Who is Olympian Grant Fisher? 5 things you need to know: age, parents and more

During the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris, Grant Visser became the first American man in more than a decade to win a medal in the 10,000-meter race, the longest race of the Olympics.

Fisher, who won the bronze medal, finished just 0.02 seconds behind Ethiopia’s Berihu Aregawi, who took silver. Ugandas Joshua Cheptegei, who won gold, broke his own record for the event. He previously improved on Ethiopia’s Kenenisa Bekele‘s 15-year-old record by more than six seconds at the 2020 Olympics.

Fisher’s close race with Berihu and Aregawi made him only the fourth American man to ever win a medal in the event and the first since Galen Rupp took silver in the 10,000 meters in 2012.

Keep scrolling for everything you need to know about Fisher:

How old is Grant Fisher?

The Olympian was born on April 22, 1997, which made him 27 at the time of the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris. Although he was born in Alberta, Canada, he grew up in Michigan and California.

Who are Grant Fisher’s parents?

Grant’s parents do Than And Sonja Visser, who are runners themselves. They met on the track at Arizona State University in 1986, according to a 2014 piece from the Michigan News Outlet MLive. Grants Team USA biography for the 2024 Olympics noted that his grandfather competed in the Pac-12, a conference for collegiate athletes.

“He has a good gene pool,” Dan told MLive in 2014 about Grant. “We are proud of him. His grandparents and his brother and sister also enjoyed athletic success [Mark and Hailey] are exceptional athletes.” Grant’s brother, Mark, plays professional soccer for Toronto FC II.

Where did Grant Fisher go to college?

The athlete studied at Stanford University from 2015 to 2019. He competed on the school’s track and field team and studied electrical engineering.

Will Grant Fisher compete in the Olympics before 2024?

Grant previously competed at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo, where he finished fifth in the 10,000 meters.

Does Grant Fisher have a girlfriend?

Grant met girlfriend Sarah Walker when they were both runners at Stanford. In July 2024, Walker told Park City, Utah Park record which she had ‘never seen [Grant] happier” as he prepared for the Paris Olympics. The outlet reported that Walker would cheer on Grant at the Olympics and then spend extra time with him in Europe before heading to Boston to pursue a degree in human factors at Tufts University.

“The Grant you meet now is the same Grant I met in college,” Walker said of Fisher.