Pat Porter
Patrick ("Pat") Ralph Porter (May 31, 1959 – July 26, 2012) was an American distance runner. Born in
Wadena, Minnesota, he graduated from
Adams State in 1982 with a degree in marketing, after which he became one of the most dominant U.S. distance runners of the 1980s. Porter was a two time U.S. Olympian, running the
10000 meters at the 1984 and 1988
Olympic Games. In 1983 he set the World Record for a road 10K at 27:31.8. He won the silver medal at the
1985 IAAF World Cup in Canberra, Australia, getting nipped at the tape by Ethiopia's
Wodajo Bulti by six hundredths of a second.
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