CENTROWITZ Matthew

United States of America
Athletics
18 Oct 1989
31
Male
BELTSVILLE, MD
 
United States of America
PORTLAND, OR
 
United States of America

Events and Medals

Discipline Event Rank Medal
ATH Athletics Men's 1500m  

Schedule

Change
Start Time Location Event Status
Olympic Stadium - Track
Men's 1500m Round 1 - Heat 2
Finished
Olympic Stadium - Track
Men's 1500m Semi-Final 2
Finished

Biographical Information

Highlights

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Olympic Games
YearLocation1500m
2016Rio de Janeiro, BRA1st (3:50.00)
2012London, GBR4th (3:35.17)

World Athletics Championships
YearLocation1500m
2019Doha, QAT8th (3:32.81)
2017London, GBRHeats (3:48.34)
2015Beijing, CHN8th (3:36.13)
2013Moscow, RUS2nd (3:36.78)
2011Daegu, KOR3rd (3:36.08)

Diamond League overview - Three best ranks per season and event since 2017
Year1500mMile
2019-1 x 6th
20181 x 7th, 1 x 10th-
20171 x 7th, 1 x 9th-

Diamond League - Ten best performances since 2020
RankYearEventLocationResult
62019MileStanford, CA, USA3:52.26
720181500mMonaco, MON3:31.77
720171500mLausanne, SUI3:34.83
920171500mMonaco, MON3:34.43
1020181500mRabat, MAR3:35.17


Legend
SF - Semifinal, QF - Quarterfinal, 1R - 1st Round, Qual. - Qualification, QR - Qualification Round, DNF - Did Not Finish, DNS - Did Not Start, DQ - Disqualified, NM - No Mark, [Relay athlete without time] - Did not run in final
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Centro (spikes.iaaf.org, 20 Mar 2016; oregonlive.com, 20 Jul 2019)
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Athlete
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Sociology - University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, USA
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Partner Shelby Houlihan
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English
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Bowerman Track Club [Portland, OR, USA]
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Jerry Schumacher [club], USA
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His father Matthew Sr. competed in the 1500m event at the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal and has coached athletics. His sister Lauren has represented Stanford University in the United States of America in middle distance running. His partner Shelby Houlihan has competed in middle distance running internationally, and placed 11th in the 5000m final at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. (SportsDeskOnline, 01 Aug 2019; diamondleague.com, 30 Jul 2015; Lauren Centrowitz Twitter profile, 14 Jun 2016; runnersworld.com, 01 Oct 2019; bbc.com, 21 Aug 2019; pamplinmedia.com, 05 Dec 2019)
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In 2019 he suffered ongoing hamstring and shin problems during the US indoor season. (letsrun.com, 02 Jul 2019; oregonlive.com, 19 Jul 2019; flotrack.org, 29 Jul 2019; oregonlive.com, 04 Oct 2019)

In 2017 he suffered a tear to his right adductor three weeks before the US national outdoor championships. He competed in the tournament after receiving a plasma injection and won silver in the 1500m. (letsrun.com, 02 Jul 2019; sbnation.com, 07 Aug 2017)

He missed the 2016 Prefontaine Classic in Eugene, OR, United States of America, as he was recovering from a stress reaction in his leg. (olympics.nbcsports.com, 27 May 2016)

In 2014 he missed most of the US indoor season with pericarditis, an inflammation of the sac surrounding the heart usually caused by a bacterial or viral infection. He returned for the 2014 outdoor season. (oregonlive.com, 18 Jun 2015)
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He played several sports growing up, and took up running during summer meets at middle school. He began to take the sport more seriously during his second year of high school. "I didn't even make varsity during my freshman year. It was fun and that's what it's really about in high school. I still keep in contact with a lot of the guys who were on my team, we're best friends. It's important to make it fun at a young age because you can get burnt out so easy." (runningtimes.com, 01 Jan 2007; Anne Arundel County Public Schools YouTube channel, 08 Mar 2017)
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He began aiming to compete at an elite level after receiving a sports scholarship at the University of Oregon. "Once I realised I had more of a future and more potential in athletics, it just made sense to put all my focus into that and see how far I could really go with the sport." (Anne Arundel County Public Schools YouTube channel, 08 Mar 2017)
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US middle distance runner Jim Ryun. (sbnation.com, 07 Aug 2017)
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His father. (news.nike.com, 01 Jan 2016)
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"I like to make every moment, every day count." (news.nike.com, 01 Jan 2016)
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In 2016 he received the Jesse Owens Male Athlete of the Year award from USA Track & Field. (bringbackthemile.com, 24 Jun 2018)

While competing for the University of Oregon in the United States of America he was a seven-time All-American. In 2009 he was named Track and Field Newcomer of the Year in the Pac-12 conference. (usatf.org, 30 Aug 2015)

General Interest

General
CLUB CHANGE
In 2019 he joined Bowerman Track Club in Portland, OR, United States of America, a group coached by Jerry Schumacher. He had previously trained in Portland with the Nike Oregon Project [NOP]. "I got as much as I needed out of the Nike Oregon Project program. Everyone gets to a point where it's time to kind of mix things up, and I felt like that's where I was in my career. I felt like had I been coming out of college right now, Bowerman would be like the Oregon Project that I joined in 2012. Just a bunch of 5k guys, 3k guys around my level that could pull me along in a lot of workouts. It just felt right, it felt comfortable. I've known Jerry over the years since we obviously were based in Portland. So it was an easy transition for me." (letsrun.com, 02 Jul 2019; sbnation.com, 07 Aug 2017; flotrack.org, 06 Oct 2019; oregonlive.com, 18 Jun 2015)

SUB-TWO HOUR MARATHON PACEMAKER
In 2019 he was part of the pacemaking team when Kenyan athlete Eliud Kipchoge ran the first ever sub-two hour marathon in Vienna, Austria. However, the result did not count as an official record because it was not run under race conditions. "[I was] just thinking how much of an honour it was to be one step in front of Kipchoge, a once-in-a-generation athlete." (ineos159challenge.com, 12 Oct 2019; letsrun.com, 12 Oct 2019)

TURNING PROFESSIONAL
He forewent his last year of National Collegiate Athletic Association [NCAA] eligibility at the University of Oregon to turn professional in November 2011. "I'd accomplished everything I wanted to accomplish at the University of Oregon. I figured this was the best decision." (runblogrun.com, 29 Nov 2011; Anne Arundel County Public Schools YouTube channel, 08 Mar 2017; runnersworld.com, 28 Jan 2012)

Legend
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Gold Medal Event
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Silver Medal Event
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Bronze Medal Event
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