Eduardo Buenavista

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Eduardo Buenavista (born 13 October 1978 in General Santos City) is a Filipino long-distance runner and two-time Olympian. He holds the Philippine record for multiple long distance events.

His best marathon time is 2:18:44 hours. He also holds the Philippine 5000 metres record of 13 minutes, 58 seconds^{[citation needed]}, and performed the 10,000 metres in 29:02.36 minutes.^{[citation needed]}

"Vertek", as monickered by his friends and the media, finished 67th in the 2004 Athens Olympic marathon. He was a silver medallist in the recent 23rd Southeast Asian Games in the 10,000m run. He was the putative winner of the gold medal in the 5000m event, but due to unintentional physical contact with a Thai runner, he was denied the award. He has also won many road races in the Philippines, distance races on previous South East Asian Games and the Adidas King of the Road in South Korea.

[edit] Personal Best

3000 Metres 8:17.14 min. (Manila 26 05 2002)

5000 Metres 13:58.43 min. (Busan 10 10 2002)

10,000 Metres 29:02.36 min. (Busan 07 10 2002)

Half Marathon 1:03:42 hrs. (Incheon 27 03 2005)

Marathon 2:18:44 hrs. (Oita 01 02 2004)

3000 Metres(SC) 8:40.77 min. (Kuala Lumpur 12 09 2001)

[edit] External link

• IAAF profile for Eduardo Buenavista