Nick Symmonds

Nick Symmonds

Nick Symmonds at the 2010 Hanžeković Memorial
Personal information
Nationality	American
Born	(1983-12-30) 30 December 1983 (age 33) Boise, Idaho, United States
Height	5 ft 10 in (1.78 m)
Weight	167 lb (76 kg)
Website	www.nicksymmonds.com
Achievements and titles
Personal best(s)	400 meters: 47.45 800 meters: 1:42.95 1500 meters: 3:34.55 Mile: 3:59.69
Medal record Men’s athletics Representing the  United States World Championships 2013 Moscow 800 m

Nicholas "Nick" Symmonds (born December 30, 1983) is an American middle-distance track athlete, from Boise, Idaho, specializing in the 800 meters and 1500 meters distances. Symmonds signed with Brooks Running in January 2014 after a 7-year sponsorship with Nike. In college at Willamette University he won seven NCAA Division III titles in outdoor track. Symmonds is a 6-time US National 800 meters champion. He has competed over 800 m at the last two Olympic Games, reaching the semi-finals in Beijing 2008, while in London 2012 he finished fifth in the final, running a personal best of 1:42.95. He won a silver medal in the 800 meters at the 2013 World Championships, having previously finished sixth in the 2009 final and fifth in 2011.

Symmonds was born on December 30, 1983, in Blytheville, Arkansas. His family moved to Boise, Idaho when he was three. His father Jeffrey Symmonds is a surgeon, and his mother Andrea is a teacher. Raised in Boise, Nick is a 2002 graduate of Bishop Kelly High School in that city. An avid outdoorsman, Nick earned his Eagle Scout award in high school. In high school he won state championships in the 800 m (PR 1:53), 1600 m (PR 4:20) and 3200 m individual races and on the 4 × 400 m relay. He chose Willamette University in Salem, Oregon over other schools that could offer athletic scholarships. At Willamette, a NCAA Division III school, Symmonds earned a degree in biochemistry in 2006 and is a member of the Sigma Chi fraternity.