just four months after this, during winter break, Craig Engels decided to terminate his enrollment at NC State.
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Craig Engels considered stopping competitive running altogether, but was urged by his high school coach, Chris Catton, not to quit.
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Craig Engels set a new personal best of 4:01.19 at the Husky Classic for 12th place.
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Craig Engels ran the 1600m leg of the Rebel's SEC championship Distance Medley Relay while finishing runner-up in the mile event at the SEC Championships in 4:03.76.
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Craig Engels made his 1500m Rebel debut at the Virginia Challenge, breaking the school record with a time of 3:40.28.
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Craig Engels raced to a personal-best 800m time of 1:46.13 at the LSU Invitational, which left him ranked No 2 all time in school history.
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Craig Engels finished 10th at the SEC Championships in the 5000m in a Personal-best time of 14:20.27 which was followed up with a third-place finish in the 1500m with a time of 3:45.37.
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Craig Engels finished seventh in the 800m at the SEC Championships with a time of 1:49.86, earning All-SEC First Team honors.
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Craig Engels ran the 800m leg of the SEC Champion DMR team that won the third-straight DMR crown for Ole Miss at the SEC Championships.
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Craig Engels then ran the 800m leg for the Ole Miss DMR team that placed third at the 2016 NCAA Indoor Track and Field Championships, earning First Team All-America honors.
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Craig Engels began the 2016 outdoor season strongly, finished first overall in the 800m at the Texas Invitational with a time of 1:47.17 and a second-place finish in the 800m at the Payton Jordan Invitational with a time of 1:47.06.
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Craig Engels then set a school record with a second-place finish in the 1500m at the Florida Relays with a time of 3:38.82, which was the third fastest time in the NCAA in 2016.
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In July 2017, Craig Engels joined the Nike Oregon Project to be coached by Pete Julian and left Oxford, Mississippi for Portland, Oregon.
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Craig Engels planned to be coached by Pete Julian, instead of Alberto Salazar, the latter whom Craig Engels had inadvertently introduced himself to at the 2013 USATF Outdoor Championships.
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At the USATF Indoor Championships, Craig Engels finished third behind Ben Blankenship and Paul Chelimo, the former not having run the qualifying time for the IAAF Indoor Championships.
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On July 28,2019 Craig Engels won the 1500m final at the 2019 USATF Outdoor Championships.
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Craig Engels ran a 3:44.93, beating out 2016 Olympic gold medalist Matthew Centrowitz by 0.04 seconds in a tactical race which displayed the advantage of commanding the race from the front in lane 1.
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On September 6,2019 Craig Engels finished 5th in the 1500 at the Diamond League final in Brussels, Belgium running a PR of 3:34.04.
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Craig Engels finished 10th in the IAAF World Championships 1500 final in Doha, Qatar on October 6,2019.
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Craig Engels faded out of medal contention in the last 600 meters but still ran 3:34.24, just.