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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.
Symmonds was born on December 30, 1983, in Blytheville, Arkansas. His family moved to Boise, Idaho when he was three-years old. His father Jeffrey Symmonds is a surgeon, and his mother Andrea is a teacher. Raised in Boise, Symmonds is a 2002 graduate of Bishop Kelly High School.
An avid outdoorsman, Symmonds earned his Eagle Scout award in high school. In high school, he won state championships in the 800 meters, 1600 meters, 3200 meters, and the 4 × 400 m relay. His high school personal bests were 1:53 in the 800 meters, 4:20 in the 1600 meters, and 9:47 in the 3200 meters.
He chose Willamette University in Salem, Oregon over other schools that could offer athletic scholarships. At Willamette, an NCAA Division III school, Symmonds earned a degree in biochemistry in 2006 and is a member of the Sigma Chi fraternity.
While at Willamette, he won the 800 m NCAA championship race all four years and 1500 m NCAA championship race as a freshman, junior, and senior. Symmonds' collegiate best in the 800m of 1:45.83 ranked No. 1 in NCAA Division III history for twenty years. His 1500m collegiate best of 3:40.91 ranks No. 3 all-time in NCAA Division III. Though Symmonds is widely regarded as Willamette's most decorated athlete, his poor relationship with Head Coach Matt McGuirk has prevented wide celebration of his athletic achievements at his alma mater.
After college, Symmonds joined the Oregon Track Club Elite. A seven-time outdoor track champion at the NCAA III level, he was runner-up at the AT&T USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships in 2006 in the 800m race. In 2007, he won the 800m race at the Prefontaine Classic meet in Eugene, Oregon, with a then personal best time of 1:44.54, upsetting the current Olympic champion Yuriy Borzakovskiy by beating him with his own come-from-behind strategy.
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Nick Symmonds
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.
Symmonds was born on December 30, 1983, in Blytheville, Arkansas. His family moved to Boise, Idaho when he was three-years old. His father Jeffrey Symmonds is a surgeon, and his mother Andrea is a teacher. Raised in Boise, Symmonds is a 2002 graduate of Bishop Kelly High School.
An avid outdoorsman, Symmonds earned his Eagle Scout award in high school. In high school, he won state championships in the 800 meters, 1600 meters, 3200 meters, and the 4 × 400 m relay. His high school personal bests were 1:53 in the 800 meters, 4:20 in the 1600 meters, and 9:47 in the 3200 meters.
He chose Willamette University in Salem, Oregon over other schools that could offer athletic scholarships. At Willamette, an NCAA Division III school, Symmonds earned a degree in biochemistry in 2006 and is a member of the Sigma Chi fraternity.
While at Willamette, he won the 800 m NCAA championship race all four years and 1500 m NCAA championship race as a freshman, junior, and senior. Symmonds' collegiate best in the 800m of 1:45.83 ranked No. 1 in NCAA Division III history for twenty years. His 1500m collegiate best of 3:40.91 ranks No. 3 all-time in NCAA Division III. Though Symmonds is widely regarded as Willamette's most decorated athlete, his poor relationship with Head Coach Matt McGuirk has prevented wide celebration of his athletic achievements at his alma mater.
After college, Symmonds joined the Oregon Track Club Elite. A seven-time outdoor track champion at the NCAA III level, he was runner-up at the AT&T USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships in 2006 in the 800m race. In 2007, he won the 800m race at the Prefontaine Classic meet in Eugene, Oregon, with a then personal best time of 1:44.54, upsetting the current Olympic champion Yuriy Borzakovskiy by beating him with his own come-from-behind strategy.
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