Beata Naigambo

Beata Naigambo
Beata Naigambo 2016, at the Olympic Games in Rio
nation	Namibia
birthday	March 11, 1980
place of birth	Oilagati ,  South West Africa
size	160 cm
Career
discipline	marathon
Best performance	2:26:57 hours
Trainer	Tobias Hezekiah
National squad	since ?
status	active
Medal table
Type of medals 3 × 0 × 1 ×
Hamburg marathon bronze Hamburg 2015 marathon Valencia marathon gold Valencia 2015 marathon gold Valencia 2014 marathon Eindhoven marathon gold Eindhoven 2009 marathon
last change: August 12, 2016

Beata Nandjala Naigambo (born March 11, 1980 in Oilagati , South West Africa ) is a Namibian marathon runner .

The 1.60 meter tall athlete is mother of a daughter and is trained by Tobias Hiskia .

Third in the Pyongyang Marathon in 2008, she set a national record with 2:33:17 hours and qualified for the Olympic Games in Beijing , where she came in 28th in 2:33:29 hours. At the 2009 World Athletics Championships in Berlin, she finished 24th in 2:33:05 hours. Two months later she won the Eindhoven Marathon and took back the national record of Helalia Johannes with a time of 2:31:01 hours . At the Hamburg Marathon 2015 she reached 3rd place in a time of 2:33:00 hours.

Naigambo was part of the Namibian team for the 2012 and 2016 Summer Olympics . She finished in London 2012 in the Olympic final with a achieved time of 2: 31.12 hours, 38th place on the marathon route.

In 2014 and 2015 she won the Valencia Marathon .

Naigambo also tried the 1000, 3000, 10,000 meters as well as the half marathon and over 30 kilometers.

Web links

Commons : Beata Naigambo  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Beata Naigambo in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Athlete portrait on marathoninfo.free.fr
• Beata Naigambo in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Profile on www.london2012.com , accessed August 12, 2012