Andrea Sambu Sipe
Andrea Sambu Sipe (also Andrew Sambu; born October 5, 1972 in Mbulu ) is a Tanzanian long-distance runner .
At the African Athletics Championships in 1990 in Cairo, he won silver in the 5000 m and 10,000 m . The following year he won the junior race of the Cross Country World Championships in Antwerp and the Giro Media Blenio , but retired from the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo over 5000 m in the preliminary run. Over the same distance, he finished tenth at the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona.
He then switched to road running and set the current course record at the Saint-Denis half marathon in 1996 .
In 2001 he reported back with a victory at the Prague Marathon and was twelfth in the Chicago Marathon . He came second in Prague in 2002 and in the Cologne Marathon in 2002 and 2003. In 2004 he was fourth in the Ruhr Marathon and second in the JoongAng Seoul Marathon , in 2005 fourth in the Seoul International Marathon and in 2007 fourth in the Belgrade Marathon .
In 2010 he was third in the Utrecht Marathon and eighth in the Danzhou Marathon . 2013 followed a ninth place in Danzhou.
Personal bests
- 3000 m : 7: 42.93 min, August 11, 1991, Grosseto
- 5000 m: 13: 20.12 min, August 5, 1991, Malmö
- 10,000 m: 28: 31.5 min, October 3, 1990, Cairo
- Half marathon : 1:01:43 h, November 3, 1996, Saint-Denis
- Marathon : 2:09:52 h, November 7, 2004, Seoul
Web links
- Andrea Sipe Sambu in the database of World Athletics (English)
- Athlete portrait at the ARRS
Footnotes
- ^ IAAF: Tanzanian outsider beats the Kenyans while Viceconte confirms favorite tag with new record . May 20, 2001
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Sipe, Andrea Sambu |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Sambu, Andrew |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Tanzanian long distance runner |
DATE OF BIRTH | 5th October 1972 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Mbulu |