Luc Krotwaar

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Luc Krotwaar
Luc Krotwaar running towards his seventh Dutch title at the 2007 Rotterdam Marathon
Luc Krotwaar running towards his seventh Dutch title at the 2007 Rotterdam Marathon
Full name Luc Krotwaar
Date of birth 25 January 1968 (1968-01-25) (age 40)
Place of birth Bergen op Zoom, Netherlands
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Height 1.75 m
Weight 60 kg
Personal best 800 metres – 1:49.3 (1988)
1500 metres – 3:41.58 (1988)
mile – 4:08.5 (1987)
3000 metres – 8:02.8 (1990)
5000 metres – 13:38.73 (2000)
10000 metres – 28:39.04 (2002)
10 km – 28:09 (2002)
10 miles – 47:18 (1998)
half marathon – 1:01.49 (2002)
marathon – 2:10.13 (2003)
Career  ?-present

Infobox last updated on: 5 May 2008.

Luc Krotwaar (born January 25, 1968 in Bergen op Zoom, Noord-Brabant) is a Dutch long-distance runner, who is nicknamed 'The White Kenyan'. In the spring of 2003 Krotwaar ran 2:19.42 in the Rotterdam Marathon and only eight days later 2:13.41 in the Utrecht marathon.

In the fall of 2003 he ran a personal best of 2:10.13 in Fukuoka. He qualified for the 2004 Summer Olympics, but eventually did not start. Krotwaar finished fifteenth at the 2005 World Championships marathon and fourth at 2:12:44 in the 2006 European Athletics Championships in Gothenburg. He finished second in the 2006 Posbankloop in Velp.

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