Lisa Jane Weightman
Lisa Jane Weightman (born January 16, 1979 in Melbourne ) is an Australian long-distance runner .
In 2006 she became national champion in the 10,000 m and second in the half marathon competition of the Gold Coast Marathon , which she won the following year. At the road running world championships she was 37th in Debrecen in 2006 and 33rd in Udine in 2007 .
In 2008 she finished 20th at the World Cross Country Championships in Edinburgh and won bronze with the Australian team. She then finished fifth in the Great Ireland Run and finished 13th in the London Marathon on her debut on the 42.195 km distance . With her time of 2:32:32 h she qualified for the marathon of the Olympic Games in Beijing , where she finished 33rd in 2:34:16 h.
The following year she came in 17th place at the World Cross Country Championships in Amman and won again at the Gold Coast Marathon on the half marathon distance. At the marathon of the World Athletics Championships in Berlin , she divided the race intelligently and, after half of the distance in 34th place, pushed her way to the finish in 18th place and achieved a time of 2:30:42 h.
In 2010 she won the Nagano marathon by over three minutes and broke the two and a half hour mark for the first time with a time of 2:28:48 h.
With a personal best of 2:26:05 h, she won the Melbourne Marathon in 2012 .
Lisa Jane Weightman is 1.57 m tall and weighs 44 kg. She is trained by Dick Telford, who previously looked after Lisa Martin-Ondieki , and starts for the Preston Athletics Club. Professionally, she worked successfully for IBM as a business analyst . She lives in Melbourne with her husband Lachlan McArthur.
Personal bests
- 5000 m : 15: 54.31 min, April 20, 2007, Eugene
- 10,000 m: 32: 20.14 min, December 10, 2009, Melbourne
- 10 km road run : 31:55 min, July 28, 2019, Sydney
- Half marathon: 1:08:48 h, August 4, 2019, Sunshine Coast
- Marathon: 2:25:15 am, April 23, 2017, London
Web links
- Site of Lisa Jane Weightman (English)
- Lisa Jane Weightman in the database of World Athletics (English)
- Lisa Jane Weightman in the database of Athletics Australia (English)
- Lisa Jane Weightman in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
- Athlete portrait ( Memento from March 25, 2012 on the Internet Archive ) at Athletics Australia
- Athlete portrait on marathoninfo.free.fr
- Australia's Top Marathon Runner - Lisa Weightman , Portrait of Edward Ovadia at The Runner's Tribe, November 5, 2009 ( Part 2 , November 16, 2009)
Footnotes
- ^ IAAF: Chelimo and Weightman take Nagano Marathon titles ( Memento of April 21, 2010 in the Internet Archive ). April 18, 2010
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Weightman, Lisa Jane |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Australian long distance runner |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 16, 1979 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Melbourne , Australia |