Helalia Johannes

Helalia Johannes
Helalia Johannes 2016, at the Olympic Games in Rio
Full name	Helalia Lukeiko Johannes
nation	Namibia
birthday	13th August 1980 (age 40)
place of birth	Windhoek ,  Namibia ( South West Africa )
Career
discipline	Long distance running
Best performance	Marathon: 2:22:25 hours
status	active
Medal table
World championships 0 × 0 × 1 × Africa Games 0 × 0 × 1 × Commonwealth Games 1 × 0 × 0 × Military world games 0 × 0 × 1 ×
World championships bronze Doha 2019 marathon  Africa Games bronze Maputo 2011 marathon  Commonwealth Games gold Gold Coast 2018 marathon Military world games bronze Rio de Janeiro 2011 marathon
last change: September 28, 2019

Helalia Lukeiko Johannes (born August 13, 1980 in Windhoek , South West Africa , today Namibia ) is a Namibian long-distance runner who specializes in marathons and half marathons .

successes

In 2011 Johannes won the Rössing Marathon , organized by Rössing Uranium Limited , which is held annually near the city of Swakopmund in Namibia . In the same year she won the half marathon at the Two Oceans Marathon in Cape Town ( South Africa ) in record time .

In addition, she previously won the half marathon route of the Two Oceans Marathon three times (2006, 2007, 2009).

In 2007 she set a national record as fourth in the Dublin Marathon with 2:35:30 hours. The following year, on July 5, in Port Elizabeth, she set another national record in the half marathon with 1:10:59 hours, finished 40th in the marathon of the Olympic Games in Beijing and came fifth in the Dublin marathon with 2:32:30 Hours back the national record of Beata Naigambo .

In the marathon of the World Athletics Championships 2009 in Berlin, she came in 56th place. In 2011 she became the Namibian Cross Country Champion.

Johannes was part of the Namibian team for the 2012 Olympic Summer Games and finished 12th on the marathon route in the Olympic final in London with a time of 2:26:02 hours. She won gold in the marathon at the 2018 Commonwealth Games . In the same year Johannes won the marathon in Cape Town, South Africa with a new course record.

In March 2019, she won the Nagoya Women's Marathon in Nagoya, Japan, with a time of 2:22:25 hours, after winning seven of the eight races she participated in in 2018 and finishing second. In June she set a new Namibian record in Durban, South Africa, over the 10 kilometers in 30:59 minutes, and at the end of September she won bronze at the World Championships in Doha .

Personal bests

• 10K road run : 30:59 minutes, June 23, 2019, Durban (Namibian record)
• Half marathon: 1:10:30 hours, April 20, 2019, Cape Town (Namibian record)
• Marathon: 2:22:25 hours, March 10, 2019, Nagoya (Namibian record)

Web links

Commons : Helalia Johannes  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

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

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Johannes wins Two Oceans in record style, Namibia Sport, April 25, 2011 ( Memento of November 27, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
2. ^ All Africa Games Showdown in Maputo. Informanté, August 25, 2011
3. ^ ^{A b} Johannes wins Nagoya Women's Marathon in Japan. Namibia Press Agency , March 10, 2019.
4. ↑ Johannes wins Spar Durban in fastest time on South African Soil. In: sparwomensrace.co.za. June 24, 2019, accessed July 4, 2019 .