Birthday: 10/18/89 Mile PR: 3:51.34 (indoors) - 2013
Metric Mile (1500m) PR: 3:31.96 - 2012
High School: Broadneck HS
Hometown: Arnold, MD
College: University of Oregon '12
Current Residence: Eugene, OR
Team: Oregon Track Club
Personal website: www.matthewcentrowitz.com
Matthew Centrowitz earned a 4th place finish at the 2012 London Olympic Games, just missing a bronze medal by .04 seconds. He earned his first trip to the Olympics with a runner-up finish in the 1500 meters at the 2012 U.S. Olympic Trials in Eugene, Oregon. At the 105th Millrose Games in February 2012, Centrowitz won the NYRR Wanamaker Mile in 3:53.92 and became only the second runner in history to double back 7 1/2 months later in September to win the Fifth Avenue Mile in a personal best 3:52.4. In 2011, Centrowitz competed at the IAAF World Championships in Daegu, Korea earning a bronze medal in the 1500m (the first U.S. men's medal for the distance since 1987). He also won his first 1500m national title at the 2011 USA Outdoor Championships. At the University of Oregon, he was a 7-time NCAA All-American, winning the 2011 NCAA Outdoor 1500m title in 3:42.54.
Father Matt was a 1976 & 1980 Olympic team member at 1500 and 5000 meters respectively. Sister, Lauren, is also a national class Miler.
By Jon Hendershott, Track and Field News
Top-rated U.S. Miler Matthew Centrowitz is in his second full pro season, now training with Alberto Salazar’s elite group in Portland.
The 23-year-old Maryland native is the son of ’76 Olympian Matt Centrowitz, who also made the ’80 team and set a 5000...
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Multiple records topple in the Armory Saturday night as high school phenom Mary Cain betters her own U.S. record, while Lomong and O’Hare take the storied race into new terrain.
By Duncan Larkin, The Mile wire
NEW YORK – (February 16, 2013) – Under the bright lights and amidst the roaring of...
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By Barbara Huebner, NYRR News Service
Last year, New York Road Runners sponsored the men’s NYRR Wanamaker Mile for the first time. Matthew Centrowitz took charge to win his professional debut at the distance in 3:53.92.
On Saturday night, Centrowitz will return to the New Balance Track &...
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He'll shoot for win and sub-3:52 at the Millrose Games.
By Peter Gambaccini, Runner's World
Matthew Centrowitz, 23, won the Wanamaker Mile at the 2012 Millrose Games in 3:53.92. He returns to the Games on Saturday at the Armory in New York with Bernard Lagat’s Wanamaker record of 3:52.87 as...
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Wynne, Frazier high school Mile champions; NBIGP kick-off to the Bring Back the Mile Tour 2013
By Jim Gerweck, The Mile wire
BOSTON – (February 2, 2013) – When it comes to the Mile, the 2013 indoor track season has been thus far quite thrilling with Mary Cain’s U.S. high school record and...
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The Broadneck grad will be running again in the New York indoor track meet.
By D. Frank Smith, Broadneck Patch
The 106th Millrose Games in New York City's Armory is one of the largest indoor track meets in the country.
Broadneck's Olympic running sensation Matthew Centrowitz recently told ...
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By Barbara Huebner, NYRR News Service
On a Skype call to a New York Track Writers’ luncheon this afternoon, Matthew Centrowitz said that his recent workouts “have been faster than anything I could imagine” coming out of college.
He added that his father—two-time Olympian Matt Centrowitz, a...
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By Peter Gambaccini, Runner"s World
A match-up in the Mile between Galen Rupp and Matthew Centrowitz at Saturday’s UW Indoor Preview at Dempsey Indoor in Seattle is more intriguing and potentially competitive than it might at first seem. Yes, Centrowitz is the 2011 world championships 1500...
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By Peter Gambaccini, Runner's World
Matthew Centrowitz, 22, was the 2011 IAAF World Championships 1500 meter bronze medalist and placed fourth in the 1500 at the 2012 London Olympics. He set his 1500 meter personal best of 3:31.96 this summer. On Saturday, he won the Fifth Avenue Mile in New...
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At 32nd edition, more than 5,400 finishers in age group heats race the iconic distance down the famed thoroughfare
By Jim Gerweck, The Mile wire
NEW YORK – (September 22, 2012) – For years, Bernard Lagat has dominated Mile races on the indoor track of New York City, his eight consecutive...
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2012 U.S. Olympic silver medalist Leo Manzano and Olympic fourth-place finisher Matthew Centrowitz also highlight men’s field; women’s field features two-time race champion and U.S. Olympian Shannon Rowbury and World Championships 1500m silver medalist Hannah England of Great Britain; $30,000...
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By Scott Cacciola, The Wall Street Journal
After Bernard Lagat competes Saturday in the Fifth Avenue Mile, he plans to do something that would feel completely foreign to many elite runners: He will toss his sneakers in a closet and pig out for the next five weeks. No running. No sit-ups. No...
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By Barbara Huebner, New York Road Runners
Matthew Centrowitz set a huge personal best at Thursday’s Diamond League meeting in Lausanne, Switzerland, and said that he’s not done yet.
“I still have a lot of racing left in me,” he said here after coming on strong in the last half-lap of the 1500...
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By Peter Gambaccini, Runner's World
In an Athletissima meet in Lausanne, Switzerland in which Usain Bolt and Yohan Blake predictably won their separate sprints and Kenyans acquitted themselves for some of their London Olympic disappointments, let's give prominent play here to the most...
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By Jean Marbella, The Baltimore Sun
LONDON - If the Algerian runner had stayed disqualified. If a fellow American hadn't surged past him near the finish line. If he had run .05 of a second faster.
Matthew Centrowitz almost medaled in the 1500 meter race here Tuesday night, but for several...
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An Olympic medal eluded his dad in 1976. Today, Matthew Centrowitz aims to fulfill the family dream.
By John Brant, Runner's World
Several times a week, the most accomplished father-son duo in the history of middle-distance racing engages in a transcontinental telephone call, continuing a...
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Broadneck grad and son of an Olympian knows the meaning of running on the biggest stage
By Chris Korman, The Baltimore Sun
Matt Centrowitz Sr. does not recall ever sitting down with his son Matthew Centrowitz to regale him with tales of being an Olympian, or to explain the thrill and...
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By Amy Shipley, The Washington Post
Father and son laugh about it now. The father, in fact, seems to delight in recalling his son’s monumental misjudgment and subsequent collapse in his first Mile as a freshman at Broadneck High. The young Matthew Centrowitz boldly took the lead from the start...
Read More commentsBy Pat Graham, ESPN / AP Sports
Rising middle-distance runner Matthew Centrowitz is chasing his father's footsteps with a chance for everything to come full circle on Oregon's famed oval track.
It was at Hayward Field, nearly 36 years ago, that Matt Centrowitz -- a brash kid from New York...
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