Darvis Patton

Darvis Patton
Darvis Patton (2nd from left) with the 2007 world championship relay
Full name	Darvis Darell Patton
nation	United States
birthday	4th December 1977
place of birth	Dallas
size	183 cm
Weight	75 kg
Career
discipline	sprint
Best performance	9.89 s ( 100 m ) 20.03 s ( 200 m )
status	resigned
End of career	2013
Medal table
Olympic games 0 × 2 × 0 × World championships 2 × 1 × 0 × Pan American Games 0 × 1 × 1 ×
Olympic games silver Athens 2004 4 × 100 m silver London 2012 4 × 100 m  World championships gold Paris 2003 4 × 100 m silver Paris 2003 200 m gold Gothenburg 2007 4 × 100 m  Pan American Games silver Rio de Janeiro 2007 100 m bronze Rio de Janeiro 2007 4 × 100 m

Darvis Darell Patton (born December 4, 1977 in Dallas ) is a retired American athlete .

Darvis was a very versatile track and field athlete in his youth. He competed in long jump and high jump while in high school and college . However, he later focused on the sprint .

Patton celebrated the greatest successes of his career to date at the 2003 World Championships in Paris / Saint-Denis . As a member of the US 4 x 100 meter relay , he was world champion together with John Capel , Bernard Williams and Joshua J. Johnson . In the race over 200 meters Patton was narrowly defeated by his teammate John Capel. With a time of 20.31 s, Patton was only a hundredth of a second behind Capel and won silver. Used in the heats, he received a silver medal at the 2004 Olympic Games with the 4 x 100 meter relay.

Injuries plagued him for the next two years. In 2007 things went up again: at the Pan-American Games in Rio de Janeiro he won silver in the 100-meter run , at the 2007 World Championships he won the gold medal in the USA's 4-by-100-meter relay. In 2008 he finished eighth over 100 meters at the Beijing Olympics .

Another Olympic silver medal with the relay was added in 2012 in London .

Darvis Patton had a competition weight of 75 kg with a height of 1.83 m. He ended his career in 2013.

Personal best

• 100 m: 9.89 s (+ 1.6 m / s), June 28, 2008, Eugene
• 200 m: 20.03 s (+ 0.6 m / s), August 28, 2003, Paris
• Long jump: 8.12 m (+ 0.1 m / s), March 31, 2001, Arlington

Web links

Commons : Darvis Patton  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Darvis Patton in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Darvis Patton in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Athlete portrait at USA Track & Field

Individual evidence

1. ↑ US sprinter Darvis Patton retires ESPN, November 19, 2013, accessed October 9, 2015.