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{{Short description|Dutch sprinter (born 1984)}}
{{use dmy dates|date=July 2022}}
{{Infobox sportsperson
| name = Patrick van Luijk
| image = 20090821-WK2009-Patrick van Luijk.jpg
| image_size = 240px
| caption = Van Luijk in 2009
| full_name = Patrick Jermaine Herschel van Luijk
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1984|9|17|df=y}}
| birth_place = [[Spijkenisse]], Netherlands
| height = 1.89 m
| weight = 88 kg
| pb = [[100 metres|100 m]] - 10.25 (2008)<br/>[[200 metres|200 m]] - 20.47 (2012) 
| updated = 2 July 2012
| medaltemplates = 
{{MedalCompetition|[[European Athletics Championships|European Championships]]}}
{{MedalGold|[[2012 European Athletics Championships|2012 Helsinki]]|[[2012 European Athletics Championships – Men's 4 × 100 metres relay|4 × 100 m relay]]}}
{{MedalSilver|[[2012 European Athletics Championships|2012 Helsinki]]|[[2012 European Athletics Championships – Men's 200 metres|200&nbsp;m]]}}
}}

'''Patrick Jermaine Herschel van Luijk''' (born 17 September 1984 in [[Spijkenisse]]) is a Dutch [[Sprint (running)|sprinter]].<ref name="beijing">{{cite web |url=http://results.beijing2008.cn/WRM/ENG/BIO/Athlete/9/218009.shtml |title=Athlete biography: Patrick van Luijk |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080909194759/http://results.beijing2008.cn/WRM/ENG/BIO/Athlete/9/218009.shtml |archive-date=9 September 2008 |website=Beijing2008.cn |publisher=[[Beijing Organizing Committee for the Olympic Games]] |access-date=29 August 2008}}</ref>

==Biography==
Patrick van Luijk was born in 1984 to a Dutch mother and a [[Jamaica]]n father.<ref name="bio">{{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20080623090136/http://www.patrickvanluijk.com/site.html Patrick van Luijk bio]}}, patrickvanluijk.com, ret: Aug 4, 2008</ref> Sports have always been the most important hobby of Van Luijk and he started with [[football (soccer)|football]] at an early age for local team FC Bakestijn. He continued his career at [[XerxesDZB|Xerxes]] and later, when his friends joined [[Sparta Rotterdam]] he was scouted by [[Feyenoord]] and he played in their youth squads for a few years.<ref name="bio"/> Because he did not feel at home at Feyenoord he played for RVVH Ridderkerk for a while before joining [[FC Dordrecht]].<ref name="bio"/> Because his education was suffering from all the football commitments he decided to slow down on it and focus on his school again.<ref name="bio"/>

He felt it was time for a change and fighting sports got his interest at first. For three years he practiced [[Modern Schools of Ninjutsu|ninjutsu]], but he did not know if he would feel like continuing in the sport.<ref name="bio"/> When his former girlfriend told him about sprinting he was unsure if another change in sports would be a smart thing. After asking several more times he finally decided to do an athletics trial with a friend in which they did all athletics disciplines from shot put to long jump and from high jump to javelin throw. The last and final event was the sprint and he was addicted straight away.<ref name="bio"/>

As of October 2004 he started becoming active as a sprinter, training twice a week.<ref name="bio"/> It didn't take him a long time to become the fastest runner at the team and this encouraged him to become better.<ref name="bio"/> In local meetings with other teams however he was not able to win yet and because he always wanted to win he decided to join a better team named Rotterdam Atletiek.<ref name="bio"/> From February 2005 he is coached by [[Errol Esajas]] and since that time he is training six times a week instead of the two times before.<ref name="bio"/> This resulted in his participation at the European Championships of 2006 after only being active in the sport for two years.<ref name="bio"/> At the European Championships he reached the final with the 4 × 100 metres relay team together with [[Timothy Beck]], [[Caimin Douglas]] and [[Guus Hoogmoed]]. In the final they finished in eighth position with 39.64 while they had been running 38.85 in the semi-final. Van Luijk also participated at the 200 metres where he was eliminated in the second round.

In 2007 Van Luijk won his first national title at the 60 metres indoor and a year later he tried to defend his title, but he came only 0.004 too short on Guus Hoogmoed to finish in second position that time.<ref name="bio"/> Later in 2008 he became the Dutch national champion over 100 and 200 metres outdoor, claiming his second and third title.<ref name="bio"/> The 4 × 100 metres relay team together with team mates [[Maarten Heisen]], Caimin Douglas and Guus Hoogmoed ([[Gregory Sedoc]] and [[Virgil Spier]] as reserves) did qualify for the Olympics. Initially they finished in 17th position during the qualification process while only the first 16 teams would qualify, but due to the cancellation of the [[Australia]]n team they were allowed to start in [[Beijing]].<ref>[http://antilliaans.caribiana.nl/sport/car20080722_douglas.html Atleet Caimin Douglas toch naar Peking]{{dead link|date=July 2016 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}, antilliaans.caribiana.nl, ret: Aug 3, 2008</ref> In their qualification heat Heisen, Hoogmoed, Van Luijk and Douglas placed third in behind [[Trinidad and Tobago]] and [[Japan]], but in front of [[Brazil]]. Their time of 38.87 was the fifth fastest out of all sixteen participating nations in the first round and they qualified for the final. In the final, the second baton change between Hoogmoed and Van Luijk failed, resulting in a slow time. They still finished the race to place seventh, before the disqualified [[China|Chinese]] team.<ref name="beijing"/>

==Personal bests==
:Outdoor
*[[100 metres]] - 10.25 (2008, [[Leiria]])
*[[200 metres]] - 20.47	(2012, [[Leiden]])

:Indoor
*[[60 metres]] - 6.66 (2011, [[Apeldoorn]]; 2011, [[Zoetermeer]]; 2009, [[Apeldoorn]])

==Honours==
*{{gold1}} 60 metres (indoor) - Dutch National Championships, 2007
*{{silver2}} 60 metres (indoor) - Dutch National Championships, 2008
*{{gold1}} 100 metres - Dutch National Championships, 2008
*{{gold1}} 200 metres - Dutch National Championships, 2008
*{{silver2}} 200 metres - European Athletics Championships, 2012
*{{gold1}} 4 × 100 metres - European Athletics Championships, 2012

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
* {{World Athletics|14214623}}
* {{European Athletics|14214623}}
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20160610053700/https://www.atletiek.nl/atleet/patrick-van-luijk Patrick van Luijk] at [[Atletiek.nl]] (archived) {{in lang|nl}}
* {{Olympedia}}
* {{Olympics.com|patrick-van-luijk}}
* {{TeamNL|patrick-van-luijk|old_id=5315-patrick-van-luijk}}
* {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080703220035/http://www.patrickvanluijk.com/ |title=Official website |date=dmy}}

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[[Category:Dutch male sprinters]]
[[Category:Athletes (track and field) at the 2008 Summer Olympics]]
[[Category:Athletes (track and field) at the 2012 Summer Olympics]]
[[Category:Dutch people of Jamaican descent]]
[[Category:European Athletics Championships medalists]]
[[Category:Olympic athletes for the Netherlands]]
[[Category:Sportspeople from Spijkenisse]]
[[Category:World Athletics Championships athletes for the Netherlands]]
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