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Darvis "Doc" Darell Patton (born December 4, 1977) is a retired
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athlete who competed in
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events. He is a two-time US Champion in the
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and won the silver medal in the event at the 2003 World Championships. He is a three-time Olympian and a four-time participant at the
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. Patton has had much success with the American
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team, being a world gold medallist in 2003 and 2007, as well as an Olympic silver medallist (
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). He has also had misfortune in the relay, having been involved in the American team's disqualification at the 2008 Summer Olympics, the 2009 World Championships, and the 2011 World Championships. A multi-talented athlete in the horizontal jumps and sprints, he initially focused on the 200 m but, after missing 2005 and 2006 due to injury, he switched to the
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. He won the 100 m silver medal at the
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and reached the finals of the event at the
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and the 2009 World Championships. He has broken the
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and his personal record of 9.89 seconds places him within the top-ten fastest Americans in the event. He also has bests of 20.03 for the 200 m, 8.12 m for the
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, and 6.50 seconds for the
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(a masters record for over-35 runners).


Career


Early career and college

Born in
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, the son of William Johnson and Dorrise Patton, Darvis Patton was a very versatile athlete from a young age and he competed in the
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,
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and
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events at
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and
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days. At the
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in 1998 he won the long jump, was runner-up in the triple jump and placed fourth in the
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.Darvis Patton
Tilastopaja. Retrieved on 2013-04-02.
He graduated from
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that year and won an
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at
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. While there he began to focus more on the
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and 200 m under the coaching of Monte Stratton. He was a finalist at both those distances at the 2000
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. He ended the year with personal records of 6.64 seconds for the
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, 10.22 for the 100 m, 20.29 for the 200 m and for the long jump.Darvis Patton
IAAF. Retrieved on 2013-04-02.
He was also a semi-finalist in the 200 m at the 2000 United States Olympic Trials. In his second year of competition at Texas Christian he set lifetime indoor bests of 20.73 for the 200 m and for the long jump. He was a finalist in both events at the
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. He improved outdoors too, setting personal records of 10.16 seconds for the 100 m and for the long jump in
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. The 2001 NCAA Outdoor Championships saw him earn four
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n honours in one meet: he was sixth in the 100 m, fourth in the long jump, third in the 200 m and won the
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with the
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. He began to establish himself nationally at that year's
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, where he came fourth in the 200 m as well as seventh in the long jump. Patton was later upgraded to third in the 200 m after
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was banned for doping.


First World and Olympic medals

He had his first successes as a senior in 2002 when he was runner up in the 200 m at both the
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and Outdoor US Championships.Darvis Patton Biography
.
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The retrospective disqualification of Ramon Clay meant he was the American outdoor 200 m champion that year. There were no global track championships that year so he mainly competed on the international circuit. He won the 200 m races in
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and
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and was runner-up at the
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and
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meets. He improved his 200 m best to 20.12 seconds in
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. The following season saw him reach the global podium for the first time: he became the national champion in the 200 m and went on to win the
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in that event at the
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behind teammate
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. He also won a
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as part of the American men's 4 × 100 m relay team including Capel,
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and J. J. Johnson. Moving entirely away from the long jump, Patton's sprinting times all improved that year: he had a personal record of 6.58 seconds in the 60 m, ran ten seconds flat at the
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meeting and ran 20.03 in the World Championships 200 m semi-finals. On the circuit he was runner-up at the
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and
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200 m races and placed fourth at the
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. After a fourth-place finish in the 200 m at the 2004 US Olympic Trials, he was nominated as the substitute for the 4 × 100 m relay at the
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. Patton helped the American team ease through the heats, recording a time of 38.02 seconds. He was substituted for the newly crowned 100 m Olympic champion
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for the final race, but the move backfired for the team as they finished a little slower (38.08) and had to settle for the silver medal behind Great Britain – who they had easily beaten in the heats. Patton's 2005 and 2006 seasons were wrecked by significant groin and hip injuries and he only returned to major competitions in 2007.


Return from injury

Patton returned to action and focused on the shorter sprint distance that year. He finished eighth in the 100 m final at the 2007 US Championships and withdrew from the 200 m competition. Based on his performance, he was selected to represent the United States at the
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. He finished second in the 100 m behind
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and anchored the relay team to a
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. He was chosen as part of the
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for the 2007 World Championships and this time made the final after qualifying. The American team (with
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,
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, and Leroy Dixon) became the world champions in a world-leading time of 37.78 seconds, fending off the
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n challengers who set a national record. At the 2008 United States Olympic Trials, Patton achieved his lifetime best performance in the 100 m, running 9.89 seconds in the quarter-finals. He went even quicker in the wind-assisted (+3.1 m/s) final, clocking 9.84 seconds, and came in third place behind Tyson Gay and
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. He broke the
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legally for the second time at the
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meet in Monaco, placing second behind
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in 9.98 seconds. During the
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in
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he was the slowest qualifier for the 100 m final. In the final itself he ran 10.03 seconds and was again the slowest and thus the eighth placed athlete. Together with Rodney Martin,
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and Tyson Gay he also competed at the 4 × 100 m relay, but they did not finish due to a mistake in the baton exchange between Patton and Gay and they were eliminated. The following year Patton came second to Michael Rodgers in a close 100 m race at the 2009 US championships in June, running a windy 9.92 seconds. This won him a place on the American team for the
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. Prior to the event, he was runner-up in Monaco and in
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– running a wind-assisted 9.95 seconds behind Tyson Gay at the latter. He managed to reach the final of the men's 100 meters after scoring a season's best of 9.98 in the semi-finals. He performed poorly in the final however, finishing last with a slow time of 10.34 seconds due to an injury. The hopes of the American men's relay team were again dashed by an illegal baton exchange, this time between Patton and
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. Patton ended his season on a high: he ran a series of sub-10 runs including 9.95 for third at the Weltklasse, 9.94 to win the
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, and a personal record-equalling run of 9.89 seconds for third at the
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, behind Tyson Gay and
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. He also placed third in the 100 m at the Memorial Van Damme and the
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.


Second Olympic medal

Patton's 2010 season was brought to an end in May due to another injury. He returned in 2011 and began racing more frequently in the 200 m. At the
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he was sixth in the 100 m but managed second place to Walter Dix in the 200 m. The
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was one of his less successful global outings. He was eliminated in the 200 m semi-finals and in the relay final he clashed with Britain's
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and failed to pass the baton successfully. He had season's bests of 9.94 seconds for the 100 m and 20.25 seconds for the 200 m. The 2012 United States Olympic Trials he placed fifth in both the 100 m and 200 m. Although he had failed to gain an individual spot, he was chosen for the relay team. At the
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he ran as a substitute runner in the qualifiers but even the weaker American team of
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, Patton,
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, and
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broke the national record of 37.38 seconds. The American team for the final (bringing in Tyson Gay and Ryan Bailey) improved that record further to 37.04 seconds but was still second behind the world record-breaking Jamaican team. Patton received his second Olympic
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in the relay as a result. He began 2013 with quick times, running 6.50 for the 60 m (a world record for over-35 athletes) and a wind-aided 100 m time of 9.75 seconds.


USATF Athlete's Advisory Committee & Board of Directors

Patto
announced his retirement
in 2013 on Instagram and went on to pursue coaching. Before hanging up his spikes, Patton served as the Men's Sprints Event Leader on the USATF Athlete's Advisory Committee. In this role, he advocated for elite sprint athletes and was the primary point of contact for competition issues, questions regarding tier privileges, benefits, and provided the men's constituency with updates on competition site selections and changes to USATF rules and regulations. Thereafter, the veteran sprinter's peers elected him to a four-year term as a member of the USATF Board of Directors, again representing the Athlete's Advisory Committee. There, he reviewed event constituent budgets as member of the budget committee to ensure efficient, appropriate use and allocation of funds in accordance with USATF policy. He also helped ensure athletes in all track and field disciplines had access to unified representation in various aspects of USATF, including staff selections, drug testing and competition rules.


Coaching

In 2015, Darvis served as th
assistant sprint and hurdles coach
for the USA Track and Field delegation for the IAAF World Relay Championship and NACAC Senior Championship relay teams, bringing home ten medals in the process and an additional four medals from Penn Relays. He also served as th
head track coach
at All Saints Episcopal School in Fort Worth from 2019 to 2022, where the program broke school records in the high jump, 4x100 meter race, placed fourth in the 2015 state championship – the highest place finish in the school's 70-year history – and produced the school's first state champion in the men's 100 m dash. Patton joined th
Texas Wesleyan University staff
in March 2022 as th
assistant track and field coach
where he specializes in short sprints and jumps. In his first two years, Patton helped lead the men's and women's track team to thei
first conference titles
in school history and produced Texas Wesleyan's first national track and field champion in the 400 m

an
110 m hurdles
In 2023, the United States Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association named Darvis Patton the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics Assistan
Coach of the Year
for Women's Outdoor Track & Field in the South Central Region. He was promoted to associate head coach for the Texas Wesleyan track and field program in 2024.


Personal life

He and his wife Crystal have a daughter, Dakota, and son, Darvis II. He is a proud former member of
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and serves as a youth mentor.Doc Patton Biography
Doc Patton. Retrieved on 2013-04-02.


Personal bests

*All information taken from IAAF profile.


Competition record


References


External links

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