LOS ANGELES — Galen Rupp entered the U.S. Olympic Marathon Team Trials Saturday with a peculiar disadvantage in race experience. Which is to say he’d never actually run, you know, a marathon.
So, of course, he won the race, covering the 26.2-mile course in 2 hours, 11 minutes, 12 seconds and earning a spot on the U.S. team that will compete at the Summer Games in Rio de Janeiro in August.
Rupp, 29, became the first man since George Young in 1968 to win the trials in a marathon debut and it was the sixth fastest time in trials history.