[Audio] Galen Rupp Interviewed at the New Balance Indoor Grand Prix (from RBR Archives, February 2014)

This is from the RBR Archives 2014. We were thinking about Galen Rupp, a two-time Olympic medalist, silver for 10,000m in London 2012 and bronze for the marathon in Rio 2016. In Tokyo 2021, Galen took 8th in the marathon.

In the World Championships 2022 in Eugene, Galen Rupp finished 19th in the World Champs Marathon. He dropped out of the Chicago Marathon in October 2022, around 30k.

In October 2023, Galen Rupp finished 8th in 2:08.48 in the Bank of America Chicago Marathon, his first health marathon in two years!

Attempting to make his fifth team, Galen Rupp finished 16th in 2:14:07 in the 2024 Olympic Marathon Trials in Orlando, Florida. 

Galen Rupp told the assembled media at the 2024 Bank of America Chicago Marathon that he hoped to race in the spring of 2025. 

Originally posted in February 2014. 

On January 16, 2014, Galen Rupp set a new AR for the 5,000 meters with his 13:01.26. On January 25, Galen broke the AR for two miles, running 8:07.41. 

Larry Eder has had a 52-year involvement in the sport of athletics. Larry has experienced the sport as an athlete, coach, magazine publisher, and now, journalist and blogger. His first article, on Don Bowden, America’s first sub-4 minute miler, was published in RW in 1983. Larry has published several magazines on athletics, from American Athletics to the U.S. version of Spikes magazine. He currently manages the content and marketing development of the RunningNetwork, The Shoe Addicts, and RunBlogRun. Of RunBlogRun, his daily pilgrimage with the sport, Larry says: “I have to admit, I love traveling to far away meets, writing about the sport I love, and the athletes I respect, for my readers at runblogrun.com, the most of anything I have ever done, except, maybe running itself.” Also does some updates for BBC Sports at key events, which he truly enjoys. Theme song: Greg Allman, ” I’m no Angel.”

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