Shalane Flanagan

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Shalane Flanagan athletics

Shalane Flanagan 2009 Boston.jpg
Shalane Flanagan (right) in a duel
with Sentayehu Ejigu , Boston 2009

nation United StatesUnited States United States
birthday 8th July 1981 (age 39)
place of birth Boulder ,  United States
size 165 cm
Weight 51 kg
Career
discipline Long distance running
Trainer Jerry Schumacher
status resigned
End of career October 21, 2019
Medal table
Olympic games 0 × gold 1 × silver 0 × bronze
Cross Country World Championship 0 × gold 0 × silver 3 × bronze
World Marathon Majors 1 × gold 1 × silver 1 × bronze
Olympic rings Olympic games
silver Beijing 2008 10,000 m
IAAF logo World Cross Country Championships
bronze Bydgoszcz 2010 team
bronze Punta Umbría 2011 team
bronze Punta Umbría 2011 singles
Abbott World Marathon Majors logo (small) .svg World Marathon Majors
silver New York City 2010 marathon
bronze Berlin 2014 marathon
gold New York City 2017 marathon
last change: April 17, 2018

Shalane Flanagan (born July 8, 1981 in Boulder , Colorado ) is a former American long-distance runner .

Career

Shalane Flanagan is 1.65 m tall and weighs 51 kg. In 2012 she weighed in at a competition weight of 48 kg. She grew up in Marblehead ( Massachusetts on), where she lives today. She has been married to Steve Edwards since October 2005. Her parents are former marathon runners , her mother Cheryl Treworgy even set a world record in 1971 with 2:49:40 h. Flanagan graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill .

The three-time NCAA champion (2002 and 2003 in cross-country ; 2003 over 3000 m in the hall) Flanagan qualified in 2004 as third in the US eliminations for the 5000-meter run of the Olympic Games in Athens , but was also eliminated in the semifinals a year later at the World Athletics Championships in Helsinki . Due to injury, she had to skip the 2006 season. An excess bone in the foot turned out to be the cause of the protracted complaints.

She had her breakthrough in 2007. First she was national indoor champion over 3000 m, then, as in 2005, US champion over 5000 m, set the current North American records over 3000 m and 5000 m and was eighth over 5000 m at the World Championships in Osaka . In 2008 she started over 10,000 m for the first time and improved Deena Kastor's North American record by almost 16 seconds to 30: 34.49 minutes.

She achieved a further increase at the Olympic Games in Beijing , for which she had qualified as US champion. Only beaten by the Ethiopian Tirunesh Dibaba and the Turkish Elvan Abeylegesse , who was later disqualified for doping fraud , she finished third and improved her own record to 30: 22.22 minutes. In March 2017, she was subsequently awarded the silver medal for a positive follow-up test by the Turkish woman. Over 5000 m, she took tenth place.

In 2009 she set another North American record in the hall with 14: 47.62 minutes over 5000 m, but only came 14th at the World Athletics Championships in Berlin over 10,000 m.

In 2010 she was second in the New York City Marathon as a debutante with a time of 2:28:39 h.

Flanagan, trained by Jerry Schumacher since 2010 , starts at club level for Oregon TC Elite in Portland. She was also part of the US team for the 2012 Summer Olympics . In London , she covered the Olympic marathon distance in 2:25:51 hours. This put them in 10th place in the final ranking.

In 2013 she finished fourth in the Boston Marathon with a time of 2: 27.08 hours . In 2014 she finished seventh with a new personal best of 2:22:02 h.

On November 5, 2017, she became the first US runner since 1977 to win the New York City Marathon in 2:26:53 h.

On October 21, 2019, she ended her professional career.

With her friend Elyse Kopecky, she wrote a cookbook for runners.

Best times

  • 1500 m : 4: 05.86 min, June 10, 2007, Eugene
  • 3000 m: 8: 35.34 min, July 25, 2007, Monaco
    • Hall: 8: 33.25 min, January 27, 2007, Boston
  • 5000 m: 14: 44.80 min, April 13, 2007, Walnut
    • Hall: 14: 47.62 min, February 7, 2009, Boston
  • 10,000 m: 30: 22.22 min, August 15, 2008, Beijing
  • Half Marathon: 1:08:36, September 19, 2010, Philadelphia
  • Marathon: 2:21:14 h, September 28, 2014, Berlin

Web links

Commons : Shalane Flanagan  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Turkish Runners Banned For Doping; Will Lose Olympic And World Championship Medals. In: running.competitor.com. March 29, 2017, accessed April 17, 2018 .
  2. ↑ 2001 - 2015 Boston Marathon Results. Retrieved January 4, 2016 .
  3. ^ Shalane Flanagan Wins the New York City Marathon. Retrieved November 5, 2017 .
  4. ↑ A Generation's Leader Says Farewell: Shalane Flanagan Retires from Pro Running. In: womensrunning.com. October 21, 2019, accessed October 21, 2019 .
  5. ↑ FAS No. 1, January 7, 2018, p. 14.
personal data
SURNAME Flanagan, Shalane
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American long-distance runner
DATE OF BIRTH July 8, 1981
PLACE OF BIRTH Boulder (Colorado)