Galen Rupp is a track and field athlete who has competed for the United States.
He competed at the 2008, 2012, 2016, and 2020 Summer Olympic Games.
After finishing outside the top 12 runners with a season best in the 10000 metres at Beijing 2008, Rupp surprised the vast field of experienced long-distance runners with a silver medal behind the homebound British favorite Mohamed Farah four years later in London. With this, he became the first American athlete after 48 years to win an Olympic medal in the 10000 metres race. He also ran through the 5000 metres but slipped off the podium to seventh.
Rupp was selected to the U.S. track and field team as a marathoner for Rio de Janeiro 2016, snaring the final podium spot for the bronze with a personal best of 2:10:05. He also sought to add another medal in his signature long-distance race, the 10000 metres, but he placed fifth from a field of 34 entrants. At his fourth Olympics in 2021, Rupp ran with the leaders through the 30-kilometre course of the Olympic marathon race, held in Sapporo, Japan, but could not match the pace set by the eventual winner Eliud Kipchoge of Kenya, finishing more than three minutes behind him in eighth place.