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| Born | 31 August 2004 | ||||||||||||||
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| Country | US | ||||||||||||||
| Sport | Athletics | ||||||||||||||
Event(s) | Middle-distance running, Long-distance running, Cross Country running | ||||||||||||||
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| Personal best(s) | 1500m: 3:33.38 (Raleigh, 2025) Mile: 3:54.59 (Cork, 2025) 3000m: 7:34.00 (Boston, 2026) 5000m: 13:05.21 (Boston, 2025) | ||||||||||||||
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Marco Langon (born 31 August 2004) is an America middle-, long-distance and cross country runner. Competing as part of the junior team, he won a bronze medal at the 2023 World Athletics Cross Country Championships. [1]
From New Jersey, he attended Bridgewater-Raritan. In October 2021, he ran a cross country course record at the Skyland Conference Championships at Phillipsburg. [2] He was mentored as a youngster by athletics coach Rob DeFillipis. [3]
Langon was selected for the American U20 Cross Country team to compete in the 2023 World Athletics Cross Country Championships U20 men's race in Bathurst, New South Wales, on February 18, 2023. Landon finished 19th in the championship, the second-fastest American after Leo Young, helping the US team to a bronze medal finish with a total of 81 points. [4]
Competing for Villanova University, on 27 March 2025, Langon set a new personal best with 3:33.38 for the 1500 metres at the Raleigh Relays, which moved him to second on the all-time list in the NCAA. The following month, he signed a name, image and likeness (NIL) contract with Diadora. [5] [6] [7] He placed third behind Brian Musau and Habtom Samuel on the closing straight of the 5000 metres at the 2025 NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships in Eugene, Oregon, in June 2025, in 13:21.17 with less than a second between all three at the finish. [8] [9] In July, he ran a personal best in the mile run of 3:54.59 whilst racing in Cork, Ireland. [10]
Langon ran a 5000 metres personal best of 13:05.21 on 6 December 2025 in Boston, Massachusetts, finishing alongside Habtom Samuel, who was credited with the win by thousandths of a second. [11] [12] At the New Balance Indoor Grand Prix on 24 January 2026 in Boston, Langon ran an indoors 3000 metres personal best of 7:34.56 to move to fourth on the all-time collegiate performer list. [13] He lowered that mark to 7:34.00 on 13 February in Boston at the BU Valentine Classic. [14]