Kimberley Smith

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Kim Smith (right) at the 2010 New York Marathon

Kimberley "Kim" Smith (born November 19, 1981 in Papakura ) is a former New Zealand middle and long distance runner .

Career

A graduate of King's College in Auckland , she attended Providence College in Rhode Island on an athletic scholarship from 2002 to 2005 , where she met her current coach, Ray Treacy.

At the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, she was eliminated in the semifinals of the 5000-meter run . The following year she finished 15th at the World Championships in Helsinki over 10,000 m and won the Universiade over 5000 m. In 2006, she was sidelined for most of the season because of an Achilles tendon rupture and pulmonary embolism .

At the 2007 World Championships in Osaka she was fifth over 10,000 m , at the 2008 World Indoor Championships in Valencia sixth over 3000 m and ninth over 10,000 m at the 2008 Olympic Games . In the fall, she competed in the New York City Marathon , but gave up at 32 km.

In 2009 she came as the best non-African runner in 13th place at the World Cross Country Championships in Amman , was eighth at the World Championships in Berlin over 10,000 m and with the national record of 1:09:35 h, seventh at the World Half Marathon Championships in Birmingham .

In 2010 she finished second in the half marathon competition of the Mardi Gras Marathon and improved her national record to 1:07:55 h. She was eighth in the London Marathon and fifth in the New York City Marathon. As part of the Philadelphia Half Marathon , she was able to increase her national record to 1:07:11 h.

In 2011 she ran the fastest time ever for a woman on US soil on the half marathon route of the Mardi Gras Marathon.

Kimberley Smith is 1.66 m tall and weighs 49 kg. She lives in Providence and starts working for Reebok .

Best times

  • 1500 m : 4: 11.25 min, June 26, 2004, Waltham
  • 3000 m: 8: 35.31 min, July 25, 2007, Monaco (Oceania record)
  • 5000 m, 14: 45.93 min, July 11, 2008, Rome (Oceania record)
  • 10,000 m: 30: 35.54 min, May 4, 2008, Palo Alto (Oceania record)
  • 10 km road run : 31:38 min, 25 May 2009, London
  • Half marathon: 1:07:11 h, September 18, 2011, Philadelphia
  • Marathon : 2:25:21 h, April 25, 2010, London

Hall

  • Mile run : 4: 24.14 min, February 8, 2008, Boston (Oceania record)
  • 3000 m: 8: 38.14 min, January 27, 2007, Boston (Oceania record)
  • 5000 m: 14: 39.89 min, February 27, 2009, New York City (Oceania record)

Web links

Commons : Kimberley Smith  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Footnotes

  1. ^ IAAF: Smith sizzles 1:07:36 in New Orleans ( Memento of February 15, 2011 in the Internet Archive ). February 14, 2011
personal data
SURNAME Smith, Kimberley
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Smith, Kim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION New Zealand middle and long distance runner
DATE OF BIRTH 19th November 1981
PLACE OF BIRTH Papakura