Patrick Ivuti
{{short description|Kenyan long-distance runner}}
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| name = Patrick Mutuku Ivuti
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| caption = The final 200 meters of the 2007 Chicago Marathon was a shoulder to shoulder race between Ivuti (right) Jaouad Gharib (left)
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1978|6|30|df=yes}}
| birth_place = Tala, Machakos, Kenya
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| sport = Long-distance running
| event = Marathon
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Patrick Mukutu Ivuti (born June 30, 1978) is a Kenyan long distance athlete, who currently resides in Nairobi, Kenya. A two-time silver medallist at the IAAF World Cross Country Championships, he made his marathon debut in 2005 and had his first major victory at the Chicago Marathon in 2007. He had back-to-back wins at the Honolulu Marathon in 2008–2009 and was the 2009 winner of the Prague Marathon.
Biography
Ivuti has competed several times at the IAAF World Cross Country Championships, finishing second in 1999 behind Paul Tergat and runner-up again in 2003 when the race was won by Kenenisa Bekele. He also won the IAAF's Belfast International Cross Country meeting in 2000. However, he was plagued by injuries during much of the early part of this decade.{{cite web|url=http://www.iaaf.org/news/news/ivuti-heads-line-up-for-kenyan-armed-forces-c|title=Ivuti heads line-up for Kenyan Armed Forces cross|access-date=8 May 2016|date=16 January 2004|publisher=IAAF}} He also competed at the 2000 Summer Olympics and finished fourth in the 10,000 metres.{{cite Sports-Reference |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/iv/patrick-ivuti-1.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200418025239/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/iv/patrick-ivuti-1.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=18 April 2020 |title=Patrick Ivuti Olympic Results |accessdate=18 November 2017}} He was a two-time winner of the Almond Blossom Cross Country during this period.Civai, Franco (9 March 2009). [https://www.arrs.run/HP_AlmondXC.htm Amendoeiras em Flor (Almond Blossom) 10 km and 6 km]. Association of Road Racing Statisticians. Retrieved 10 March 2010.
Ivuti made his debut over the marathon distance at the 2005 Chicago Marathon.{{cite web|url=http://www.chicagomarathon.com/CMS400Min/Chicago_Marathon/press_center/index.aspx?id=2703|access-date=7 October 2007|publisher=LaSalle Bank Chicago Marathon|title=Patrick Ivuti|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071011025334/http://chicagomarathon.com/CMS400Min/Chicago_Marathon/press_center/index.aspx?id=2703|archive-date=11 October 2007}} He has broken the hour mark several times since running a time of 59:31 in Lisbon 2000.{{cite web|url=http://www.iaaf.org/athletes/athlete%3D55731/|access-date=9 October 2007|publisher=IAAF|title=Biography: Patrick IVUTI}} He set his new half marathon personal record of 59:27 at the Rotterdam Half Marathon on September 9, 2007. He won the Prague International Half Marathon with a course record 1:01 on March 24, 2007, in Prague, Czech Republic.{{cite web|date=26 March 2007|url=http://my.opera.com/hotel-prague/blog/winner-of-pragues-half-marathon-2007-is-patrick-m-ivuti-from-kenya|title=Winner of Prague's Half Marathon 2007 is Patrick M. Ivuti from Kenya|access-date=10 September 2007|website=my.opera.com}}
He won the Chicago Marathon held on October 7, 2007, with a time of 2:11:11 hours.{{cite news|publisher=IAAF |date=7 October 2007 |url=http://www.iaaf.org/news/kind=2/newsid=41990.html |title=Ivuti and Adere clinch Chicago Marathon victories with dramatic sprints |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110605115719/http://www.iaaf.org/news/kind=2/newsid=41990.html |archive-date=5 June 2011 |url-status=dead }} The race was the closest Chicago Marathon ever and a photo finish culmination of a shoulder to shoulder final 300 meter stretch run with Jaouad Gharib down Columbus Drive on a day of record-setting {{convert|88|°F|°C}} temperatures.{{cite web|url=https://www.espn.com/espn/wire?section=trackandfield&id=3052965|title=Patrick Ivuti of Kenya wins Chicago Marathon in photo finish|access-date=8 May 2016|agency=Associated Press|publisher=ESPN|date=7 October 2007}}{{cite web|url=http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2007/track_field/wires/10/07/2080.ap.run.chicago.marathon.1st.ld.writethru.0377/index.html|title=Kenyan Patrick Ivuti and Ethiopian Berhane Adere win muggy Chicago Marathon|access-date=10 October 2007|date=7 October 2007|agency=CNN|work=Sports Illustrated}}{{dead link|date=September 2024|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}
He could not defend Chicago marathon title in 2008 due to injury. In December 2008 Ivuti won the Honolulu Marathon.{{cite news|publisher=IAAF|date=15 December 2008|url=http://www.iaaf.org/news/news/ivuti-shimahara-battle-heavy-rains-to-take-ho|title=Ivuti & Shimahara battle heavy rains to take Honolulu titles|access-date=8 May 2016}} In May 2009 he won the Prague Marathon and set a new race record. He also repeated the Honolulu Marathon victory. He had a disappointing run in Prague in 2010, coming nineteenth,[http://marathoninfo.free.fr/athletes/kenya/ivuti_patrick.htm Ivuti, Patrick]. Marathon Info. Retrieved 18 April 2011. but he rebounded at the 2011 Vienna City Marathon by recording his third career sub-2:10 time to take second place behind John Kiprotich.{{cite news|url= http://www.iaaf.org/news/news/kiprotich-and-tola-the-surprise-winners-in-vi|title=Kiprotich and Tola the surprise winners in Vienna, Gebrselassie cruises 1:00:18 in the Half Marathon|publisher=IAAF|date=17 April 2011|access-date=8 May 2016}} He returned to Honolulu but was beaten to the title by Nicholas Chelimo by a margin of three seconds.{{cite news|last=Monti|first=David|date=12 December 2011|url= http://www.iaaf.org/news/newsid=63158.html|archive-url= https://archive.today/20120803002256/http://www.iaaf.org/news/newsid=63158.html|url-status= dead|archive-date= 3 August 2012|title=Thrilling finishes in Honolulu|publisher=IAAF|access-date=12 December 2011}}
Ivuti is married and his wife Marietta is sister of Jimmy Muindi, also a Kenyan marathon runner.{{cite news|publisher=IAAF|date=12 December 2008|url=http://www.iaaf.org/news/news/inseparable-jimmy-muindi-and-the-honolulu-mar|title=Inseparable! Jimmy Muindi and the Honolulu Marathon|access-date=8 May 2016}}
Achievements
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| colspan="6"|Representing {{KEN}} |
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| 2007
|bgcolor="gold" | 1st |Marathon |2:11:11 |
| 2008
|bgcolor="gold" | 1st |Marathon |2:14:35 |
| rowspan=2|2009
|bgcolor="gold" | 1st |Marathon |2:07:48 |
| Honolulu Marathon
|bgcolor="gold" | 1st |Marathon |2:12:14 |
References
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External links
- {{World Athletics}}
- [http://marathoninfo.free.fr/athletes/kenya/ivuti_patrick.htm Marathoninfo profile]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20120222171511/http://www.rosassociati.com/public/images/atleti/Ivuti%20Patrick%20Mutuku.pdf Rosa & Associati profile]
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Category:Chicago Marathon male winners
Category:Kenyan male marathon runners
Category:Kenyan male long-distance runners
Category:People from Machakos County
Category:Kenyan male cross country runners
Category:Athletes (track and field) at the 2000 Summer Olympics
Category:Olympic athletes for Kenya