Olivier Irabaruta

Olivier Irabaruta is the kind of athlete medal tables quietly erase, and that's exactly why he interests me. Born in Muramvya in Burundi's Gitega Province, he ran the 5000m at London 2012 and both the 5000m and 10,000m at Rio 2016, never reaching a final. But carrying a small Central African nation's flag onto the Olympic track twice is its own achievement, one that has little to do with finishing position. That he's also a musician rounds him out into someone more textured than a results sheet. I value the simple act of arriving on the world stage, and he did it more than once.

Name (English)

Olivier Irabaruta

Name (Japanese)

オリヴィエ・イラバルタ

Reading

おりゔぃえ・いらばるた

Born

August 25, 1990 (age 35)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Virgo / Horse

Origin

Muramvya, Gitega Province, Burundi

Height

171 cm

Occupation

athletics competitor / musician / long-distance runner

Motto

Private

• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%AA%E3%83%AA%E3%83%B4%E3%82%A3%E3%82%A8%E3%83%BB%E3%82%A4%E3%83%A9%E3%83%90%E3%83%AB%E3%82%BF

Tags

• Gitega Province
• athletics competitor
• musician
• long-distance runner

Last updated

2026-06-02

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.