Lucia Chandamale Explained

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Lucia Chandamale
Birth Date:18 June 1988
Birth Place:Lilongwe, Malawi
Weight:480NaN0
Sport:Athletics
Event:Long-distance running
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Lucia Chandamale (born June 18, 1988, in Lilongwe) is a Malawian athlete, who specialized in long-distance running.[1] She represented Malawi at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, and competed for the women's 5,000 metres. She ran in the first heat of the event, against sixteen other competitors, including Ethiopia's Tirunesh Dibaba, who won the gold medal in the final round. Chandamale finished and completed the race in fifteenth place, with a time of 16:44.09, nearly nine seconds slower than her personal best of 16:35.75.[2]

Chandamale also reached the final in the same category for a tenth-place finish at the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne, Australia, with a time of 17:10.46.

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Notes and References

  1. Lucia Chandamale. https://web.archive.org/web/20200418065130/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ch/lucia-chandamale-1.html. dead. 18 April 2020. 2 December 2012.
  2. Web site: Women's 5000m Round 1 – Heat 1 . . 2 December 2012 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20140104043820/http://www.2008.nbcolympics.com/trackandfield/resultsandschedules/rsc%3DATW050900/index.html . 4 January 2014 .