Patrick Smyth

Residence: Mammoth Lakes, CA
Hometown: Rock Springs, WY
Age on race day: 25

Best Qualifying Performance: 1:02:01 (USA Half Marathon Championships, 2010)
PRs: Half-Marathon, 1:02:01 (2010); Marathon, Debut
Olympic Trials Marathon History: Debut

Career Highlights:

3^rd – 2011 USA Half Marathon Championships (Aramco Houston, 1:02:32)
2^nd – 2010 USA Half Marathon Championships (Aramco Houston, 1:02:01 PR)
2^nd – USA Cross Country Championships, 12K
35^th – 2010 IAAF World Cross Country Championships
3^rd – 2010 USA Track & Field Championships 10,000m
3^rd – 2009 USA 10 Mile Championships

Additional Highlights:

2011

8^th – Zappos.com Rock ‘n’ Roll Las Vegas Half Marathon (1:04:57)
1^st – Deseret News 10K
7^th – USA 20K Championships

2010

7^th – USA 15K Championships
5^th – USA 20K Championships
2^nd – Zappos.com Rock ‘n’ Roll Las Vegas Half Marathon (1:03:31)
1^st – Great Cow Harbor 10K
2^nd – USA 20K Championships

2009

4^th – NCAA Championships 10,000m
11^th – USA 20K Championships
2^nd – Manchester Road Race
1^st – Emerald Nuts Midnight Run, NYRR

Of Note:

Smyth has already had one Olympic experience: in 2002, when the Winter Games came to Salt Lake, he was in high school there at Judge Memorial Catholic. The school gave students two weeks to immerse themselves in the Games, and Smyth took one on biathlon, learning to cross country ski and shoot using a paintball gun. Got tickets to the gold medal round … Also benefited from the indoor track built around the ice at the Utah Olympic Oval … Older sister, Kathleen, earned a running scholarship to Boston College; in high school, her coach suggested Smyth try cross country to get fit for basketball season. He made cross country varsity wearing his basketball shorts … All-American at Notre Dame … Member of Mammoth Track Club, along with 2004 Olympic Silver Medalist Meb Keflezighi.