Hendrick Ramaala

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Ramaala at the Berlin Marathon 2011

Hendrick Ramaala (born February 2, 1972 in Polokwane ) is a South African long-distance runner .

He improved the South African record in the 10,000 meter run three times , most recently in 1999 to the mark of 27: 29.94 min, which is still valid today, and in 1998 in the 20 (57:46 min) and 1999 in the 10 km road race ( 28:02 min) also set two national records that still stand today. In the half marathon , he has the five best times ever run by a South African.

At the World Half Marathon Championships he was twice second (1998 and 1999) and twice fourth (1997 and 2001). In 1997, 2003 and 2006 he won the Great North Run .

At the marathon of the Olympic Games 2000 in Sydney he finished twelfth, at the World Athletics Championships 2003 in Paris / Saint-Denis the ninth.

In 2000 he was fifth in the London Marathon , in 2001 he took the same place in the New York City Marathon .

In 2004 he won first the Mumbai Marathon and then the New York City Marathon . A year later he finished third in London and New York City in the tightest finish in the history of this marathon, second behind Paul Tergat , three tenths of a second behind.

In 2006 he set his best time of 2:06:55 h as third in London. The following year he was fifth in London, finished 27th at the World Athletics Championships in Osaka and was third in New York City.

After a rather disappointing 2008, in which he finished 44th in the marathon of the Olympic Games in Beijing , he returned in 2009 with a fifth place in the London Marathon and a time of 2:07:44 h.

Ramaala is 1.72 m tall and weighs 58 kg. He graduated in law at the University of Witwatersrand . When his attempt to get into the university's soccer team failed, he turned to running. He currently lives in Johannesburg . He's his own trainer and does most of his training on a 3.5-kilometer lap. His partner is the French long-distance runner Rodica Daniela Moroianu .

Web links

Commons : Hendrick Ramaala  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Footnotes

  1. ↑ All-Time Lists on arrs.run
personal data
SURNAME Ramaala, Hendrick
BRIEF DESCRIPTION South African long distance runner
DATE OF BIRTH 2nd February 1972
PLACE OF BIRTH Polokwane