Galen Rupp
Galen Rupp 
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| birthday | 8th May 1986 (age 34) | |||||||||
| place of birth | United States | |||||||||
| size | 180 cm | |||||||||
| Weight | 61 kg | |||||||||
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| discipline | Marathon run | |||||||||
| Best performance | 59:47 min (half marathon) 2:06:07 h (marathon) |
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| society | Nike Oregon Project | |||||||||
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Galen Rupp (born May 8, 1986 in Portland ) is an American long-distance runner and silver medalist at the 2012 Olympic Games .
Athletic career
Galen Rupp first attended the private Central Catholic High School in Portland and then from 2005 to 2009 the University of Oregon in Eugene . During this time, under his coach Alberto Salazar, he developed into one of the country's outstanding young talents. On various long distances on the track and in cross-country running, he collected numerous titles and records in competitions of the National Collegiate Athletic Association .
Internationally, he made an appearance especially in the 10,000 meter run . At the 2007 World Championships in Osaka , he finished eleventh over this distance. A year later, he was thirteenth at the Beijing Olympics . At the 2009 World Championships in Berlin , he reached eighth place. In the same year he became the US champion in the 10,000-meter run.
At the World Indoor Championships in Doha in 2010 , he finished fifth in the 3000 meter run with a personal best of 7: 42.40 minutes.
He also presented during the IAAF Diamond League belonging Memorial Van Damme -Meeting in Brussels on 17 September 2011, a new American record in the 10,000-meter race with 26: 48.00 min and is thus the fastest non-African runner in the 10,000 meters and the second (after Chris Solinsky , 26: 59.60 min, 2010), which undercut the 27-minute limit. On May 31, 2014, at the Prefontaine Classic in Eugene, he improved his own record again to 26: 44.36 min, which is the fifteenth fastest time ever run over this distance.
At the 2012 Olympic Games in London, he won the silver medal over 10,000 meters behind his training colleague Mo Farah .
On February 13, 2016, Rupp won his marathon debut at the US Trials in Los Angeles in 2:11:13 h and thus secured his starting place for the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro .
There he won the bronze medal in 2:10:05 h behind Eliud Kipchoge from Kenya and Feyisa Lilesa from Ethiopia. Rupp also competed in the 10,000 meter race in Rio de Janeiro and finished fifth there.
On October 8, 2017, he won the Chicago Marathon in a new personal best of 2:09:20 hours.
In spring 2018, the now 31-year-old was very strong. On March 11th, Rupp won the Roma-Ostia half marathon in a time of 59:47 minutes. During this time, he missed Ryan Hall's 2007 US record by just four seconds.
Rupp was preparing for the Boston Marathon that spring . However, the marathon took place at temperatures around freezing point and in rainy weather, so that Rupp, like most of the other favorites, had to give up the race. He started the Prague Marathon a few weeks later . In this race, Rupp was able to break away from his last African pursuer after 38 km and won the marathon in a time of 2:06:07 hours.
On February 29, 2020, he triumphed in the US Olympic Trials 2020 marathon in Atlanta with 2:09:20 hours.
Galen Rupp is 1.80 m tall and has a competition weight of 61 kg.
Top performances
- 1500 m : 3: 34.15 min, September 5, 2014, Brussels
- 1 mile : 3: 52.11 min, July 27, 2013, London
- 3000 m: 7: 43.24 min, August 13, 2010, London
- Hall: 7: 30.16 min, February 21, 2013, Stockholm
- 5000 m : 12: 58.90 min, June 2, 2012, Eugene
- 10,000 m : 26: 44.36 min, May 31, 2014, Eugene
- Half marathon : 59:47 h, March 11, 2018, Ostia
- Marathon : 2:06:07 h, May 6, 2018, Prague
Web links
- Galen Rupp in the database of World Athletics (English)
- Galen Rupp in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
- Athlete portrait by Galen Rupp on the USATF website
Individual evidence
- ↑ Chicago Marathon 2017 - Tirunesh Dibaba and Galen Rupp win the Chicago Marathon . In: RUNNER'S WORLD . ( runnersworld.de [accessed October 10, 2017]).
- ↑ Prague Marathon 2018 - Galen Rupp wins in Prague instead of Boston . In: RUNNER'S WORLD . ( runnersworld.de [accessed on August 10, 2018]).
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| SURNAME | Rupp, Galen |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American long distance runner |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 8, 1986 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Portland , Oregon |