Nina Kathy Rillstone (born April 15, 1975, in
Brentwood, Essex
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) is a New Zealand long-distance and marathon runner. She is a national champion in both middle and long-distance running, and a national record holder for the half-marathon.
She set her personal best for the Half Marathon of 1:13:03 at the
2005 IAAF World Half Marathon Championships
The 14th IAAF World Half Marathon Championships were held in Edmonton, Canada on 1 October 2005. The competition was replaced by the World Road Running Championships in 2006 and 2007, but revived as IAAF World Half Marathon Championships in 2008.
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in
Edmonton, Alberta
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,
Canada
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. Her personal best in the marathon came during the
Nagano Marathon
The Nagano Olympic Commemorative Marathon ( ja, 長野オリンピック記念 長野マラソン) is an annual marathon road race which takes place in mid-April in Nagano, Japan. It is an IAAF Bronze Label Road Race competition. The Nagano Ma ...
in 2006, with a time of 2:29:46. Rillstone set a national record for the marathon at the
2007 IAAF World Championships
The 11th World Championships in Athletics, () under the auspices of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF), were held at Nagai Stadium in Osaka, Japan from 24 August to 2 September 2007. 200 of the IAAF's 212 member federat ...
in
Osaka, Japan
is a Cities designated by government ordinance of Japan, designated city in the Kansai region of Honshu in Japan. It is the capital of and most populous city in Osaka Prefecture, and the List of cities in Japan, third most populous city in Ja ...
, with a time of 2:33:58, finishing in thirteenth place.
Rillstone represented New Zealand for the
2008 Summer Olympics
The 2008 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXIX Olympiad () and also known as Beijing 2008 (), were an international multisport event held from 8 to 24 August 2008, in Beijing, China. A total of 10,942 athletes from 204 Na ...
in
Beijing
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, and competed in the
women's marathon. She ran and finished the race in sixteenth place, with a best possible time of 2:31:16, nearly two minutes short of her personal best set in Nagano.
References
External links
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NBC 2008 Olympics profileNZ Athletics Profile
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New Zealand female marathon runners
Living people
Olympic athletes for New Zealand
Athletes (track and field) at the 2008 Summer Olympics
1975 births
New Zealand female long-distance runners
New Zealand female middle-distance runners
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