Melissa Bishop
Melissa Bishop 
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| birthday | 5th August 1988 (age 32) | |||||||||||||||||||||
| place of birth | Eganville , Canada | |||||||||||||||||||||
| size | 173 cm | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 56 kg | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| discipline | 800 meter run | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Best performance | 1: 57.01 min | |||||||||||||||||||||
| status | active | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Melissa Bishop-Nriagu (born August 5, 1988 in Eganville , Renfrew County , Ontario as Melissa Corrine Bishop ) is a Canadian middle -distance runner who specializes in the 800-meter distance .
At the Olympic Games in London in 2012 and at the World Athletics Championships in Moscow in 2013 , she was eliminated in the preliminary stages.
In 2014 she finished eighth at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow , and in 2015 she won the Pan American Games in Toronto .
At the 2015 World Athletics Championships in Beijing, she improved the Canadian record over 800 m to 1: 57.52 min in the semifinals. In the final she won the silver medal with 1: 58.12 min.
In the following year she finished fourth at the 2016 Olympic Games with a new national record of 1: 57.02 minutes behind Caster Semenya , Francine Niyonsaba and Margaret Wambui .
In 2017, Bishop improved her Canadian record at the Herculis Meeting by a hundredth of a second to 1: 57.01 min, and she finished fifth at the World Championships in London. In October she married her longtime boyfriend, Osi Nriagu, whom she met through her university's athletics team. The 2018 season left her pregnant, and in July she became a mother and daughter.
Personal bests
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800 m : 1: 57.01 min, July 21, 2017, Monaco
- Hall: 2: 00.19 min, February 20, 2016, Glasgow
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1000 m : 2: 38.75 min, August 22, 2014, Amsterdam
- Hall: 2: 39.77 min, February 8, 2014, Boston
- 1500 m : 4: 09.36 min, May 18, 2019, Windsor
Web links
- Melissa Bishop in the database of World Athletics (English)
- Entry with the Canadian Olympic Committee
- Melissa Bishop in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Melissa Bishop sets Canadian record in 800m at world championships. In: globalnews.ca. August 27, 2015, accessed April 19, 2019 .
- ↑ Melissa Bishop shares wedding day photo. In: runningmagazine.ca. October 7, 2017, accessed April 19, 2019 .
- ↑ Bride-to-be Melissa Bishop dishes details on upcoming wedding. In: runningmagazine.ca. July 13, 2017, accessed April 19, 2019 .
- ↑ Canadian track star Melissa Bishop 'excited' to be new mother. In: theglobeandmail.com. July 4, 2018, accessed April 19, 2019 .
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| SURNAME | Bishop, Melissa |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Bishop, Melissa Corrine; Bishop-Nriagu, Melissa |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Canadian middle distance runner |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 5th August 1988 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Eganville , Renfrew County , Ontario |