Patrick Sang

Patrick Sang
nation	Kenya
birthday	11th April 1964 (age 56)
place of birth	Kapsisiywa , Kenya
job	Athletics coach
Career
discipline	Obstacle course
Best performance	8: 03.41 min
status	resigned
Medal table
Olympic games 0 × 1 × 0 × World championships 0 × 2 × 0 × Africa Games 1 × 0 × 0 × Universiade 1 × 0 × 0 ×
Olympic games silver Barcelona 1992 3000 m obstacle  World championships silver Tokyo 1991 3000 m obstacle silver Stuttgart 1993 3000 m obstacle  Africa Games gold Nairobi 1987 3000 m obstacle  Universiade gold Duisburg 1989 3000 m obstacle
last change: August 24, 1997

Patrick Sang (born April 11, 1964 in Kapsisiywa , Nandi County ) is a Kenyan track and field coach and former 3000 meter obstacle and long distance runner.

Life

Sang studied urban planning at the University of Texas at Austin from 1983 to 1986 , where he played for the Texas Longhorns university team in the NCAA .

Sang won silver medals in the 3,000-meter obstacle course from 1991 to 1993 in three consecutive years at major international events (World Championships 1991, Summer Olympics 1992 and World Championships 1993). He also won gold medals in his specialty at the Pan-African Games in Nairobi in 1987 and at the 1989 Summer Universiade in Duisburg. From 1999 he competed in road races for two years . In the half marathon he reached his best time in 1999 at the CPC Loop Den Haag and also won the Greifensee run in Uster that same year . He achieved his best result on the marathon distance with a ninth place in the Amsterdam Marathon .

Towards the end of his active career, he began to work as a trainer in 1997 and led his compatriot Bernard Barmasai to the world record in the obstacle course of 7: 55.72 minutes. In the same race at the ASV-Sportfest in Cologne, Sang achieved his personal best of 8: 03.41 minutes. From 2000 he worked for five years as a trainer for medium and long distance running at an IAAF training center in Nairobi. His most famous protégé is the marathon world record holder Eliud Kipchoge . In addition, he trained the multiple cross-country and half-marathon world champion Geoffrey Kipsang Kamworor , the marathon runner Emmanuel Kipchirchir Mutai and the Olympic marathon winner Stephen Kiprotich from Uganda.

Best times

• 3000 meter obstacle course - 8: 03.41 min (1997)
• Half marathon - 1:01:02 h (1999)
• Marathon - 2:14:03 h (1999)

Others

With a height of 1.80 m, Sang's competition weight was 65 kg.

Web links

• Patrick Sang in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Patrick Sang in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
• The Mastermind - Portrait in Spikes Magazine (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Patrick Sang the dream maker ( English ) NN Running Team. May 30, 2017. Retrieved September 17, 2018.
2. ↑ Jürg Wirz: Great coach, great man . The New Zurich Times. April 19, 2016. Retrieved September 17, 2018.