Pat Porter

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Pat Porter

Personal information
Nationality	American
Born	(1959-05-31)May 31, 1959 Wadena, Minnesota
Died	July 26, 2012(2012-07-26) (aged 53) Sedona, Arizona
Sport
Sport	Track, Long-distance running
Event(s)	5,000 meters, 10,000 meters
College team	Adams State
Achievements and titles
Personal best(s)	3000m: 7:51.0[1] 5000m: 13:33.91[1] 10,000m: 27:46.80[1]
Medal record Men's athletics Representing the  United States IAAF World Cup 1985 Canberra 10,000 m IAAF World Cross Country Championships 1983 Gateshead Team Long Race 1984 East Rutherford Team Long Race 1985 Lisbon Team Long Race 1986 Colombier Team Long Race

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.