Brian Sell

Brian Sell ( born April 11, 1978 in Altoona, Pennsylvania) is an American long- distance runner who specializes in the marathon.

For the first time he made the U.S. elimination race for the 2004 Summer Olympic Games attracted attention when he led for a long time, but broke at the end and fell back to twelfth place. At the Chicago Marathon 2004 he finished tenth in 2:13:18. In a marathon, the World Athletics Championships in Helsinki in 2005, he was ninth.

In 2006, he twice broke his personal record, first as fourth in the Boston Marathon with 2:10:55 and then sixth at the Chicago Marathon with 2:10:47.

In the elimination race for the 2008 Summer Olympic Games, which took place on the eve of the New York City Marathon in Central Park, he succeeded to Walk third behind Ryan Hall and Dathan Ritzenhein, a place in Beijing and thus the fourth-placed ex- world record holder Khalid Khannouchi to displace from the team.

Brian Sell has a competition weight of 64 kg at a height of 1.78 m. He is managed by the Hansons - Brooks Distance Project.