게일런 루프

소개

게일런 루프(Galen Rupp, 1986년 5월 8일 ~ )는 미국의 장거리 달리기 선수이다. 2012년 하계 올림픽에서 10000m 종목에서 은메달, 2016년 하계 올림픽 육상 남자 마라톤에서 동메달을 기록했다.

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 United States Olympic Trials (marathon) in Atlanta with a time of 2:09:20, and qualified for the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games, where he finished eighth.