Leila Luik

Leila Luik
Leila Luik at the 2016 Summer Olympics
nation	Estonia
birthday	October 14, 1985
Career
Best performance	1:13:58 h (half marathon) 2:37:11 h (marathon)
status	active
last change: October 3, 2016

Leila Luik (born October 14, 1985 ) is an Estonian long-distance runner and Olympian (2016).

Career

She ran her first marathon on September 11, 2011 at the Tallinn Marathon , for which she needed 2:52:05 h. On October 21, 2012, she ran the Amsterdam Marathon in 2:40:12 h. At the beginning of December 2013, it took 2:37:11 h for the Shanghai Marathon . In 2014 she reached 43rd place in the marathon after 2:45:59 h at the European Athletics Championships in Zurich .

Her identical triplet sisters Lily and Liina are also long-distance runners. The three sisters competed together at the 2016 Summer Olympics. Leila finished 114th in Rio de Janeiro.

Sporting successes

Personal best

open air

• 5000 m : 16: 57.55 min, Tallinn
• 10 km road run: 34:16 min, Paderborn
• Half marathon : 1:13:58 h, March 3, 2013, Lido di Ostia
• Marathon : 2:37:11 h, December 1, 2013, Shanghai Marathon

Hall

• 3000 m : 9: 38.83 min, Tallinn

Web links

• Leila Luik in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Leila Luik in the database of European Athletics (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Three sisters from Estonia compete against each other at the Olympics (May 27, 2016)
2. ↑ Triplets start in the Olympic marathon: 100 percent Luik siblings for Estonia (August 1, 2016)