Deena Kastor

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Deena Kastor at the 2007 Boston Marathon

Deena Kastor , nee Deena Drossin , (born February 14, 1973 in Waltham , Massachusetts ) is an American athlete . The long-distance runner was third in the 2004 Olympic marathon.

Athletic career

Long distance running

Deena Kastor first attracted attention as a track and cross-country runner . She was US cross-country champion seven times on the long (1997 to 2003, 2007) and once on the short course (2000). In 2000, 2001, 2003 and 2004 she became the national champion in the 10,000 meter run . Her US record over 10,000 m (30: 50.32 min, Palo Alto , May 3, 2002) was only beaten in 2008 by Shalane Flanagan , her best time over 5000 m (14: 51.62 min, Stockholm , August 1, 2000 ) is the third best of an American woman.

At international championships, however, she was initially denied a major breakthrough. At the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney she failed over 10,000 m in the semi-finals, at the 1999 World Athletics Championships in Seville and the 2001 World Athletics Championships in Edmonton, she was eleventh over the same distance and twelfth at the 2003 World Championships in Paris / Saint-Denis. She had more success at the Cross Country World Championships , where she won the silver medal in 2002 and 2003.

From 2000 she turned increasingly to road running and twice improved the US record over 15 km to the mark of 47:15 minutes ( Jacksonville , March 8, 2003), this time was also only beaten by Shalane Flanagan ( Jacksonville , March 15 , 2003) . March 2014).

Marathon run

In 2001, she was seventh overall of the New York City Marathon US marathon champion. In 2002 she finished sixth in the Chicago Marathon , and in 2003 she finished third in the London Marathon, breaking Joan Benoit's 17-year-old record to 2:21:16 h, staying more than five minutes below her personal best.

At the marathon of the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens she won the bronze medal behind Mizuki Noguchi and Catherine Ndereba .

In 2005 she broke the 21-year-old US record of Joan Benoit in the half marathon in Philadelphia with a time of 1:07:53 h . Shortly thereafter, she finished first in the Chicago Marathon . This made her the first American woman since Kristy Johnston (who won in the same place in 1995) to win one of the world's most important city marathons.

In 2006 she set two more US records: in the Berlin half marathon she finished second behind Edith Masai in 1:07:34 h , and in the rainy London marathon she was almost two minutes ahead of Lyudmila in 2:19:36 h Petrowa and Susan Chepkemei .

In 2007 she finished fifth in the Boston Marathon , taking her second US marathon title. In 2008 she won the US Athletics Federation's elimination race for the 2008 Olympic Games , which took place the day before the Boston Marathon. At the marathon race in Beijing, she had to give up after five kilometers after severe pain in her right foot when the cause was later determined to be a broken bone .

In 2010, she reported back with a course record in the half marathon race of the Rock 'n' Roll Arizona Marathon .

Personal

Deena Kastor is 1.63 m tall and weighs 47 kg. She grew up in Agoura Hills , graduated from the University of Arkansas with a degree in creative writing and journalism , and currently lives in Mammoth Lakes . She starts for the Asics team and is trained by Terence Mahon. She has been married to Andrew Kastor since 2003, who looks after her as a physiotherapist.

Sporting successes

marathon
Date / year rank competition venue time comment
Oct 11, 2015 7th Chicago marathon United StatesUnited States Chicago 02:27:47
Jan. 17, 2010 1 Rock 'n' Roll Arizona Marathon United StatesUnited States Arizona 01:09:43 half marathon
0Nov 5, 2006 6th New York City Marathon United StatesUnited States New York City 02:27:54
0Oct 9, 2005 1 Chicago marathon United StatesUnited States Chicago 02:21:25
22 Aug 2004 3 2004 Summer Olympics GreeceGreece Athens 02:27:20 marathon
Apr 13, 2003 3 London marathon United KingdomUnited Kingdom London 02:21:15 behind Paula Radcliffe - who set a new world record with 2:15:25 h
Oct 13, 2002 6th Chicago marathon United StatesUnited States Chicago 02:26:53
  2000 2000 Summer Olympics AustraliaAustralia Sydney failed over 10,000 m in the semi-finals

Web links

Footnotes

  1. ↑ National Champions on arrs.run
  2. ↑ All-Time Lists on arrs.run
  3. ↑ USA Record Progressions - Road on arrs.run
  4. ^ The Boston Globe : Deena Kastor breaks foot in marathon . August 17, 2008
  5. ↑ Running Times Magazine: 5 Minutes With Deena Kastor . March 2009
  6. ^ IAAF: Kastor back with sub-1:10 in Phoenix ( Memento from January 20, 2010 in the Internet Archive ). January 18, 2010
personal data
SURNAME Castor, Deena
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Drossin, Deena (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American athlete
DATE OF BIRTH February 14, 1973
PLACE OF BIRTH Waltham , Massachusetts