Charles R. Lawrence

Charles R. "Charlie" Lawrence (born March 24, 1995) is an American ultramarathon and marathon runner.

In January 2019, he signed a professional deal with Hansons-Brooks Running Club, and he trained for a year for the 2020 Olympic marathon trials.

While training, he worked as a ticket sales and development coordinator at Oakland University in Southeast Michigan.

He left Hansons-Brooks Running Club and moved to Boulder, Colorado to train with a coach named Tom Schwartz.

[6] Charlie Lawrence finished 61st in the United States Olympic Marathon Trials in February 2020.

[8] He beat the previous record of 4:50:08, which was set by Jim Walmsley at the HOKA One Project Carbon X event in California, by almost two minutes.