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2008 IAAF World Cross Country Championships – Senior Women's Race
The Senior women's race at the 2008 IAAF World Cross Country Championships was held at the Holyrood Park in Edinburgh, United Kingdom, on March 30, 2008. Reports of the event were given in ''The New York Times'', in the ''Herald'', and for the IAAF. Complete results for individuals, and for teams were published. Race results Senior women's race (7.905 km) Individual Teams *Note: Athletes in parentheses did not score for the team result. Participation According to an unofficial count, 95 athletes from 29 countries participated in the Senior women's race. This is in agreement with the official numbers as published. The announced athletes from , , and did not show. * (1) * (6) * (1) * (2) * (4) * (5) * (1) * (2) * (1) * (5) * (6) * (2) * (1) * (1) * (6) * (2) * (6) * (6) * (1) * (1) * (6) * (1) * (6) * (3) * (5) * (1) * (6) * (6) * (1) See also * 2008 IAAF World Cross Country Championships – Senior men's race * 2008 IAAF World Cross Country Championships ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
IAAF
World Athletics, formerly known as the International Amateur Athletic Federation (from 1912 to 2001) and International Association of Athletics Federations (from 2001 to 2019, both abbreviated as the IAAF) is the international governing body for the sport of athletics, covering track and field, cross country running, road running, race walking, mountain running, and ultra running. Included in its charge are the standardization of rules and regulations for the sports, certification of athletic facilities, recognition and management of world records, and the organisation and sanctioning of athletics competitions, including the World Athletics Championships. The organisation's president is Sebastian Coe of the United Kingdom, who was elected in 2015 and re-elected unopposed in 2019 for a further four years. World Athletics suspended the Russian Athletics Federation (RusAF) from World Athletics starting in 2015, for eight years, due to doping violations, making it ineligible to hos ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margaret Wangari Muriuki
Margaret Wangari Muriuki (born 21 March 1986) is a Kenyan professional long and middle distance runner. She shared in the team gold medal at the 2010 IAAF World Cross Country Championships. Individually, she won medals at the African Cross Country Championships and the African Championships in Athletics (1500 m) in 2012. She initially started out as a 1500 metres runner and came seventh in that event at the 2007 All-Africa Games. She was the winner of the 2008 Cross de Atapuerca and went on to finish in eighth place at the IAAF World Cross Country Championships that year. She won the 2009 Lotto Cross Cup de Hannut cross country race in 2009. Muriuki placed sixth at the 2010 IAAF World Cross Country Championships, which helped the Kenyan women to the world team title. She was the runner-up at the 2012 African Cross Country Championships behind teammate Joyce Chepkirui, both of whom shared the team title. A week later she took third place at the Lisbon Half Marathon, finishing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hayley Yelling
Hayley Higham (born 3 January 1974, in Dorchester) is a British runner. She is the sister-in-law of fellow British runner Liz Yelling. She works as a Maths teacher at Sir William Borlase's Grammar School in Marlow, Buckinghamshire and runs for the Windsor, Slough, Eton and Hounslow Athletic Club. She has competed for England in the Commonwealth Games and for Great Britain in a number of competitions. In December 2004 she won the European Cross Country Championship in Heringsdorf. In December 2009 she won the European Cross Country Championship in Dublin after coming out of retirement from competitive running. She followed this up a month later by coming fourth in the 2010 International Edinburgh Cross Country, fourteen seconds after winner Tirunesh Dibaba over the freezing 5.8 kilometre course. Career highlights ;British National Championships :2002 - 1st, 5,000 m :2003 - 1st, 10,000 m :2003 - 1st, 5,000 m :2006 - 1st, 5,000 m ;Other competitions :2004 - 1st, European C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lisa Jane Weightman
Lisa Jane Weightman (born 16 January 1979) is an Australian long distance runner and four time Olympian who specializes in the marathon event. At the 2020 Summer Olympics, 2020 Tokyo Olympics she came 26th in the Women's marathon with a time of 2:34.19, 7 minutes behind the eventual winner, Peres Jepchirchir. Weightman represented Australia in the marathon at the 2008 Summer Olympics, the 2012 Summer Olympics and the 2009 World Championships in Athletics. She won her first marathon race in 2010, setting a personal best time of 2:28:48 at the Nagano Olympic Commemorative Marathon. She has also competed at the IAAF World Road Running Championships and the IAAF World Cross Country Championships, winning a team bronze in the latter competition in 2008. Career Weightman started out as a track runner but had her first success in cross country running, winning the under-23 section of the national championships in 2003. She took part in the Chiba Ekiden Relay race, road relay competit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saadia Bourgailh-Haddioui
Saʻadiah ben Yosef Gaon ( ar, سعيد بن يوسف الفيومي ''Saʻīd bin Yūsuf al-Fayyūmi''; he, סַעֲדְיָה בֶּן יוֹסֵף אַלְפַיּוּמִי גָּאוֹן ''Saʿăḏyāh ben Yōsēf al-Fayyūmī Gāʾōn''; alternative English names: Rabbeinu Sa'adiah Gaon ("our Rabbi heSaadia Gaon"), often abbreviated RSG (RaSaG); Saadia b. Joseph; Saadia ben Joseph; Saadia ben Joseph of Faym; or Saadia ben Joseph Al-Fayyumi; 882/892 – 942) was a prominent rabbi, gaon, Jewish philosopher, and exegete who was active in the Abbasid Caliphate. Saadia is the first important rabbinic figure to write extensively in Judeo-Arabic. Known for his works on Hebrew linguistics, Halakha, and Jewish philosophy, he was a practitioner of the philosophical school known as the "Jewish Kalam". In this capacity, his philosophical work '' The Book of Beliefs and Opinions'' represents the first systematic attempt to integrate Jewish theology with components of ancient Greek ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emily Brown (athlete) , Australian actress
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Emily Brown, or Emilie Brown may refer to: * Emilie Brown, also known as Emily Brown, American director, producer and voice actress * Emily Brown Portwig (1896–1960), American clubwoman and pharmacist * Emily Sophie Brown (1881–1985), American politician * Emily Brown (ice hockey), American ice hockey player See also * Emil Brown, American baseball player * Emily Browning Emily Jane Browning . Celebritywonder, retrieved 30 June 2011 (born 7 December 1988 [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kareema Jasim
Kareema Saleh Jasim (born 18 February 1988) is a Kenyan-born Bahraini professional long-distance runner who competes in distances ranging from 3000 metres to the half marathon, as well as the steeplechase. She is the Bahraini national record holder in the 10,000 m and steeplechase. Jasim rose to prominence with a 10,000 m silver medal at the 2006 Asian Games and then won both the long-distance events at the 2007 Asian Athletics Championships. She is a two-time medallist at the Military World Games (5000 m) and the Pan Arab Games (half marathon). She is a three-time participant at the IAAF World Cross Country Championships and was runner-up at the Asian Cross Country Championships in 2007. Career Born in Kenya, she began competing for Bahrain in 2005. She made her international debut at that year's Arab Athletics Championships, taking the 5000 metres bronze medal before going on to win both the 10,000 metres and half marathon events. Her time of 34:45.47 minutes fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aselefech Mergia
Aselefech Mergia Medessa ( Oromo: ''Asallafach Margaa Mardaasaa''; Amharic: አሰለፈች መርጊያ; born 23 January 1985) is an Ethiopian long-distance runner who competes in the marathon. She was a bronze medallist in the event at the 2009 World Championships in Athletics. She is a two-time winner of the Dubai Marathon and has finished in the top three at the Paris and London Marathons. She was retrospectively confirmed as the winner of the 2010 London Marathon after the top two were disqualified. Her personal best of 2:19:31 hours is a former Ethiopian record for the distance and places her within the top ten of all-time. Career She began taking part in professional road races in 2006, starting with a seventh-place finish at the Delhi Half Marathon. She won the Plymouth Half Marathon in 2007, finishing with a time of 1:14:50. She was second in the women's 10K in Glasgow, Scotland, finishing behind Vivian Cheruiyot but setting a personal best of 32:19 for the distance. A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liz Yelling
Elizabeth Anne Yelling (née Talbot; born 5 December 1974, Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire) is a British long-distance runner currently based in Poole, Dorset. She is the sister-in-law of fellow British runner Hayley Yelling through her marriage to steeplechaser Martin Yelling and is the former training partner of Paula Radcliffe. Yelling has taken part in the marathon at two summer Olympic Games; she finished 25th at Athens 2004 and 26th at Beijing 2008. Yelling won the bronze medal in the 2006 Commonwealth Games marathon. She also holds the women's course record for: the Bath Half Marathon with a time of 69 minutes 28 seconds set in 2007; and the Reading Half Marathon The Reading Half Marathon (currently known as the Sage Reading Half Marathon for sponsorship reasons) is a half marathon road running event held on the streets of the English town of Reading, first held in 1983. The race is normally held on a Su ... in 69 minutes 35 seconds, set in 2008. Achievements *Al ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Koren Jelela
Koren Jelela, also known as ''Koren Jelila Yal'', (born 18 January 1987 in Shewa) is an Ethiopian long-distance runner. Career At the 2007 World Cross Country Championships she finished nineteenth in the senior race. With four Ethiopian runners ahead of her she missed out for a place on the victorious Ethiopian team. The same thing happened in 2008, when Jelela finished fourteenth individually. She was less successful at the 2009 edition, as she finished in 30th place. She chose to move away from cross country running and switch her focus to the road. On her debut over the marathon distance at the Venice Marathon in 2009, she finished as the runner-up with a time of 2:28:41 hours, second to veteran Kenyan athlete Anne Kosgei. That November she entered the Great Ethiopian Run held in Addis Ababa and won the 10 km race with a course record time of 33:03 minutes. She competed at the RAK Half Marathon the following February and made the top ten with a run of 1:10:52. She was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Asmae Leghzaoui
Asmae Leghzaoui ( ar, أسماء لغزاوي; born August 30, 1976) is a Moroccan middle-distance runner. She is a two-time Olympian for Morocco. Biography In 1999, Leghzaoui made a running breakthrough by improving her 3000 metres personal best by a minute and breaking the World record for the 10K road race. She was seventh in the women's short race at the 1999 IAAF World Cross Country Championships, leading the Moroccans to the bronze medal in the team competition. On the track, she ran in the 10,000 metres at the 1999 World Championships in Athletics, but failed to finish the race. In 2000, she won the Cinque Mulini cross country meet and took the 5000 m track title at the 2000 African Championships in Athletics later that year. She won the gold medal in the 10,000 metres and a silver in the 5000 m at the 2001 Mediterranean Games. She represented Morocco at the 2001 World Championships in Athletics and came seventh in the 10,000 m final. She won the New Yo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lineth Chepkurui
Lineth Chepkurui (born 23 February 1988 in Bomet) is a Kenyan long distance runner. At the 2008 IAAF World Cross Country Championships, 2008 World Cross Country Championships Chepkurui finished eleventh in the individual race, however this was not enough to be a part of the Kenyan team, who won silver medals in the team competition. She won her third consecutive Lilac Bloomsday Run in 2010, running a world's best time over 12 km with her course record run of 38:10. Chepkurui is a two-time champion of the Bay to Breakers. In 2010, her time of 38:07 was a women's course record. She also set a course record at the Beach to Beacon 10K, knocking 26 seconds off the former record to win with a time of 31:00 minutes. She ran at the Falmouth Road Race two weeks later, but was beaten into second place by Wude Ayalew. She entered the Rock 'n' Roll Philadelphia Half Marathon in September and finished as runner-up with a personal best of 1:07:46, two seconds behind Meseret Defar. Chepkuru ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
