Patrick Makau Musyoki

Patrick Makau Musyoki
Patrick Makau Musyoki at the Berlin Marathon 2011
nation	Kenya
birthday	2nd March 1985 (age 35)
place of birth	Manyanzwani , Kenya
Career
Best performance	58:52 h (half marathon) 2:03:38 h (marathon)
End of career	2018
Medal table
World championships 0 × 2 × 0 ×
World championships silver Udine 2007 half marathon silver Rio de Janeiro 2008 half marathon
last change: July 14, 2018

Patrick Makau Musyoki (born March 2, 1985 in Manyanzwani, Kenya ) is a former Kenyan long-distance runner who specialized in road running. From 2011 to 2013 he held the world record in marathon running (2:03:38 h, set at the Berlin Marathon 2011).

Career

Makau grew up with six siblings; his parents were small farmers. He attended Unyuani Primary School until 1999 and then the Kyeni Academy, where he seriously started running in 2001. Over the next two years he qualified for the national school championships and was discovered by Jimmy Muindi , who took him on after Makau graduated from high school. While Makau initially failed to meet the demands of his mentor, he made his breakthrough in 2005 with two victories in road races in Tanzania and Kenya.

In 2006 he competed outside of Africa for the first time and won the Tarsus half marathon in 1:02:42 h, although he missed the starting shot due to his inexperience and therefore started the race 100 m behind. During this race he met the manager Ian Ladbrooke, who looked after him for the next few years. A month later he won the 25 km from Berlin in 1:14:08 h. He was nominated for the road running world championships in Debrecen (20 km), in which he came in 26th place.

In 2007 he finished second in the RAK half marathon in 59:13 minutes behind Samuel Kamau Wanjiru , who set a world record with 58:53 minutes. He then won the Berlin half marathon in 58:56 minutes and established himself behind Wanjiru and Haile Gebrselassie as the third fastest runner on the half marathon distance to date. Shortly afterwards he won the Würzburg Residence Run and again won the 25 km from Berlin, but missed the target world record with a time of 1:14:23 h due to the hot weather. After a second place in the Rotterdam half marathon in 59:19 minutes, he was also second in 59:02 minutes at the road running world championships in Udine over the half marathon distance and won gold with the Kenyan team.

In 2008 he won the RAK half marathon in 59:35 min and the CPC Loop The Hague in 1:00:08 h, repeated his victory in the Berlin half marathon with a time of exactly one hour and triumphed in the Rotterdam half marathon in 59:29 min . At the end of the season he again won individual silver and team gold at the World Half Marathon Championships in Rio de Janeiro .

In 2009 he won the RAK half marathon again and with a time of 58:52 minutes moved up to second place in the all-time best in the half marathon. He then made his debut on the marathon distance at the Rotterdam Marathon and finished fourth in 2:06:14 hours.

The following year he won the The Hague CPC Loop for the second time . He won the Rotterdam Marathon with the world's best time of 2:04:48 h and the Berlin Marathon in pouring rain with 2:05:08 h.

Patrick Makau Musyoki crossed the finish line at the 2011 Berlin Marathon

In 2011 he finished third in the London Marathon . At the Berlin Marathon he competed against the world record holder Haile Gebrselassie , whom he left behind at 27 km after increasing the pace . While the Ethiopian had to end the race early soon afterwards, Musyoki improved his old record by 21 seconds to 2:03:38 h.

On October 28, 2012, he won the BMW Marathon in Frankfurt am Main with a time of 2:06:12 h . He took the lead eight minutes before the finish and stayed well above his record time from 2011.

In 2014 and 2015 he won the Fukuoka Marathon in almost identical times of 2:08:22 h and 2:08:18 h. In 2016 he took part again and this time came second behind the Ethiopian Yemane Tsegay in a time of 2:08:57 h.

In September 2018, Makau announced his retirement from competitive sports due to persistent patellar tendon problems .

Patrick Makau Musyoki lives in Ngong with his wife, a daughter and two sons . He is looked after by the manager Zane Branson for Posso Sports .

The money he earned with his sporting successes he invested in apartment houses in Nairobi; he also works as a farmer and entrepreneur. The money for the first flight to Europe was loaned to him by his runner colleague Catherine, whom he married three years later.

Personal bests

• Half marathon : 58:52 min, February 20, 2009, Ras Al Khaimah
• Marathon : 2:03:38 h, September 25, 2011, Berlin

Web links

Commons : Patrick Makau Musyoki  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Patrick Makau Musyoki in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Athlete portrait on marathoninfo.free.fr

Individual evidence

1. ^ IAAF: Musyoki and Arusei retains Kenyan hold on Berlin 25km . May 7, 2006
2. ^ IAAF: Musyoki (58:56 min) and Johnson clocks (68:28) in the Berlin Half Marathon . April 1, 2007
3. ↑ IAAF: Kenyans Musyoki and Chepchirchir win Berlin 25k in high temperatures . May 6, 2007
4. ↑ Katrin Schulze: New name, old luck. In: Der Tagesspiegel . May 7, 2007, accessed December 15, 2010 . 
5. ^ IAAF: Kenya secures swift but exceptionally tight doubles at the Ras Al Khaimah Half Marathon . February 8, 2008
6. ↑ IAAF: Patrick Makau Musyoki and Pauline Wangui winners in City-Pier-City Half Marathon ( Memento of the original from February 2, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The  archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . March 15, 2008
7. ^ IAAF: Musyoki and Arusei victors in Berlin Half Marathon . April 6, 2008
8. ^ IAAF: Double Kenyan victory, as six go sub-60 in Rotterdam . September 14, 2008
9. ^ IAAF: Makau produces second fastest time ever, Tune clocks national record at RAK Half Marathon - updated . February 20, 2009
10. ^ IAAF: Makau and Wangui win again in The Hague . March 15, 2010
11. ↑ IAAF: Makau storms 2:04:48 in Rotterdam . April 11, 2010
12. ^ IAAF: Makau and Kebede triumph in rainy Berlin . September 26, 2010
13. ^ IAAF: Makau now the Marathon's man to beat . September 27, 2010
14. ↑ Leichtathletik.de: Patrick Makau runs a world record in Berlin . September 25, 2011
15. ↑ IAAF: Makau stuns with 2:03:38 Marathon World record in Berlin! September 25, 2011
16. ↑ Former Marathon World Record Holder Patrick Makau Retires From The Sport ( English ) letsrun.com. September 12, 2018. Retrieved September 23, 2018.
17. ↑ Athlete portrait on the Posso Sports website ( Memento of the original from August 3, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
18. ↑ All information from: “Running is a good job” , in: Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung April 22, 2012, page 20, interview with Michael Reinsch, quote: “I build apartment houses in Nairobi that I rent out. I mainly grow corn and coffee. I employ more than forty people on this. I want to build a school to enable the children to be educated. "