Lisa Jane Weightman is an Australian long distance runner and four time Olympian who specializes in the marathon event. At the 2020 Tokyo Olympics she came 26th in the Women's marathon with a time of 2:34.19, 7 minutes behind the eventual winner, Peres Jepchirchir.
Épiphanie Nyirabaramé is a Rwandan athlete who specialized in marathon and long-distance running. She represented Rwanda at two Olympic games.
Zemzem Ahmed Deko is an Ethiopian steeplechase runner and road runner. She emerged as one of Ethiopia's top steeplechasers, and had broken her own personal records three times in 2007.
Pauline Curley is an Irish marathon runner. At age thirty-nine, she represented Ireland for the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, and competed in the women's marathon. She ran and finished the race in sixty-third place, with a time of 2:47:16. She also achieved her personal best, when she placed ninth at the 2008 Fortis Marathon in Rotterdam, Netherlands, with a time of 2:39:05. On 25 August 2013 she ran Longford Marathon, Ireland with a time of 2:44:22.
Nina Kathy Rillstone is a New Zealand long-distance and marathon runner. She is a national champion in both middle and long-distance running, and a national record holder for the half-marathon.
Kelsie Hendry is a Canadian pole vaulter. Hendry set a historic milestone as the first-ever female athlete from Saskatoon to represent Canada at the Olympics. She also shared her three-way triumph with teammate Carly Dockendorf, and England's Kate Dennison for the bronze medal at the 2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi, India.
Petra Prokoppne Teveli is a Hungarian marathon runner. In 2008, she set her personal best time of 2:35:21 by finishing fifth in the Turin Marathon.
Marily dos Santos is a Brazilian marathon runner. Aged 30 she made her Olympic debut, placing 51st in the 2008 Olympic marathon in a time of 2:38:10. She finished fifth at the 2015 Pan American Games and 78th at the 2016 Rio Olympics.
Jacquelyn Kate "Jackie" Johnson is an American heptathlete. She is a four-time NCAA outdoor champion, and a three-time NCAA indoor champion (2006–2008) while competing for Arizona State University. She also set a personal best of 6,347 points by placing second at the 2008 U.S. Olympic Trials in Eugene, Oregon, which guaranteed her a qualifying place for the Olympics. Johnson was a member of the track and field team for the Arizona State Sun Devils, where she wa coached and trained by Dan O'Brien, gold medalist in the decathlon at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia. In 2008, she won the Honda Sports Award as the nation's best female collegiate track and field athlete.
Lindsey Anderson is an American middle distance and steeplechase runner. She is a two-time NCAA All-American, a four-time school record holder at Weber State University, and a six-time Big Sky Conference senior champion. She also set a personal best time of 9:30.75 in the 3,000 meter steeplechase by placing second at the 2008 U.S. Olympic Trials in Eugene, Oregon, which guaranteed her a qualifying place for the Olympics. University of Missouri women cross country head coach
Tabitha Tsatsa is a Zimbabwean marathon elite veteran runner. She set both a national record and a personal best time of 2:29:20, by finishing fourth at the 2008 Dong-A Seoul International Marathon, held in Seoul, South Korea.
María Portillo Cruz is a Peruvian marathon runner. Portillo made her official debut for the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, where she placed thirty-second out of fifty-four runners in the women's marathon, with a time of 2:36:50.
Ana Maria Guerreiro Dias is a Portuguese long-distance and marathon runner. She is a four-time Olympian, and a multiple-time national record holder for the long-distance running. She also set a personal best time of 2:28:49, by finishing fourth in the women's race at the 2003 Berlin Marathon.
Chae Eun-Hee is a South Korean marathon runner. Chae represented South Korea at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, where she competed in the women's marathon, along with her teammates and fellow runners Lee Eun-Jung and Lee Sun-Young. She successfully finished the race in fifty-third place by twenty-one seconds behind Germany's Susanne Hahn, with a time of 2:38:52.
Patricia Rétiz Gutiérrez is a Mexican marathon runner. She set a personal best time of 2:30:29, by winning the 2008 LALA Marathon in Torreón, Coahuila.
Valentina Delion is a Moldovan marathon runner. She set a personal best time of 2:36:50, by winning the 2005 Bonn Marathon in Germany.
Madeleine Pape is an Australian sociologist and former middle-distance athlete.
Donna Tyberek-MacFarlane is an Australian middle distance and steeplechase runner. She set both an Australian record and her personal best time of 9:18.35, by finishing third in the women's 3000 metres steeplechase at the 2008 IAAF Golden League Meeting in Oslo, Norway.
Lisa Corrigan is an Australian middle-distance runner and the current Australian record holder over the one mile where she set a time of 4.22.6 in 2007. She set her personal best time of 4:05.25, by winning the women's 1500 metres at the Telstra Athletics Series in Sydney. She ran a personal best to beat Tamsyn Lewis over the 800m in 2007 in 2.01.5. She has represented Australia at the Oceania championships 1999, youth commonwealth games 2000, World youth championships 2001, Ekiden relays, Melbourne commonwealth Games 2006, world championships 2007 and Olympic Games 2008.
Kellie Wapshott is an Australian race walker. She set her personal best time of 1:32:57, by finishing second in the women's 20 km at the 2008 Australian Race Walking Championships, coincidentally in her home city Melbourne.
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