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Full name | Keith Alan Brantly | ||||||||||||||
Nationality | American | ||||||||||||||
Born | Scott Air Force Base, Illinois | May 23, 1962||||||||||||||
Height | 5 ft 11 in (1.80 m) | ||||||||||||||
Weight | 141 lb (64 kg) | ||||||||||||||
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Sport | Track and field | ||||||||||||||
Event(s) | Marathon, 10,000 meters | ||||||||||||||
College team | Florida | ||||||||||||||
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Personal best(s) | 1500m: 3:41.15[1] 3000m: 7:51.97[2] 5000m: 13:36.88[1] 10,000m: 28:10.1[1] ½ marathon: 1:01:30[2] Marathon: 2:12:31[1] | ||||||||||||||
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Keith Alan "KB" Brantly (born May 23, 1962) is an American former professional long-distance runner who contended in the men's marathon at the 1996 Summer Olympic Games in Atlanta, Georgia. Brantly finished twenty-eighth of one hundred and eleven runners who completed the race, in a time of 2:18:17.[3] He is recognized for his extensive distance-running career that encompasses nearly three decades at distances that range from one mile to a marathon.
He graduated from the University of Florida with a bachelor's degree in exercise and sports science in 1986, and was later inducted into the University of Florida Athletic Hall of Fame as a "Gator Great."[4]