Who is the best ever runner from your state?

CT

Jan Merill

Bill Rogers

Donn Cabral

Oregon

1) Galen Rupp

2) Steve Prefontaine

3) Bill Dellinger

4) Dyrol Burleson

5) Dub Myers

6) Bill McChesney

New Mexico

George Young

Please don't waste your time debating this fact.

New York

Frank Shorter (from Middletown) come to mind first

Matt Centrowitz the elder

Vince Matthews

Meredith Rainey

I surely omitted way too many

Second Place wrote:

Being from Massachusetts, the following come to mind:

Deena Kastor

Shalane Flanagan

Bill Rodgers

Alberto Salazar ...

... but based on records and major championship medals won, the answer is ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

LYNN JENNINGS.

Bill Rodgers is from CT.

Yanqui wrote:

New York

Frank Shorter (from Middletown) come to mind first

Matt Centrowitz the elder

Vince Matthews

Meredith Rainey

I surely omitted way too many

I don't know if you omitted way too many, but you certainly omitted the most obvious.

Mary Cain.

The reason I waited so long to reply to your George Young post is because I haven't stopped laughing for the last 45 minutes.

George Young is not the best runner from New Mexico. And that is a fact Jack!

The 1968 were a fluke Olmypics for George Young. He lucked out that the 3000 steeplechase was a slow tactical race. It was the slowest Olympic Final since the 1948 London Olympics.

Amos Biwott, Benjamin Kogo, Kerry O'Brien, and Victor Kudinsky were all better than George Young going into the 1968 Olympics. It took a tactical race to even give George Young a sniff at the medal stand in Mexico City. The buzz in the Olympic Village before the 3000 steeple Final was that people would pass out because of the altitude if the pace was a fact one. The runners were psyched out, and nobody wanted to run an honest race in the final.

There are plenty of runners in New Mexico that can be nominated as the best runner in the state. But George Young, I am afraid, doesn't even come close to making that list. Sorry Charlie!

Ohio

Bob Schul

Dave Wottle

Bob Kennedy

Madeline Manning

Mark Croghan

Ritz baby!

North Carolina

Jim Beatty, Tony Waldrop, Bobby Mack, Ryan Hill

Julie and Mary Shea, Julia Lucas

Delaware

Mike Monagle

Maine

First ones that come to mind are:

Joan Benoit Samuelson

Ben True

Louie Luchini

Riley Masters

Ryan Fenton (easy choice)

MARYLAND

Centro Jr.

Define "from". Born, reared, attended school

Yanqui wrote:

New York

Frank Shorter (from Middletown) come to mind first

Matt Centrowitz the elder

Vince Matthews

Meredith Rainey

I surely omitted way too many

Shorter was born in Germany

Second Place wrote:

Being from Massachusetts, the following come to mind:

Deena Kastor

Shalane Flanagan

Bill Rodgers

Alberto Salazar ...

... but based on records and major championship medals won, the answer is ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

LYNN JENNINGS.

Not only is Bill Rodgers from Ct.

Deena Drossin (Kastor) ran HS in California. If you are going by where she was born (waltham) then you can't include Shalane because she was born in Boulder.

Gerry Lindgren

Jordan Mcnamara

Matt Davis

Regarding Michigan... a most Honerable Mention should go to Greg Meyer. Not only was he the last American male to win the Boston Marathon, he may also have been our first sub 4:00 sub 2:08 guy..

Oops... Meyer sub 2:09.