Luis Alberto Orta Millan (born 15 January 1989) is a Venezuelan

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who specializes in the

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. He competed in the men's marathon event at the

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. He currently holds two Venezuelan Records: one in the

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distance and in the 10 km (road).

Biography

Luis Orta earned a master's degree from the

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in Sports Management and Coaching in 2014. After this, he continued to pursue various certifications such as: RRCA Certified Coach in 2017, the Lydiard Certified Coach in 2018, the USATF Certified Coach in 2019 and the Vdot, Jack Daniels Certified Coach in 2020. He currently resides in Boulder, Colorado, where he founded My Olympic Coach LLC., an online training platform for athletes around the world. Orta is married to Sri Lankan-American

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athlete Hiruni Wijayaratne. While in college, Orta ran for the Kentucky Wildcats were he quickly became the Team captain and was awarded as Mr. Wildcat or athlete of the year for two years in a row. Orta qualified for the

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in 2016 held in

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, and was able to represent his birth country of

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. In his last chance to qualify, Orta was able to run the marathon Olympic standard at the 2016

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in the Netherlands earlier that year, running only 6 seconds under the standard with a time of 2:18:56. At the Olympics that year, he ran the marathon in a time of 2:27:05 and finished 105th overall.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Orta, Luis 1989 births Living people Athletes (track and field) at the 2011 Pan American Games Athletes (track and field) at the 2015 Pan American Games Athletes (track and field) at the 2016 Summer Olympics Olympic athletes for Venezuela Pan American Games competitors for Venezuela Venezuelan male long-distance runners Venezuelan male marathon runners World Athletics Championships athletes for Venezuela Sportspeople from Caracas