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Chuck Smead

Chuck Smead (left) at 2012 Mount Washington Road Race
Personal information
Born	August 4, 1951 (1951-08-04) (age 73)
Medal record Men's Athletics Representing the  United States Pan American Games 1975 Mexico City Marathon

Charles Smead (born August 4, 1951) is an American long-distance runner, who made his mark on the sport by taking second in the Marathon at the 1975 Pan American Games in Mexico City.

Originally from Santa Paula High School in Santa Paula, California, where he was an outstanding two-miler, taking second place at the prestigious Arcadia Invitational in 1968.

He continued to excel in long distance at Humboldt State University, where he won the NCAA Division II 6 mile/10000 metre Championship twice. In 1972 he began a string of three straight wins in the famous Pikes Peak Marathon, he added a fourth victory in 1976. He has completed the race six times, the most recent as a 57-year-old. He also won the Avenue of the Giants Marathon in 1974 In 1980, he was runner up at the Chicago Marathon.

In the 1970s he was one of the early luminaries of ultramarathoning, yet as a Senior athlete he is not above sprinting 100 metres. He was twice ranked in the United States top ten in the marathon. He continues to be active, winning the M60 division of the 2012 USA Masters 5 km Cross Country Championships in October 2012.

Smead has been credited with spreading the sport of ultramarathoning into Europe.

References

1. "Track and Field Statistics".
2. "Lodi News-Sentinel - Google News Archive Search". news.google.com.
3. Arcadia History Archived 2011-07-21 at the Wayback Machine
4. "Men's Top 10 List (PDF)" (PDF). Cal Poly Humboldt Athletics.
5. "NCAA Division II Men's Track & Field Champions - 10,000-Meter Run". Archived from the original on 2010-12-04. NCAA Div II champions
6. "Pikes Peak Winners". Archived from the original on 2007-10-17. Retrieved 2010-02-09.
7. "Masters History" (PDF).
8. "Results". Pikes Peak Marathon.
9. "Avenue of the Giants Marathon".
10. "Chicago inspires - Media Guide" (PDF). 2012-10-07. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-02-04.
11. "American UltraRunning Association". www.americanultra.org.
12. "Ultra fast (November 08, 2002)". www.paloaltoonline.com.
13. "Colorado Senior Olympics" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-07-15. Retrieved 2010-02-09.
14. "All-Time U.S. Rankings — Men's Marathon" (PDF). www.trackandfieldnews.com. Archived from the original (PDF) on May 20, 2011.
15. "2012 USA Masters 5 km Cross Country Championships Men's Age Division Results". Archived from the original on 2019-12-22. Retrieved 2019-12-22.
16. Mostly Paved Blog
17. "Pablo: The Man Behind a Remarkable Sierre-Zinal Record - Run the Alps". 25 April 2015.
18. "Legends of the Trail". 24 February 2020.

External links

• Chuck Smead at ARRS
• Chuck Smead at ITRA

• American male long-distance runners
• Track and field athletes from California
• 1951 births
• Living people
• Athletes (track and field) at the 1975 Pan American Games
• Senior Olympic competitors
• Sportspeople from Ventura County, California
• California State Polytechnic University, Humboldt alumni
• People from Santa Paula, California
• Pan American Games silver medalists for the United States in athletics (track and field)
• Medalists at the 1975 Pan American Games
• 20th-century American sportsmen