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Kate Smyth | |
Fullname: | Kate Harris-Smyth |
Birth Date: | 22 September 1972 |
Birth Place: | Cowra, New South Wales, Australia |
Weight: | 500NaN0 |
Sport: | Athletics |
Event: | Marathon |
Club: | Glenhuntly Athletics Club |
Coach: | John Bowden and Shaun Creighton |
Nationals: | Australian Athletics National Championships, 10,000 mtrs, 1st -New Zealand National Championships 10,000mtrs |
Commonwealth Games: | Melbourne Commonwealth Games 2006- Melbourne, Australia |
Olympics: | 2008 Summer Olympics -Beijing, China |
Highestranking: | 1st- fastest time by a female marathoner in Australia in 2008 |
Pb: | Half-marathon: 1:13:08 (2007) Marathon: 2:28:51 (2008) |
Kate Harris-Smyth (born 22 September 1972 in Cowra, New South Wales) is an Australian marathon runner.[1] She set her personal best time of 2:28:51, by finishing second at the 2008 Nagano Olympic Commemorative Marathon in Japan.[2] [3]
At age thirty-five, Smyth made her official debut for the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, where she competed in the women's marathon, along with her teammates Benita Johnson and Lisa Weightman.[4] She also ran in the marathon at the 2006 Commonwealth Games, coming in seventh place after collapsing with heat stroke.