Marleen Renders

Marleen Renders
Personal information
Born (1968-12-24) 24 December 1968 (age 55)
Diest, Vlaams-Brabant, Belgium
Height1.63 m (5 ft 4 in)
Weight47 kg (104 lb; 7.4 st)
Sport
Country Belgium
ClubAV Toekomst
Achievements and titles
Olympic finals1988, 10,000 m, 21st
1996, Marathon, 25th
2000, Marathon, DNF
World finals1987, 10,000 m, 12th
1994, Half Marathon, 8th
1995, 10,000 m, 17th
1995, Half Marathon, 13th
1997, 10,000 m, DNF
1999, 10,000 m, 9th
2001, Marathon, 18th
2002, Half Marathon, 8th
Personal best(s)3000 m: 9:03.64
5000 m: 15:19.20
10,000 m: 31:03.60
Half Marathon: 1:08:56
Marathon: 2:23:05
Updated on 12-01-2013

Marleen Renders (born 24 December 1968, in Diest) is a retired female long-distance runner from Belgium, who represented her native country thrice at the Summer Olympics: in 1988, 1996 and 2000. In 1995 she won the Antwerp Marathon, in 1998 the Berlin Marathon, and she triumphed twice in the Paris Marathon in 2000 and 2002 (with a personal best of 2:23:05).

She was victorious at the Berlin Half Marathon in 1997 and 1998 and was the 2003 winner of the City-Pier-City Loop half marathon in the Hague.[1] She won the 20 km of Brussels nine times consecutively from 1996 to 2004, which included a course record run of 1:07:46 in 2002.[2]

Renders also competed in cross country running and won Belgium's 1996–97 Lotto Cross Cup series.[3]

  1. ^ City-Pier-City Half Marathon - List of winners
  2. ^ Civai, Franco (2010-06-03). Brussels 20 km. Association of Road Racing Statisticians. Retrieved on 2010-12-14.
  3. ^ Palmares Archived 2018-09-17 at the Wayback Machine (in French). Lotto Cross Cup. Retrieved on 2010-02-06.

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