page_title: Alan Webb (runner)
section_title: Post-collegiate/professional
hierarchical_section_title: Alan Webb (runner) / Running career / Post-collegiate/professional
caption_attribution_description: English: Alan Webb at the 2006 Pre Classic
context_page_description: Alan Webb is an American former track and field athlete and former triathlete. He holds the American national record in the mile, with a time of 3 minutes 46.91 seconds. Webb represented the United States at the 2004 Summer Olympics in the men's 1500-meters race. He competed professionally for Nike until the end of 2013. He retired after the 2014 Millrose Games to focus on training for the triathlon. He currently serves as the Assistant coach at the University of Arkansas Little Rock Cross Country and track and field teams.
context_section_description: Since turning professional in 2002, Webb has competed for Nike. In 2004 he became an Olympian by winning the 1500 m in the U.S. Olympic Trials. He was later eliminated in the first round of Olympic competition in Athens. In 2005, he won another national title at 1500 m, and made it to the Finals of the World Championships in Helsinki in that event. He also set personal records at every distance from the 1500 to the 5000 m, setting the American record at 2 miles along the way.
  In 2007, Webb once again won the national championship in the 1500 m run, surging past Bernard Lagat in the final 50 meters for the title. He then finished 8th in the final of the 1500 m at the World Championships in Osaka, Japan. On July 6, 2007 Webb won the IAAF Golden League meet 1500 m race in Paris in a lifetime best of 3:30.54, third fastest on the American list. On July 21, 2007, at a meet in Brasschaat, Belgium, Webb broke the American record in the mile. His time of 3:46.91 bested the 25-year-old record of 3:47.69 run by Steve Scott. He ended the year with a victory in the New York Fifth Avenue Mile.
  On July 6, 2008, Webb failed to qualify for the Beijing Olympics in the 1500 m after finishing 5th in the US Olympic Trials in Eugene, Oregon with a time of 3:41.62.
  After many disappointing results since breaking the American mile record, Webb decided in August 2009 to move to Portland, Oregon, to train with coach Alberto Salazar.  At the time, Salazar already coached Kara Goucher, Galen Rupp, Amy Yoder Begley, and Dathan Ritzenhein, and Webb was his first 1500 m runner. In March 2011, Webb decided to leave Salazar on amicable terms.
  In 2010, he underwent surgery for an Achilles tendon injury and returned at the Fifth Avenue Mile in September, finishing in fourth behind defending champion Andrew Baddeley.
  After his split with coach Alberto Salazar, Webb decided to be coached closer to home under the University of Virginia's Jason Vigilante.
  Webb returned to Portland to join Jerry Schumacher’s group and was focused on 5000 m & 10,000 m, and eventually the marathon.
  Webb has announced his retirement from track running following the 2014 Millrose Games Wannamaker Mile on February 15, 2014.
caption: Alan Webb at the 2006 Prefontaine Classic
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