Dathan Ritzenhein
Dathan Ritzenhein ( born December 30, 1982 in Grand Rapids, Michigan) is an American long distance runner.
Dathan Ritzenhein has a competition weight of 55 kg at a height of 1.70 m. He is married to the long-distance runner Kalin Toedebusch, with whom he has a daughter.
Career
He celebrated his first international success with the third place in the junior race at the World Cross Country Championships in 2001 in Ostend.
In 2004 he took part in the Olympic Games in Athens on 10,000 - meter race, but had to retire due to an injury the race. In 2005 he won among others the U.S. championships in cross-country running.
In 2006, he debuted at the New York City Marathon on the marathon distance. He finished in a time of 2:14:01 h eleventh place. In 2007 he won the Healthy Kidney 10K.
At the World Athletics Championships 2007 in Osaka, he finished ninth in the 10,000 -meter run. On November 3, 2007, he secured the U.S. elimination race for the 2008 Summer Olympic Games in a time of 2:11:07 hours in second place behind Ryan Hall a starting place in Beijing. There, he finished as the fastest American in a time of 2:11:59 h ninth place.
In 2009, he reached in the U.S. Half Marathon Championships in a personal best of 1:01:35 hours behind Mebrahtom Keflezighi second place. At the London Marathon, he presented 2:10:00 h also a personal best, finishing in eleventh place. At the World Athletics Championships in Berlin in 2009, he was the 10,000 m in another personal best of 27:22,28 min sixth. A little later he performed at an athletics meeting world-class Zurich with a time of 12:56,27 min a new continental record in the 5000 -meter run on. Another highlight of the season, he experienced in the World Half Marathon Championships in Birmingham, where he won the bronze medal in exactly 60 minutes and his previous best performance undercutting on this distance by more than one and a half minutes.
After 2011, he had to undergo an operation on his Achilles tendon, he could not qualify for the marathon, but for the 10,000 - meter race for the 2012 Olympics. There he was in 27:45,89 min 13 At Chicago Marathon 2012 he improved his personal best to 2:07:47 h and was the best non-African runners in ninth place.