Garrett Heath (born November 3, 1985) is an American runner from

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, who raced in various middle and long-distance running events. He represented the United States at the 2010 World Indoor Championships where he finished seventh in the 1500 meters. He is the elder brother of

Elliott Heath Elliott Heath (born February 4, 1989) is a runner who specialized in middle and long-distance disciplines. He competed at the 2012 US Olympic track trials for the 5000-meter race. He is the younger brother of Garrett Heath. Running career Heat ...

High school

Heath is from Winona, Minnesota where he won 6 state titles in track and field and

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and two state titles in

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. He qualified for the

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in his junior and senior years of high school and finished sixth in 2002 and 10th in 2003.

Collegiate

Heath graduated high school and attended

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, where he was a nine-time All-American (placing in the top 8 at the national championships in track and field or 35 in the single-event NCAA cross-country championships) including leadoff leg to the championship distance-medley relay team in the 2007 NCAA Indoor Track and Field Championships. He specialized in the 1500, mile and 5K and was one of the lead runners for the Stanford cross-country team. He broke the

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barrier in 2007. He was one of only three collegians along with teammate Russell Brown and

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to run a mile in under four minutes that year. Heath was also the runner-up to Oklahoma State University's

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in the 2009 NCAA Outdoor Track and Field Championships.

Post-collegiate

As a professional, Heath runs for Brooks, training with the Brooks Beasts track club. In 2012, the Olympic year, he was ranked 4th among US distance runners in the mile and the 1500 indoors although he was ranked 8th among U.S. metric milers in outdoor track and finished ninth in his semifinal heat, thus failing to qualify for the 2012 Olympic Team. Heath defeated

in 2013 to win th
USA 1 Mile Road Championship
Heath won the 2014

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in 13:54. In 2014, Heath was the surprise winner of the

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short course (4 km) race, then defended his title by winning again in 2015. A third victory came in 2016 and he gave world champion

Mo Farah Sir Mohamed Muktar Jama Farah (born Hussein Abdi Kahin; 23 March 1983) is a British long-distance runner. His ten global championship gold medals (four Olympic and six World titles) make him the most successful male track distance runner ever ...

his first cross country defeat since 2010.Mulkeen, Jon (January 9, 2016)
Farah beaten as Heath secures hat-trick in Edinburgh
IAAF. Retrieved on 2016-01-10.

USA National Championships

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