Nick Symmonds

Nick Symmonds
	Symmonds in 2011
Personal information
Born	30 December 1983; Blytheville, Arkansas, U.S.
Height	5 ft 10 in (1.78 m)
Weight	195 lb (88 kg)
Sport
Sport	Athletics (middle-distance running)
College team	Willamette University
Club	Brooks
Turned pro	2006
Coached by	Danny Mackey; Sam Lapray
Retired	2018
Achievements and titles
Personal bests	*All information from athlete's World Athletics profile unless otherwise noted. Outdoors; 100 m: 11.52 (Eugene 2019, Masters 35+); 200 m: 24.39 (Eugene 2020, Masters 35+); 400 m: 47.45 (Dublin 2012); 600 m: 1:14.47 (Eugene 2008); 800 m: 1:42.95 (London 2012); 1000 m: 2:16.35 (Eugene 2010); 1500 m: 3:34.55 (Monaco 2013); Mile: 3:59.68 (Nashville 2015); 3000 m: 8:20.42 (Seattle 2015); Indoors; 600 m: 1:16.89i (New York 2013); 800 m: 1:46.48i (Valencia 2008); 1000 m: 2:18.87i (New York 2014); Mile: 3:56.72i (Seattle 2007); Road; Mile: 4:00.1h (New York 2013); 5 kilometers: 15:49 (Boise 2014); Marathon: 3:00:35 (Honolulu 2017); Other; Beer mile: 5:19 (2012);
Medal record
Men's athletics
Representing the United States
World Championships

Nicholas Boone Symmonds (born December 30, 1983) is an American YouTube personality and retired middle-distance runner from Boise, Idaho, who specialized in the 800 meters and 1500 meters. At Willamette University, he won seven NCAA Division III titles outdoors. Symmonds is a 6-time US national 800 meters champion. He has competed in the 800m at two Olympic Games, reaching the semi-finals in Beijing 2008, and finishing fifth in the London 2012 final, running a personal best of 1:42.95 behind David Rudisha's world record of 1:40.91. The following year, 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 the 2011 final.

Symmonds signed with Brooks Running in January 2014 after a 7-year sponsorship with Nike. In October 2014, Symmonds and his coach Sam Lapray co-founded Run Gum, a supplement company which makes functional chewing gum.

Following his retirement, Symmonds gained more popularity in 2020 through his YouTube channel which primarily focuses on running, powerlifting, and fitness. In May 2025, Symmonds summited Mount Everest, thus becoming the first person to both summit Everest and run a sub four-minute mile, with a 3:56.72 mile personal best set in 2007.