Pat Porter, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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American athletic competitor
Date of Birth: 31-May-1959
Place of Birth: Wadena, Minnesota, United States
Date of Death: 26-Jul-2012
Profession: athletics competitor
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Gemini 
About Pat Porter
- Patrick ("Pat") Ralph Porter (May 31, 1959 – July 26, 2012) was an American distance runner.
- Born in Wadena, Minnesota, he graduated from Adams State in 1982 with a degree in marketing, after which he became one of the most dominant U.S.
- distance runners of the 1980s.
- Porter was a two time U.S.
- Olympian, running the 10000 meters at the 1984 and 1988 Olympic Games.
- In 1983 he set the World Record for a road 10K at 27:31.8.
- He won the silver medal at the 1985 IAAF World Cup in Canberra, Australia, getting nipped at the tape by Ethiopia's Wodajo Bulti by six hundredths of a second.
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