Isabellah Andersson Explained

Birth Name:Isabellah Moraa Amoro
Birth Date:1980 11, df=yes
Sport:Athletics
Event:Marathon

Isabellah Andersson (born Isabellah Moraa Amoro on 12 November 1980 in Kenya)[1] is a Swedish-Kenyan distance runner.[2] 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 record holder on 22 January 2010 when she placed fifth in the Dubai Marathon with a time of 2:26:52.[3] In the 2010 European Championship she originally finished 5th, but was promoted to third in 2012. 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.[4] [5] She ran at the 2011 Dubai Marathon and came in third, improving her record time to 2:23:41 hours.[6] At the 2011 World Championships, she came in seventh.[7] At the 2012 Summer Olympics, she finished eighteenth.[8]

She originally came to Sweden to learn more about the sport foot orienteering. There, she met Lars Andersson, a foot orienteering enthusiast and competitor.[9] The two married in October 2006 and have a daughter Beyoncé (born 2009), named after the American singer Beyoncé Knowles.[4] [10] [11]

On 10 April 2016, due to leg pain, she had to forfeit participating in the Rotterdam Marathon in the Netherlands. This, in turn, led to her missing the 2016 Olympic Summer Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.[12]

Achievements

Personal bests

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: 2012 Marathon Road : World Men . Arrs.net .
  2. http://www.live2run.com/MarathonGuide/news/stories/Sto_090527_1.html
  3. Web site: Gebrselassie Prevails For Third Time in Dubai Marathon . Letsrun.com . 22 January 2009.
  4. Web site: Hans Jansson hans.jansson . Siktar på tredje raka maratonsegern . DN.SE .
  5. Web site: Peter Wikström/TT . Lagat och Andersson snabbast i Stockholm Marathon . DN.SE . 5 June 2010.
  6. Butcher, Pat (21 January 2011). Barmasai and Mergia fight headwind to take Dubai Marathon wins. IAAF. Retrieved 21 January 2011.
  7. Web site: 13th IAAF World Championships in Athletics - Marathon - women. 27 August 2011. 8 January 2015. www.iaaf.org. IAAF.
  8. Web site: London 2012 - Women's Marathon. 8 January 2015. www.olympic.org. IOC.
  9. Web site: Lasse Mannheimer . Isabellah Anderssons raketkarriär mot nya höjder . DN.SE . 31 May 2008.
  10. http://www.universalsports.com/news/article/newsid=283135.html
  11. Web site: Artiklar - Mama . Mama.nu . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110724190706/http://www.mama.nu/artiklar/2009/arets-power-mama-isabellah-andersson/ . 24 July 2011 .
  12. Web site: Isabellah Andersson bröt – borta från OS. SVT Sport. Gustav Orbring. sv. 10 April 2016. 10 April 2016.
  13. Web site: Goteborg Half Marathon 2010 Results – Kiprono, Gobena win . Runinfinity.com . 22 May 2010.
  14. Web site: IFK Växjö friidrott . 4 June 2010 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20080611144622/http://www.ifkvaxjo.se/page.php?docid=229 . 11 June 2008 .
  15. http://www.marathon.se/news/article.cfm?NewsId=313496

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