This was the first time a U.S. man had medaled olympics.olympic_medal_honor the Olympic 10,000 m in 48 years , the last medal being Billy Mills 's gold in the 1964 Olympics .

In all of its history , the only case in which a Guyanese athlete has medaled olympics.olympic_medal_honor the Olympics was when Michael Anthony won a bronze medal at the 1980 Summer Olympics in the Soviet Union .