Marc Scott (born 21 December 1993) is a British

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. He took his first global medal with bronze in the

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at the 2022 World Indoor Championships. He is the current European record holder in the indoor

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and the British record holder for the road 5 km. Scott represented

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in the

at the 2017 (London) and the 2019 (Doha)

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and at the

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Running career

Scott started running at the age of 11. He grew up playing football as well as running, and was "moderately" successful as a high school runner according to ''Tulsa World''.

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's cross country and distance coach Steve Gulley claimed that he did not seek international recruits, but that Scott reached out to him. In addition to this, an accomplished British runner put in a good word for Scott. On 5 June 2017 Scott was admitted to hospital for a

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he experienced four miles into a regular training run. He reportedly had experienced seizures in the past. In spite of the hospitalisation, doctors did not forbid him from racing, and he went on to win the men's 10,000 metres at the 2017 NCAA DI Outdoor Championships in a time of 29:01.54, running the last 400 metres in 55.44 seconds. After graduating from Tulsa, Scott joined the Bowerman Track Club. He raced the men's 5000 metres at the 2018 European Championships, placing fifth in the final. He became a double British champion when winning the 5000 metres event at the 2020 British Athletics Championships in a time of 13 min 32.98 sec. He had previously won the title in 2018.

International competitions

Personal bests

Information taken from

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– 3:35.93 (Portland 2020) * One mile indoors – 4:05.36 (Iowa City 2017) *

– 7:36.08 (Phoenix 2021) ** 3000 metres indoors – 7:46.11 (Seattle 2020) *

– 13:05.13 (San Juan Capistrano 2021) ** 5000 metres indoors – 12:57.08 (Boston 2022) European record *

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– 27:10.41 (San Juan Capistrano 2021) Road * 5 km – 13:20 (Barrowford 2020) * 10 km – 28:03 (Manchester 2021) * 15 km – 45:29 (Tulsa 2016) * 10 miles – 46:58 (Portsmouth 2019) *

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– 60:39 (Larne 2020)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Scott, Marc 1993 births Living people Athletes from Yorkshire People from Northallerton English male long-distance runners British male long-distance runners English male cross country runners British male cross country runners World Athletics Championships athletes for Great Britain British Athletics Championships winners English expatriates in the United States Olympic athletes of Great Britain Athletes (track and field) at the 2020 Summer Olympics Tulsa Golden Hurricane men's track and field athletes World Athletics Indoor Championships medalists 20th-century British people 21st-century British people