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"The last 100 meters, when I was running my guts out, that’s my favorite part of the race,” she told the Denver Post. “I love this sport. I love how competitive it is, I love how hard the 1,500 meters is."

 

Emma Coburn 

• Age: 25 at time of Rio Olympics 
• Height: 5'8"
• Weight: 120
• Hometown: Crested Butte, Colo. 
• At ����ֱ��: Three-time NCAA champion, twice in steeplechase, once in indoor mile. 

Medal: Bronze

• Event: 3,000-meter steeplechase 
• Time: 9 min., 7.63 sec 

Prior Olympic appearances: 

2012 London 

• Where do you keep your medal: 
• In my suitcase or my purse, because I've been traveling so much. Once I'm home I'll probably keep it on a bookshelf. 
• Who has worn your medal: 
• Hundreds of people. The day I won it I was letting every single stranger in Rio try it on and walk around with it. 
• Pre-race ritual: 
• The meal that I have is probably the most rigid part of my routine. 
• Last meal eaten before Olympic medal race: 
• Bagel with banana and peanut butter, the same meal I always eat three hours before the gun goes off.
• First meal after race: 
• Recovery bars. Probably cheesecake and a burger. 
• No. pairs of running shoes brought to Rio: 
• 2 spikes, 3 pairs training shoes 

• No. days between Olympic medal and next race: 
• 12 
• 1st 
• Olympic steeplechase medal for a U.S. woman; her time beat her own American record in the event. 
• Days off after medal race before next training session: 
• 0 
• Miles typically run per week: 
• 80
• Days off: 
• 0
• Hours slept night before medal race: 
• 8

"The last four or five laps were tough. I just kept on telling myself to keep chipping away at the gap and once I got my position, all I wanted to do was to hold it. It wasn’t until the last 400 or 600 meters when I realized that I had it and just couldn’t lose it."