Liina Luik

Liina Luik
nation	Estonia
birthday	October 14, 1985
Career
Best performance	1:12:44 h (half marathon) 2:39:42 h (marathon)
status	active
last change: October 3, 2016

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

Career

She ran her first marathon on September 12, 2010 at the Tallinn Marathon , for which she needed 3:13:54 h.

At the beginning of December 2013, she needed 2:40:05 h for the Shanghai Marathon .

In 2014 she came in 29th place in the marathon after 2:41:48 h at the European Athletics Championships in Zurich .

On August 30, 2015, she ran the marathon at the World Athletics Championships in Beijing . She reached the goal after 2:39:42 h with a new personal best and finished in 27th place.

Her identical triplet sisters Lily and Leila are also long-distance runners.

The three sisters competed together at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. Liina couldn't finish the race.

Sporting successes

(DNF - Did Not Finish )

Personal best

open air

• 3000 m : 9: 47.48 min, Tallinn
• 5000 m : 16: 22.83 min, Tallinn
• 10,000 m : 36: 52.82 min, Kohila
• 10km road run: 34:33 min, Paderborn
• Half marathon : 1:12:44 h, March 1st, 2015, Lido di Ostia
• Marathon : 2:39:42 h, August 30, 2015, World Championships in Beijing

Hall

• 3000 m: 9: 39.80 min, Tallinn

Web links

• Liina Luik in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Liina 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)