Pat Porter

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Pat Porter

Personal information
Nationality	10,000m: 27:46.80[1]
Medal record Men's athletics Representing the  United States IAAF World Cup 1985 Canberra 10,000 m IAAF World Cross Country Championships 1983 Gateshead Team Long Race 1984 East Rutherford Team Long Race 1985 Lisbon Team Long Race 1986 Colombier Team Long Race

Patrick ("Pat") Ralph Porter (May 31, 1959 – July 26, 2012) was an American distance runner. Born in

1984
Porter finished 15th in 28:34.59 at the Athletics at the 1984 Summer Olympics - 10000 metres.^[4]

1988
Porter did not advance to the Athletics at the 1988 Summer Olympics - 10000 metres final after finishing 11th in 28:45.04^[5] in the 1st round, ranking him 23rd in the Olympics that year, but only 20 qualified to the final. His time would have ranked 17th as several runners ran slower in the final, still almost 1:25 (almost a lap and a half) behind the winner.

In 1998 Porter played Finnish distance runner Lasse Virén in Without Limits, a biographical film about American distance legend Steve Prefontaine.^[6] He was married to fellow U.S. 1988 Olympic Team member high jumper Trish King.^[7]

Honor

Porter was inducted in the

On July 26, 2012, at approximately 8:30 a.m., Porter was killed in an airplane crash along with his 15-year-old son Connor and his son's friend, 14-year-old Connor Mantsch. Porter, an avid pilot, on takeoff hit a boundary fence at the south end of the Sedona Airport runway just outside Sedona, Arizona, then went down a steep mesa and burst into flames upon impact at the bottom of the hill. He was 53 years old.^[10]

Competition record

Cross country

Year	Competition	Venue	Position	Event	Notes
Representing the  United States
1982	World Cross Country Championships	Rome, Italy	64th	12 km	35:23
1983	World Cross Country Championships	Gateshead, England	9th	12 km	37:12
1984	World Cross Country Championships	New York City, United States	4th	11.8 km	33:34
1985	World Cross Country Championships	Lisbon, Portugal	12th	12 km	34:02
1986	World Cross Country Championships	Neuchatel, Switzerland	6th	12 km	35:48
1987	World Cross Country Championships	Warsaw, Poland	7th	12 km	37:04
1988	World Cross Country Championships	Auckland, New Zealand	28th	12 km	36:26
1989	World Cross Country Championships	Stavanger, Norway	31st	12 km	41:31

Track and field

Year	Competition	Venue	Position	Event	Notes
Representing the  United States
1982	USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships	Knoxville, Tennessee	6th	10,000 m	28:48.8
1983	USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships	Indianapolis, Indiana	5th	10,000 m	28:35.92
1984	US Olympic Trials	Los Angeles, California	3rd	10,000 m	28:03.86
	Olympic Games	Los Angeles, United States	15th	10,000 m	28:34.59
1985	USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships	Indianapolis, Indiana	3rd	10,000 m	28:12.9
	World Cup	Canberra, Australia	2nd	10,000 m	29:23.02
1987	USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships	San Jose, California	4th	10,000 m	28:29.7
1988	US Olympic Trials	Indianapolis, Indiana	3rd	10,000 m	29:09.92
	Olympic Games	Seoul, South Korea	heats	10,000 m	28:45.04
1989	USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships	Houston, Texas	1st	10,000 m	28:45.78
1990	USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships	Norwalk, California	7th	10,000 m	28:38.99
1991	USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships	New York, New York	5th	10,000 m	28:26.49
1992	US Olympic Trials	New Orleans, Louisiana	6th	10,000 m	28:54.6
1994	USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships	Knoxville, Tennessee	6th	10,000 m	29:24.05

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