Two-time Olympic medalist Galen Rupp will miss the spring marathon season following left foot surgery after his fifth-place finish in the Chicago Marathon on Oct. 7, according to the Oregonian.
Rupp has been the top U.S. marathoner since debuting at 26.2 miles at the February 2016 Olympic Trials. He won that race in Los Angeles, then took bronze in Rio (adding to his 2012 Olympic 10,000m silver medal).
Rupp then finished second at his first city marathon in Boston in 2017 and won Chicago later that year. He was one of many dropouts at this year’s Boston Marathon, with the worst weather in the oldest annual marathon’s recent history.