Darvis Patton

What stays with me about Darvis Patton isn't a single medal but his durability. Sprinting is a brutal, fractions-of-a-second business, yet he stuck around long enough to make three Olympic teams and four World Championships, claiming two US titles and a 2003 World silver along the way. That kind of longevity in an event where careers can vanish overnight tells me far more about him than any one race. I also like that he climbed from a community college program rather than a glamorous pipeline. "Doc" reads to me as a steady, unglamorous professional, and those are often the athletes I respect most.

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Name (English)

Darvis Patton

Name (Japanese)

ダービス・パットン

Reading

だーびす・ぱっとん

Born

December 4, 1977 (age 48)

Origin

Dallas, Texas, United States

Height

183 cm

Occupation

sprinter / athletics competitor

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Sagittarius / Snake

High school

Lake Highlands High School

University

Garden City Community College

• Official sitehttp://docpatton.com/
• Xhttps://x.com/doc_patton
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darvis%20Patton
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%80%E3%83%BC%E3%83%93%E3%82%B9%E3%83%BB%E3%83%91%E3%83%83%E3%83%88%E3%83%B3
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q386351

Tags

• Texas
• sprinter
• athletics competitor

Last updated

November 2, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.