Gitte Karlshøj (born 14 May 1959 in Lyderslev, Stevns, Sjælland, Denmark is a Danish Track and Field athlete, specializing in long distance running.
 She ran the 3000 metres at the 1992 Summer Olympics, finishing in a non-qualifying 6th place in the qualifying round and the Marathon at the 1996 Summer Olympics, failing to finish.
 She also made the final at the 1992 IAAF World Championships.
Aldwyn Sappleton (born 21 December 1981 in Saint Ann Parish) is a Jamaican track and field athlete, who specialized in middle distance running.
 He won three medals, including gold in the 1500 metres, at the 1999 CARIFTA Games in Fort-de-France, Martinique.
 He is also a four-time All-American track and field athlete, while playing for the Oklahoma Sooners, at the University of Oklahoma in Norman.
Jerry Schumacher is an American coach for the sport of track and field, specializing in distance running.
 He has coached Olympic bronze medalist and the former American women's 10k record holder Shalane Flanagan, former Canadian 10k record holder Simon Bairu, the former men's American 10k record holder Chris Solinsky, the men's American two mile record holder Matt Tegenkamp, and the women's NCAA 10k record holder Lisa Koll.
 Prior to 2008 he was the head coach of the University of Wisconsin–Madison track and field team.
Shalane Flanagan (born July 8, 1981) is an American long-distance runner.
 She holds the American record times in the 3000 m (indoor), 5000 m (indoor) and 15K road race.
 She won the bronze medal at the 2008 Olympics in the 10,000 m (since upgraded to silver), a bronze at the 2011 IAAF World Cross Country Championships and was second in the 2010 New York City Marathon.
James Munyala (born November 2, 1952) is a Kenyan athlete, known for running the steeplechase.
 Running for the University of Texas, El Paso he won three straight NCAA Championships 1975-1977.
 His 1976 win set the Franklin Field record that stood for 32 years.
 He was part of the controversial beginning wave of imported, older Kenyan athletes who allowed UTEP and Washington State University to dominate NCAA distance running.
 At the time, Craig Virgin suggested these athletes displaced opportunities for American athletes.
 Another star athlete mentioned was Washington State's Henry Rono who succeeded Munyala as NCAA Champion, with Munyala as runner-up, in 1978, blocking his attempt to win four straight.
 Later in 1978, Rono and Munyala went 1-2 for Kenya at both the African Games and the Commonwealth Games.
 Munyala won the Indoor Mile for UTEP in 1978 and is in the university's Hall of Fame when they ran the triple crown of the Men's Indoor, Outdoor and Cross Country Championships all in the same year.
Bob Larsen (born c. 1939) is a Hall of Fame Track and field athletics coach, known largely for coaching distance runners, though he has had success coaching across a full range of events.
 Larsen is currently a coach at the Mammoth Lakes Mammoth Track Club high altitude training camp.
 His most notable athlete is Mebrahtom Keflezighi, the 2004 Olympic Silver medalist in the Marathon, an accomplishment that ended a 20-year drought in United States distance running medals at the Olympic level (28 years for male athletes).
 Building on that success, Keflezighi won the men's division of the 2009 New York Marathon, the first American athlete to accomplish that feat since Alberto Salazar did it 27 years before in 1982, and the 2014 Boston Marathon.
 Previous to that Larsen coached the UCLA Cross Country and then Track teams between 1979 and his retirement in 1999.
Doris Brown Heritage (born September 17, 1942) is a retired American runner.
 She won the International Cross Country Championships five times in a row, in 1967–1971, and collected two silver medals in the 800 m at the Pan American Games, in 1967 and 1971; she placed fifth in this event at the 1968 Summer Olympics.
 Brown briefly held the world record in the 3000 m in 1971.
 After retiring from competitions she had a long career as a running coach, and helped prepare the national women's team to the 1984 Summer Olympics.
 She was inducted into the National Track and Field Hall of Fame, National Track Coaches Hall of Fame and National Distance Running Hall of Fame.
Toshiko D'Elia ("née" Kishimoto) (January 2, 1930 – February 19, 2014) was an American Masters athletics long distance running legend.
 She was a member of the 1996 inaugural class of the Masters division of the USATF National Track and Field Hall of Fame.
 She holds numerous American long distance running records, primarily in the W75 age division.
Amy Cragg (née Hastings, born January 21, 1984) is an American track and field athlete, specializing in long distance running events.
 She is the 2015 American champion in the Marathon, the 2012 American champion in the 10,000 meters, and a qualifier for the 2012 Summer Olympics.
 In fall 2014, Amy married Olympian Alistair Cragg.
 Under her married name, she won the 2016 U. S. Olympic Trials Marathon, qualifying her to run in the 2016 Summer Olympics, and in 2017, she won the bronze medal in the marathon at the IAAF World Championships.
The National Distance Running Hall of Fame was established on July 11, 1998, to honor those who have contributed to the sport of distance running.
 Many of those who are inducted have achieved great success as runners, but some members are enshrined for their ability to bring fame and recognition to the sport of running.
 Many of the individuals inducted into this prestigious Hall of Fame, are extremely influential in regard to the recognition and progress the American distance running has undergone throughout the years.

Question: What medal did the athlete an American coach  for the sport of track and field, specializing in distance running win in the 2008 Olympics ?
Answer: bronze medal