Clementine Mukandanga

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Clementine Mukandanga
Personal information
NationalityRwandan
Born (1985-12-08) 8 December 1985 (age 38)
Ngoma District, Rwanda
Sport
Sport Athletics
Event Marathon
Achievements and titles
Personal best(s)Marathon: 2:25:54 (Firenze, 2023)

Clementine Mukandanga (born 8 December 1985) is a Rwandan marathon runner. [1]

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Career

In 2014, she ran a personal best time at the 2014 Commonwealth Games of 34:12:31 as she finished tenth in the 10000m women's final in Glasgow. [2] Mukandanga won the 5-km athletics competition known as the 'Christmas Run' held at the Amahoro National Stadium in December 2014. [3]

Mukandanga finished sixth in the 10,000 metres at the 2015 African Games in Republic of the Congo. [4] She competed at the 2016 Africa Athletics Senior Championship in Durban, where she finished seventh in the 10,000 metres race and met the qualifing standard for the 2016 Summer Olympics with her performance. [5] In 2017, she won the Rwanda 10km cross country title in Kicukiro. [6]

In 2018, she finished third at the Firenze Marathon and met the qualifying standard for the World Championships, running 2:30:50. [7] She competed in Doha at the 2019 World Athletics Championships. In 2020, she won the Varma Marathon in Bulgaria in 2:35:14. [8]

Mukandanga set a personal best of 2:25:54 to win the Firenze Marathon in November 2023. [9] This was two minutes faster than her previous personal best from the year before, also set in Firenze, where she finished in third place. [10]

Personal life

Mukandanga is based in Siena, Italy. [11]

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