Li Ji (athlete)

Li Ji ( Chinese  李 季 , Pinyin Lǐ Jì ; born September 19, 1979 ) is a Chinese long-distance runner .

The protégé of the controversial coach Ma Junren was the only runner from his so-called "army" that the Chinese officials approved for the Olympic Games in Sydney after blood tests in the summer of 2000 . There she was seventh over 10,000 m . The following year she won the silver medal in the 5000 m at the East Asian Games .

After a positive doping test on July 17, 2001, the athlete was banned for two years.

In 2004 she started for the Nagoya University of Commerce & Business at the Nagoya Marathon and came in 25th place.

Personal bests

• 5000 m: 15: 34.31 min, September 18, 1999, Xi'an
• 10,000 m: 31: 06.94 min, September 30, 2000, Sydney
• Marathon : 2:41:58 h, March 14, 2004, Nagoya

Web links

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

Footnotes

1. ^ The Daily Telegraph : Olympics: Enhancing the Olympic spirit . September 9, 2000

Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Chinese. Li is the family name here, Ji is the first name.