Episode 601: Grant Fisher on Making History with Two Olympic Bronze Medals
I'll Have Another with Lindsey Hein Podcast
SandyBoy Productions
4.9 • 2.1K Ratings
🗓️ 4 April 2025
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Really excited to bring you another track star on the podcast—Grant Fisher joins us today! Grant had the year of his life in 2024, bringing home two bronze medals from the Paris Olympics in both the 5,000m and the 10,000m. He made history as the first American ever to medal in both of those events at the same Olympic Games. Pretty incredible.
He also competed in the Tokyo Olympics, where he placed ninth in the 5,000m and fifth in the 10,000m. Since then, he’s continued to level up. Just this year, he ran three indoor races back-to-back-to-back: the 1500m, the 3000m, and the 5000m. In the process, he broke two WORLD RECORDS—in the 3000m and the 5000m—two weeks in a row.
Grant runs for Nike and is now gearing up for the Grand Slam series. You’ll catch him in Kingston this weekend, followed by the Miami Slam and the Philadelphia Slam, all leading into USA’s and hopefully the World Championships later this season.
It was a blast to get to know Grant—not just as an elite runner, but as someone who grew up in a super athletic family. He ran for Stanford and has two siblings who also compete at a high level, though in soccer. I’ve wanted to have him on the show for a long time, and if you heard my interview with Kara Goucher and Des Linden earlier this year, you might remember me saying, “I really want to interview Grant Fisher.” Well, here we are!
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What we talked about:
4:20- Catching up on Grant’s training
5:50- Breaking World Records this indoor season
13:00- Grand Slam Track
36:25- His athletic family
47:00- Focusng on the long term in training starting in high school
53:50- Racing Cole Hocker
58:00- Double bronze medals at the Olympics
1:08:30- TraIning with Bowerman and deciding to leave the team
1:16:20- End of podcast questions
Show notes:
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| 0:00.0 | Hey friends, the spring season of marathoning and races has really picked up. And one of the races I am |
| 0:07.2 | going to be at this year that I'm so excited about is the IU Health mini marathon with the 500 |
| 0:12.2 | festival. I have an event that is Friday, May 2nd at Bottle Works Hotel with my friend |
| 0:19.2 | Ali Brettnacker. We've got Cameron Ballzer and Kim Conley, who are going to be on our panel there. |
| 0:24.3 | It's going to be a really fun event. |
| 0:26.0 | Tickets are, I think we have 20 tickets left of 100, so you still have a chance to grab those. |
| 0:31.4 | You can find the link to that up on my social media. |
| 0:34.3 | Lindsay Heinz 626 is my Instagram, and the link is in my profile. But if you have not run |
| 0:40.6 | this race, let me just tell you the indie mini is one of the best half marathons in the country. It is one of |
| 0:48.0 | the largest, if not the largest. I should know that. But you get to run on the iconic Indy 500 track, |
| 0:54.8 | which is such a cool experience. |
| 0:57.2 | Miles like six-ish to eight-ish is when you're on the track. |
| 1:00.7 | So you come off the track and then you get a come on home right downtown. |
| 1:04.2 | You run through neighborhoods in Indy downtown, |
| 1:07.5 | and you have really good course entertainment. |
| 1:10.2 | You have local bands, you have cloggers, |
| 1:13.7 | very Indiana entertainment that you cannot beat. There's more on course entertainment at this race |
| 1:19.8 | than any other race I've done. Seriously. It is just a blast and May and Indianapolis is the best. |
| 1:26.4 | To learn more, go to Indymini.com. I really hope I'll see you there. |
| 1:30.7 | I'll be announcing at the 5K championships that weekend. So I will look for you there as well. |
| 1:39.2 | It's going to be a great month of May in Indianapolis and I'll look forward to seeing you in Indymini.com. |
| 1:47.8 | This is a Sandy Boy Productions podcast. Hey everybody. Welcome to All Have Another podcast with Lindsay Hein. I'm your host Lindsay. |
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