Steve Lacy (born 17 January 1956) is a two-time American Olympic athlete. He was born and raised in

McFarland, Wisconsin McFarland is a village in Dane County, Wisconsin, United States, situated on Lake Waubesa. As of the 2020 United States census, 2024 census, the village has a population of 9,597. A suburb of Madison, Wisconsin, Madison, it is part of the Madison ...

. He went to college at the

University of Wisconsin–Madison The University of Wisconsin–Madison (University of Wisconsin, Wisconsin, UW, UW–Madison, or simply Madison) is a public land-grant research university in Madison, Wisconsin, United States. It was founded in 1848 when Wisconsin achieved st ...

where he was the first UW runner to break the 4-minute mile.Wisconsin Track and Field
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American male long-distance runners Living people People from McFarland, Wisconsin Sportspeople from Dane County, Wisconsin Track and field athletes from Wisconsin Wisconsin Badgers men's track and field athletes 1956 births Olympic track and field athletes for the United States Athletes (track and field) at the 1984 Summer Olympics 20th-century American sportsmen NCAA Division I Indoor Track and Field Championships winners {{US-longdistance-athletics-bio-stub