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Isabella Andersson (born 1997)
Isabellah Andersson (born Isabellah Moraa Amoro on 12 November 1980 in Kenya) is a Sweden, Swedish-Kenyan distance runner. She resides in Vilshult in Sweden, and since May 2009 is a Swedish citizen. She competes for the club Hässelby SK. Career Andersson became the new Swedish marathon Swedish records in athletics, record holder on 22 January 2010 when she placed fifth in the Dubai Marathon with a time of 2:26:52. On 31 October 2010, she finished fourth in the Frankfurt Marathon with a time of 2:25:10 hours, thus setting a new national record. She has won the Stockholm Marathon four times in a row. She ran at the 2011 Dubai Marathon and came in third, improving her record time to 2:23:41 hours. At the 2011 World Championships in Athletics, 2011 World Championships, she came in seventh. At the 2012 Summer Olympics, she finished eighteenth. She originally came to Sweden to learn more about the sport foot orienteering. There, she met Lars Andersson, a foot orienteering enthusiast ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stockholm Marathon
The Stockholm Marathon, known as the adidas Stockholm Marathon for sponsorship reasons, is an annual marathon arranged in Stockholm, Sweden, since 1979. It serves as the Swedish marathon championship race. At the 2009 Stockholm Marathon more than 18,500 participants (14,442 men and 4,385 women) were registered. The marathon is categorized as a Bronze Label Road Race by World Athletics. Course The marathon starts adjacent to the 1912 Olympic Stadium and consists of two loops around the city, finishing with a three-quarter lap around the tracks of the Olympic Stadium. Until and including the 2009 edition, the two loops around the city differed only slightly from each other, but the major part of the loops were identical. However, from 2010 the route was changed somewhat to make the loops more different from each other. Most notably, the first loop is now shorter, thus minimizing the number of trailing runners that the elite runners have to lap. Date The marathon normall ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
