Catherine Chikwakwa

Agnes Catherine Chikwakwa (born June 24, 1985 in Blantyre ) is a Malawian long-distance runner .

At the age of 15, Chikwakwa took part in the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney. However, she was eliminated in the lead over 5000 m . Even at the 2001 World Athletics Championships in Edmonton, she could not qualify for the final. She was thirteenth at the 2002 Commonwealth Games .

In 2003 Chikwakwa started at the World Cross Country Championships in Lausanne . On the long haul she took 32nd place and on the short haul she placed 50th. At the World Athletics Championships in Paris , she failed again in the prelude over 5000 meters. Although she had already competed in the adult class for several years, she was still eligible to start as a junior in 2004. At the Junior World Championships in Athletics in Grosseto , she won the silver medal in the 5000 meter run behind the Ethiopian Meselech Melkamu . A month later she ran the same distance at the Olympic Games in Athens , but dropped out just like a year later at theWorld Athletics Championships in Helsinki in the run-up.

In the road run , Chikwakwa achieved some minor successes. In 2003 she won the Tübingen City Run and the Zurich New Year's Run as well as the Darmstadt City Run , in which she successfully defended her title in 2004. In 2005 she won the 10-kilometer run as part of the Dresden Marathon and for the second time the Zurich New Year's Eve run.

Top performances

• 3000 m : 9: 11.89 min, July 25, 2006, Stockholm
• 5000 m: 15: 36.22 min, July 13, 2004, Grosseto
• 10,000 m : 35: 03.6 min, July 2nd, 2005, Harare

Web links

• Catherine Chikwakwa in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Catherine Chikwakwa in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )