Zakia Mrisho Mohamed (born February 19, 1984) is a Tanzanian long distance runner who specialises in track and road running. She represented her country in the 5000 metres at the 2008 Olympic Games and 2012 Olympic Games. Born in Singida, She attended her first major international athletics competition in 2003, taking part in the 3000 metres in which she finished sixth. She won the Cinque Mulini cross country meeting in 2004, becoming the first Tanzanian woman to do so. She was selected for the 2005 IAAF World Cross Country Championships and managed to finish in twentieth place in the long race. She came sixth in the 5000 m at the

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and third at the World Athletics Final (3000 m) a month later. She represented Tanzania at the 2006 Commonwealth Games, finishing eighth in the 5000 m final. At the

2007 IAAF World Cross Country Championships The 2007 IAAF World Cross Country Championships took place on March 24, 2007. The races were held at the Mombasa Golf Course in Mombasa, Kenya. Four races took place, one for men, women, junior men and junior women respectively. All races enco ...

she was 23rd overall but she was less successful on the track, failing to make it out of the 5000 m heats of the

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. The same fate awaited her at her first

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in Beijing the following year, although she did manage a fourth-place finish in the 3000 m at the

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as well as competing in the 5000 m event. She reached her first major global final in the next season at the

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, taking 15th place in the 5000 m. Mrisho was selected as one of three representatives for Africa in the women's 5000 m at the

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(along with

Vivian Cheruiyot Vivian Jepkemoi Cheruiyot (born 11 September 1983) is a Kenyan long-distance runner who specialises in track and cross country running. She represented Kenya at the Summer Olympics in 2000, 2008, 2012, and 2016, winning a silver medal at the 5 ...

and Sentayehu Ejigu and she finished in fifth place. She won the adidas Women's 5K in

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in September 2010, beating runner-up and defending champion Gladys Otero by a margin of seventeen seconds.Marofit take Prague 10Km
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Achievements

Personal bests

*1500 metres - 4:10.47 (2005) *3000 metres - 8:39.91 (2005) *5000 metres - 14:43.87 (2005) *10,000 metres - 32:20.47 (2010)

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* __NOTOC__ {{DEFAULTSORT:Mohamed, Zakia Mrisho 1984 births Living people People from Singida Region Tanzanian female long-distance runners Olympic athletes of Tanzania Athletes (track and field) at the 2008 Summer Olympics Athletes (track and field) at the 2006 Commonwealth Games Athletes (track and field) at the 2012 Summer Olympics Commonwealth Games competitors for Tanzania World Athletics Championships athletes for Tanzania