Galen Rupp wins debut, Meb Keflezighi makes fourth U.S. Olympic team
Galen Rupp won the U.S. Olympic Marathon Trials on Saturday in Los Angeles racing his 42.2K debut while Meb Keflezighi made his fourth Olympic team.
Rupp with one minute on Meb with a mile to go and Ward back in third. #LA2016 pic.twitter.com/rabY2AnVpD
— Calum Neff (@CalNeff) February 13, 2016
Galen Rupp, running his first ever marathon, and Meb Keflezighi, 40, running his 23rd marathon, took the top two spots at the U.S. Marathon Trials in Los Angeles on Saturday afternoon and qualified for the Olympics in Rio.
Jared Ward finished third and also qualified for the U.S. Olympic marathon team; Luke Puskedra was fourth.
“It was a bit of change running the marathon,” Rupp told NBC following the race adding that the 10,000m, marathon double is “definitely possible.”
Amazing Galen Rupp won the marathon despite being attacked by an eclipse of moths during the race. #speedholes pic.twitter.com/M2glly56V5
— Dan McQuade (@dhm) February 13, 2016
Despite it being Rupp’s first ever marathon, he made a significant move around the 35K mark and never looked back as Keflezighi held on for the rest of the race. Keflezighi will be making his fourth Olympic team, 12 years after winning a silver medal in the marathon at the Athens Olympics.
Rupp takes the hat off (@simonwhitfield at the 2008 Olympic triathlon anyone?) #LA2016 pic.twitter.com/3YeknRTASF
— CanadianRunning (@CanadianRunning) February 13, 2016
Top-five results
1 Galen Rupp 2:11:12
2 Meb Keflezighi 2:12:20
3 Jared Ward 2:13:00
4 Luke Puskedra 2:14:12
5 Tyler Pennel 2:14:57
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