Justine Nahimana
Justine Nahimana (born 6 August 1979) is a Burundian athlete who specialized in long-distance running. She was the first woman to represent Burundi at the Olympics. At the age of 16, Nahimana was the only female competitor from Burundi to compete at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta when she entered the 10000 metres, she finished her heat in 18th place so didn't qualify for the final. In 1997, she competed in the 1997 World Championships in Athletics in Athens, where she came 18th again in her heat in the 5000 metres The 5000 metres or 5000-metre run is a common long-distance running event in track and field, approximately equivalent to or . It is one of the track events in the Olympic Games and the World Championships in Athletics, run over laps of a stan ... and didn't reach the final. References 1979 births Living people Burundian female long-distance runners Athletes (track and field) at the 1996 Summer Olympics Olympic athletes for Burundi 20th-century Buru ...
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Burundians
Burundi (, ), officially the Republic of Burundi ( rn, Repuburika y’Uburundi ; Swahili: ''Jamuhuri ya Burundi''; French: ''République du Burundi'' ), is a landlocked country in the Great Rift Valley at the junction between the African Great Lakes region and East Africa. It is bordered by Rwanda to the north, Tanzania to the east and southeast, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the west; Lake Tanganyika lies along its southwestern border. The capital cities are Gitega and Bujumbura, the latter being the country's largest city. The Twa, Hutu and Tutsi peoples have lived in Burundi for at least 500 years. For more than 200 of those years, Burundi was an independent kingdom, until the beginning of the 20th century, when it became a German colony. After the First World War and Germany's defeat, the League of Nations "mandated" the territory to Belgium. After the Second World War, this transformed into a United Nations Trust Territory. Both Germans and Belgians ruled B ...
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