Galen Rupp was born on May 8,1986 and is an American long-distance runner.
37 Facts About Galen Rupp
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Galen Rupp competed in the Summer Olympics in 2008 in Beijing, 2012 in London, 2016 in Rio de Janeiro and 2021 in Tokyo.
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Galen Rupp won the silver medal in the men's 10,000 meters in London and the bronze medal in the men's marathon in Rio de Janeiro.
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Galen Rupp won the 2017 Chicago Marathon, becoming the first American to do so since Khalid Khannouchi in 2002.
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Galen Rupp won the marathon at the 2020 US Olympic Trials in Atlanta with a time of 2:09:20, and qualified for the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games, where he finished eighth.
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Galen Rupp holds or held multiple US records at the high school, collegiate and senior levels.
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Galen Rupp holds North American indoor best for the two miles with a time of 8:07.41.
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Galen Rupp is considered to be one of the greatest American distance runners of all time.
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Galen Rupp finished his high school career with a 10,000-meter race in 29:09.56 in Brasschaat, Belgium, which was the fourth-fastest ever for an American high schooler.
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Galen Rupp was the Track and Field News "High School Athlete of the Year" in 2004.
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Galen Rupp delayed entering college, instead continuing to train and compete while coached by Salazar.
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Galen Rupp won the USA Junior Cross Country title in mid-February 2005 then placed 20th at the 2005 World Junior Cross Country Championships in France in mid-March.
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Galen Rupp then enrolled at the University of Oregon in time for the outdoor track season.
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Galen Rupp returned to cross country in 2006 to defeat two-time Pac-10 champion Robert Cheseret, Bernard Lagat's brother, of the University of Arizona to become Oregon's 10th male runner to win a Pac-10 Conference cross country title.
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Galen Rupp led a young Oregon team to victory over the Stanford Cardinal, who had won the previous six Pac-10 titles.
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Galen Rupp went on to finish sixth in the 2006 NCAA Men's Cross Country Championship.
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Galen Rupp's time of 27:33.48 set an American-born NCAA Collegiate Record for the event and gave him the seventh-fastest time in US history.
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Galen Rupp ran a time of 3:58.93 as the anchor the relay, which included his Oregon teammates Matthew Centrowitz Jr.
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In 2009, Galen Rupp won the inaugural Bowerman Award, which is given to college track's Athlete of the Year.
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Galen Rupp took part in the Great Edinburgh Cross Country in 2011 and finished second behind Mo Farah, helping the US team to second place.
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Galen Rupp then took part in the New York City Half Marathon, his debut at that distance and finished third in a time of 1:00:30, at the time making him the third-fastest American at the distance.
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Two days later, in the 5000-meter Olympic final, Galen Rupp placed seventh in 13:45.04.
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However, Galen Rupp came out on top because Lagat did not finish, and no US record was broken that day.
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On January 25, Galen Rupp set the US record for the indoor two miles with a time of 8:07.41, breaking the previous record of 8:09.49 by Bernard Lagat on February 16,2013.
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Farah started a long kick, resulting in a 54.15 last lap for the victory; Galen Rupp placed fifth with a time of 27:08.91.
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Galen Rupp beat second-place finisher, Meb Keflezighi, by over a minute, recording the winning time of 2:11:13 on a warm day in Los Angeles.
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On October 8, Galen Rupp won the Bank of America Chicago Marathon with a time of 2:09:20, becoming the first American male to win the race since Khalid Khannouchi in 2002 and the first American-born runner to win since Greg Meyer in 1982.
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On March 11,2018, Galen Rupp won the Roma-Ostia Half Marathon with a time of 59:47, becoming the second American to run a half marathon in under 60 minutes.
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Galen Rupp fell short of Ryan Hall's US record by four seconds.
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At the 2018 Boston Marathon, Galen Rupp dropped out of the race near the 20-mile mark, just before Heartbreak Hill.
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Galen Rupp has the bumps on both heels, though to date only the left one has been problematic.
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On February 29,2020, Galen Rupp won the 2020 United States Olympic Marathon Trials in Atlanta with a time of 2:09:20.
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Galen Rupp finished eighth in the Olympic Marathon, which was held in Sapporo, Japan, on August 8,2021.
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Galen Rupp ran with the leaders through the first 30 kilometers but could not match the move made by eventual winner, Eliud Kipchoge, finishing three minutes and three seconds behind him with a time of 2:11:41.
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Weeks later, Galen Rupp placed second in the Chicago Marathon in warm and windy conditions with a time of 2:06:35.
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Three months later and twenty days later, Galen Rupp made his debut in the New York City Marathon.
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In January 2020, Galen Rupp announced his new coach would be Mike Smith, who is the head coach at Northern Arizona University.