Lisa Jane Weightman

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Lisa Weightman
Lisa Jane Weightman 2008 Australian Olympic team.jpg
Weightman with her nephew in Melbourne for the 2008 Olympic homecoming parade
Personal information
Full nameLisa Jane Weightman
Born (1979-01-16) 16 January 1979 (age 44)
Melbourne, Australia [1]
Height1.57 m (5 ft 2 in)
Weight44 kg (97 lb)
Sport
CountryFlag of Australia (converted).svg  Australia
SportAthletics
Event(s) Marathon
Coached byRichard Telford
Medal record
Representing Flag of Australia (converted).svg  Australia
Commonwealth Games
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2010 Delhi Marathon
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2018 Gold Coast Marathon
IAAF World Cross Country Championships
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2008 Edinburgh Team

Lisa Jane Weightman (born 16 January 1979) 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. [2]

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Weightman represented Australia in the marathon at the 2008 Summer Olympics, the 2012 Summer Olympics and the 2009 World Championships in Athletics. She won her first marathon race in 2010, setting a personal best time of 2:28:48 at the Nagano Olympic Commemorative Marathon.

She has also competed at the IAAF World Road Running Championships and the IAAF World Cross Country Championships, winning a team bronze in the latter competition in 2008.

Career

Weightman started out as a track runner but had her first success in cross country running, winning the under-23 section of the national championships in 2003. She took part in the Chiba Ekiden road relay competition the following year and finished ninth. In 2006, she became a double national champion when she topped the podium in the 10,000 metres and half marathon events, and she returned to the Chiba Ekiden to improve to fourth place in her stage. [3]

Her first international championships appearance was at the 2006 IAAF World Road Running Championships where she placed thirty-seventh overall. [4] Weightman ended the year by finishing second in the 10,000 metres at the Zatopek Classic behind New Zealander Jessica Ruthe. [5] (Zatopek is named after the Czech distance running great Emil Zatopek and was first held in 1961. It is one of the most prestigious track races on Australian soil). [6] Weightman represented Australia twice in 2007: taking forty-second place at the 2007 IAAF World Cross Country Championships and thirty-third at the 2007 IAAF World Road Running Championships. [7]

Weightman won a world championship medal at the 2008 IAAF World Cross Country Championships [8] and she and Benita Johnson helped lead the Australian women to the team bronze. She made her marathon debut soon afterwards, [9] finishing thirteenth in the women's race with a time of 2:32:32. This performance gained her selection for the women's marathon race at the 2008 Summer Olympics, where she finished thirty-third with a time of 2:34:16, the second best Australian performance after Johnson. [7]

Weightman improved her best world cross country performance at the 2009 IAAF World Cross Country Championships, finishing seventeenth and heading the Australian team to seventh place in the rankings. [10] [11] At the 2009 Christchurch Half Marathon, she was the first past the post to record her first major win on the road running circuit. [12] She competed at her first World Championships in Athletics later that season as Australia's only participant in the women's marathon; she placed eighteenth overall and set a new personal best over the distance with a time of 2:30:42. [13]

She improved further in the marathon at the start of the following year, dominating the Nagano Olympic Commemorative Marathon from the 15 km mark to the finish. She knocked almost two minutes off her previous best time to win in 2:28:48, making her the first Australian to win the race. [14] She was selected for the event at the 2010 Commonwealth Games in New Delhi. She fell away from the leading pack on two occasions but managed to make up the deficit both times and won the bronze medal in a time of 2:35.25, although she had to be taken from the finish line in a wheelchair due to her exhaustion. [15] She won the 10 km run of the Gold Coast Marathon-event on 1 July 2012 in Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia finishing in front of Emma Moffatt. [16] At the 2012 Summer Olympics, she finished in 17th place. [17] She came 31st in the marathon at the 2016 Rio Olympics in 2:34:41 and 26th in the marathon at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. [18] She achieved a PB of 2:24:00 and came 15th at the 2022 Berlin Marathon. [19]

Personal life

Outside of competitive running, Weightman is a business consultant for IBM and she was the recipient of the 2000 Award for Business Excellence from The Age . [3] She is the daughter of former footballer Peter Weightman and married her training partner, Lachlan McArthur, in 2008. [20]

Personal bests

EventTime (h:m:s)VenueDate
10 kilometres 31:49 Victoria, Australia2021
20 kilometres 1:10:51 Debrecen, Hungary8 October 2006
Half marathon 1:08:48 Sunshine Coast, Australia2019
Marathon 2:23:15 Osaka, Japan2023

Competition record

YearCompetitionVenuePositionEvent
2006 World Road Running Championships Debrecen, Hungary37th20 kilometres
2007 World Cross Country Championships Mombasa, Kenya42ndSenior race
World Road Running Championships Udine, Italy33rdHalf marathon
2008 World Cross Country Championships Edinburgh, Scotland20thSenior individual
3rdSenior team
Olympic Games Beijing, China33rd Marathon
2009 World Cross Country Championships Amman, Jordan17thSenior individual
7thSenior team
World Championships in Athletics Berlin, Germany18th Marathon
2010 Nagano Marathon Nagano, Japan1stMarathon2:28:48
2012 Olympic Games London, United Kingdom17thMarathon 2:27:32
2016 Olympic Games Rio de Janeiro, Brazil17thMarathon 2:34:41
2018 Commonwealth Games Gold Coast, Australia2ndMarathon 2:33:23
2021 Olympic Games Sapporo, Japan 26thMarathon 2:34:19
2022 Berlin Marathon Berlin, Germany15thMarathon2:24:00
2023 World Championships Budapest, Hungary 16thMarathon 2:30:50

Road race wins

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