Sean McGorty
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| Nationality | American | ||||||||||||
| Born |
March 8, 1995 Fairfax, Virginia | ||||||||||||
| Sport | |||||||||||||
| Sport | Track, cross country | ||||||||||||
| Event(s) | 1500 meters, mile, 5000 meters | ||||||||||||
| College team | Stanford | ||||||||||||
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| Personal best(s) |
1500 meters: 3:40.62[1] 5000 meters: 13:24.25[1] | ||||||||||||
Medal record
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| Updated on May 7, 2016. | |||||||||||||
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Sean McGorty (born March 8, 1995) is an American runner who specializes in middle-distance and long-distance events. He ran for the United States at the 2014 NACAC Cross Country Championships, where he won the junior men's race.
Running career
High school
McGorty attended Chantilly High School in Fairfax, Virginia. Before high school, he tried various sports, but ended up running cross country and track for his high school. In his freshman year of cross country, he recorded 16:26 in a 5K race.[2] At the 2013 Penn Relays, he set the high school boy's mile meet record at 4:04.47.[3]
Collegiate
On January 17, 2015, McGorty made his indoor track debut with Stanford at the University of Washington Indoor Preview, where he ran the mile in 3:59.34, effectively becoming the first collegiate runner to run a sub-four minute mile in 2015.[4] He placed seventh overall at the 2015 NCAA DI Cross Country Championships. On May 1, 2016, he fulfilled the Olympic standard in the men's 5000 meters with a personal record of 13:24.25, effectively clinching a berth at the 2016 US Olympic Trials.[5]
References
- 1 2 All-Athletics. "Profile of Sean McGorty".
- ↑ Bloom, Marc (January 16, 2013). "No Rest for McGorty".
- ↑ Rutz, David. Washington Post: Penn Relays: Sean McGorty breaks mile meet record with year’s best U.S. high school time April 26, 2013
- ↑ Eilerson, Nick (January 21, 2015). "McGorty breaks four-minute mile barrier".
- ↑ Dave Kiefer (May 6, 2016). "Payton Jordan track meet was even better at second glance".