Henry Marsh (runner)

On race day for the 3,000 meter steeplechase finals, Marsh finished fourth (losing out on the bronze medal to teammate Brian Diemer by only 0.19 seconds), then collapsed to the track and was carried out of the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum on a gurney.

Marsh won with 8:34:74 in his last 3,000 meter steeplechase race in the United States for the Prefontaine Classic at Hayward Field in Eugene, Oregon, coming from behind, passing Kregg Einspahr at the final hurdle for the win, before heading to Seoul, South Korea for the Olympics.

[19] Marsh won a silver medal in the 3,000-meter steeplechase at the 1986 Goodwill Games in Moscow, Soviet Union.

In 1981, he originally won, but was disqualified for failing to clear the penultimate water jump at the 1981 IAAF World Cup in Rome, Italy.

In 1985, he won a silver medal at the 1985 IAAF World Cup in Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia.

Marsh was the American champion in the steeplechase nine times (1978, 1979, 1981–1987) and in 1983 received the Glenn Cunningham Award as the best distance runner in America.

Marsh had stopped running mile races and focused on the 3,000-meter steeplechase at BYU; this is why it was so late in his running/racing career that he finally set out to do this elite feat.

[6] In March 1986, Marsh was featured in "16 Days of Glory", a documentary about the 1984 Summer Olympics, in Los Angeles, California.

[3] When Kenneth Rooks (a fellow BYU Cougar and 3,000-meter steeplechaser), fell on the 8th of July, 2023, in Eugene, Oregon, he told himself to go into "Henry Marsh mode".

[28] He has also given free nutrition and fitness seminars together with the director of the Human Performance Research Center at Brigham Young University, Dr. A. Garth Fisher.

[34] In 2008, the Sacramento Bee noted that Marsh was a major financial supporter (two donations totalling $90,000) of Proposition 8, a California ballot initiative to eliminate same-sex marriage rights.