Galen Rupp

Galen Rupp is an American long-distance runner. He competed in the Summer Olympics in 2008 in Beijing, 2012 in London, 2016 in Rio de Janeiro and 2021 in Tokyo. He 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. Rupp competed for the University of Oregon and trained under Alberto Salazar as a member of the Nike Oregon Project. He won the 2017 Chicago Marathon, becoming the first American to do so since Khalid Khannouchi in 2002. Rupp won the marathon at the 2020 U.S. Olympic Trials in Atlanta with a time of 2:09:20, and qualified for the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games, where he finished eighth.

8 May 1986

Born on the same birth day (8 May): Adolphe-Basile Routhier • Aloysius Stepinac • Dave Rowntree • Felix Jones • Franco Baresi • Frederick I, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach • Gordon McClymont • Harry S. Truman • John C. Bogle • Niels Juel • Peter Benchley • Ronnie Lott • Saul Bass • William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire • William Henry Vanderbilt

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