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5 Things to Know About Olympic Runner Grant Fisher: Age, Parents and More


Grant Fisher is one of only four American men to win an Olympic medal in the 10,000-meter event, the longest race of the Olympics

Fisher’s close race with Berihu and Aregawi made him only the fourth American man to ever medal in the event and the first since Galen Rupp took silver for the 10,000-meter in 2012. Grant’s Team USA bio for the 2024 Olympics noted that his grandfather ran in the Pac-12, a conference for collegiate athletes. The outlet reported that Walker would cheer Grant on at the Olympics and then spend additional time with him in Europe before heading to Boston to start a human factors engineering degree at Tufts University.

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