Patrick Dever

Dever attended and competed for the University of Tulsa for two years while working on his master's degree in accounting. He left Tulsa as a two time All-American in both cross country and track and field. On June 9, 2021, Dever won the NCAA national championship 10,000m in a meet record of 27:41.87, narrowly edging out Conner Mantz, and Abdihamid Nur by less than a second.^[1]

On October 25, 2021, Dever announced via an Instagram post that he has signed a professional running contract with Puma.^[2] Dever trains with Puma Elite under coach Alistair Cragg.^[3]

He ran a personal best in the 10,000 metres of 27:08.81 in San Juan Capistrano, California in March 2024 to move to second on the UK all-time list.^[4] After becoming the 2024 British champion (by finishing as the highest placed British athlete at the night of the 10,000 PB's), Dever was subsequently named in the Great Britain team for the 2024 Summer Olympics, where he failed to make it to the final of the 5000m.^[5][6]

In January 2025, he moved to fourth on the UK half-marathon all-time list after his fifth place finish in Texas at the Houston half marathon in a time of 60:11.^[7] He finished second overall at the Boston 5k road race in Boston, Massachusetts on 19 April 2025 in a time of 13:35.^[8]

On 2 November 2025, Dever finished fourth in the New York City Marathon in a time of two hours, eight minutes and 58 seconds.^[9] He was later upgraded to bronze due to a doping ban against the original third-place finisher, Albert Korir.^[10]

He is from Preston, Lancashire.^[11]

Taken from World Athletics profile.^[12]

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Personal Records