.S. Half-Marathon champion; 2006 USA Cross Country champion; 2005 NCAA 5,000m champion; 2003 NCAA Cross Country runner-up; three-time NCAA Cross Country All-American; USA 20 km and half-marathon record… + See More +
.S. Half-Marathon champion; 2006 USA Cross Country champion; 2005 NCAA 5,000m champion; 2003 NCAA Cross Country runner-up; three-time NCAA Cross Country All-American; USA 20 km and half-marathon record… + See More
- See Less - .S. Half-Marathon champion; 2006 USA Cross Country champion; 2005 NCAA 5,000m champion; 2003 NCAA Cross Country runner-up; three-time NCAA Cross Country All-American; USA 20 km and half-marathon record holder
At the 2007 Olympic Trials – Men’s Marathon, Hall tamed what had been thought of as a slow and very difficult course, breaking the Olympic Trials record with his winning time of 2:09:02. He posted the second-fastest marathon time ever by an American of 2:06.17 from his fifth place finish at the 2008 London Marathon. Hall showed signs of becoming a future Olympic marathoner when he made his marathon debut in style, finishing seventh in April at the 2007 Flora London Marathon in 2:08:24. Hall's time was the fastest ever debut marathon for an American man by 1:16.Hall has gone from high school prodigy to national record holder in the span of just a few years. Hall set a U.S. record and earned a national title on January 14, 2007, when he won the men’s U.S. Half Marathon National Championship in 59 minutes 43 seconds becoming the first American to break the one-hour barrier at that distance. His performance bettered the previous American record by Mark Curp that had stood for 21 years by 1:12, and makes him the 13th fastest performer in the world at the half marathon distance. Hall won his first major cross country title when he captured the men’s long course national crown at the 2006 USA Cross Country Championships at historic Van Cortlandt Park in The Bronx, N.Y. Hall won going away with a 27-second margin over the rest of the field. "It was probably the most fun race of my life," said Hall. "It's my first 12k. I thought that I would make a move and see who would go, and maybe if I get a gap, then keep going.” Hall was the fastest American in the long course race at the 2006 World Cross Country Championships in Japan, placing 43rd. Also in 2006 Hall set an American record in the 20 km of 57:54 on October 8 at the IAAF World Road Running Championships in Debrecen, Hungary. Hall enjoyed a strong season in 2005 that included winning the NCAA Outdoor 5,000m title, placing third at the USA Outdoor Championships, where he set a new personal best of 13:16.03, and competing at his first World Outdoor Championships. As a prep standout, Hall competed at the Peregrine Systems U.S. Open at Stanford in the 1500 meters where he ran 3:42.70, the third fastest high school performance ever for the metric mile ... California state champion in the 1600 meters during his senior season with a state record time of 4:02 ... had the #2 high school time in the U.S. in the 1600 meters at 4:00.52 ... The National Scholastic mile champion in his junior season at 4:06 ... Also won the state title during his junior season in the two-mile at 8:55.03 ...the California state cross country champion during his junior and senior seasons at Big Bear High School ... Finished third at the Footlocker Nationals in Orlando during his senior season. Wife Sara Bei-Hall is also a competitive runner, who placed 26th in the 4 km race at the 2006 World Cross Country Championships. The Halls are active with charitable groups such as Team World Vision. They worked on a campaign in 2008 entitled, “More Precious than Gold,” that raised nearly a million dollars to help bring clean water wells and irrigation systems to poor communities in Zambia.
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Anonymous Coward April 15 at 2:04pm
millions of africans can run better? i doubt that. There are a decent number but millions is completely false.
aouldr said: “I am just disgusted by all this kind of attention to a WHITE AMERICAN RUNNER.
Millions of africans runners can run and still run better than RYAN HALL but no one giving them any attention! this is disgrace to all you guys who are interviewing and getting in bed with ryan. what a chame!
In the next race, ryan will not do his best because of all this pempering of american media. He lacks the real motivation to run from hunger, poverty and helplessness like all great african runners and that is the real motivation.
They did not run by choice but to do good and better in their lifes.
Ryan please go bad, keep taining and win boston after that it would be allright to give some interviews. that is what i think and no heartfeelings”
Race has nothing to do with it. We love Abdi, KD, Hall, Goucher, Leo, and we will interview almost anyone, but that being said, if you run fast but cannot speak the language of the users of our site it really does nothing for us or our users. By nature Africans are quiet and that does not make for good videos. People love Abdi, bc he opens up and you get to know him, the same with Andrew Wheating or even Kim Smith in her shy way. Personality not race make for good videos.
Dude did you not see the love fest on this site for Abdi last year? This website was pretty much a marketing machine for his whole persona as "The Black Cactus". That's just one example among many. Get a clue man. There's no conspiracy here just because Hall is white. We're proud of all the American runners and they get equal hype.
I am just disgusted by all this kind of attention to a WHITE AMERICAN RUNNER.
Millions of africans runners can run and still run better than RYAN HALL but no one giving them any attention! this is disgrace to all you guys who are interviewing and getting in bed with ryan. what a chame!
In the next race, ryan will not do his best because of all this pempering of american media. He lacks the real motivation to run from hunger, poverty and helplessness like all great african runners and that is the real motivation.
They did not run by choice but to do good and better in their lifes.
Ryan please go bad, keep taining and win boston after that it would be allright to give some interviews. that is what i think and no heartfeelings
haha I love that how tight flotrack is with all the elite athletes "hey can we do an interview? Yea sure just come on back to my room and interview me while I am in the tub" haha great stuff
after each and every hard workout; take it right after the workout; water should be 50F and you should be in there for 9 minutes.No yodeling !! Recreational runners don't do it very often but all the professionals do it. I'ts kind of like the saying about an apple a day keeps the doctor away; change apple into icebath and you got the message..... but it's cold !!!
Ryan Hall after Gasparilla
“I am just disgusted by all this kind of attention to a WHITE AMERICAN RUNNER.
Millions of africans runners can run and still run better than RYAN HALL but no one giving them any attention! this is disgrace to all you guys who are interviewing and getting in bed with ryan. what a chame!
In the next race, ryan will not do his best because of all this pempering of american media. He lacks the real motivation to run from hunger, poverty and helplessness like all great african runners and that is the real motivation.
They did not run by choice but to do good and better in their lifes.
Ryan please go bad, keep taining and win boston after that it would be allright to give some interviews. that is what i think and no heartfeelings”
Millions of africans runners can run and still run better than RYAN HALL but no one giving them any attention! this is disgrace to all you guys who are interviewing and getting in bed with ryan. what a chame!
In the next race, ryan will not do his best because of all this pempering of american media. He lacks the real motivation to run from hunger, poverty and helplessness like all great african runners and that is the real motivation.
They did not run by choice but to do good and better in their lifes.
Ryan please go bad, keep taining and win boston after that it would be allright to give some interviews. that is what i think and no heartfeelings
“I hope this isn't true they are my two favorite runners I was so excited”
“About the Haile vs Hall....Haile opted not to race.”