Meb Keflezighi

Meb Keflezighi is a retired American long-distance runner, born in 1975. His family left what is now Eritrea, then part of Ethiopia, and reached the United States by way of Italy in 1987; he became a naturalized citizen in 1998, the year he graduated from UCLA, where he won four NCAA championships. He won the silver medal in the marathon at the 2004 Olympics, finished fourth at the 2012 Summer Olympics, and won the 2009 New York City Marathon and the 2014 Boston Marathon, becoming the first American man to win each race since 1982 and 1983. His marathon best of 2:08:37 was set at Boston in 2014. He also drives the MEB Foundation, which promotes healthy living among school-age youth.