14 Facts About Pat Porter

Patrick Ralph Porter was an American distance runner.

Pat Porter won the silver medal at the 1985 IAAF World Cup in Canberra, Australia, getting nipped at the tape by Ethiopia's Wodajo Bulti by six hundredths of a second.

Pat Porter had a personal record of 4:29 in the mile while running for Evergreen High School in Evergreen, Colorado.

Pat Porter was not heavily recruited to run in college.

Pat Porter is a 1982 alumnus Adams State College in Alamosa, Colorado, and flourished under the training of coach Joe Vigil.

At Adams State, Pat Porter won 6 RMAC championships, and 3 national NAIA championships.

Pat Porter was best known for his cross country running accomplishments.

Pat Porter won a record eight consecutive USA Cross Country Championships from 1982 to 1989.

Pat Porter represented the United States at the World Cross Country Championships each of these years.

In 1998 Pat Porter played Finnish distance runner Lasse Viren in Without Limits, a biographical film about American distance legend Steve Prefontaine.

Pat Porter was married to fellow US 1988 Olympic Team member high jumper Trish King.

Pat Porter was inducted in the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics Hall of Fame in 1987.

Pat Porter was inducted in the RMAC Hall of Fame in July 2012.

Only days before his death, on July 20, Pat Porter had been inducted into the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference Hall of Fame in Colorado Springs and was inducted into the Adams State Athletics Hall of Fame in 2000 in Alamosa, Colorado.