Nina Rillstone Explained

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Nina Rillstone
Fullname:Nina Kathy Rillstone
Residence:Wanaka, New Zealand
Birth Date:15 April 1975
Birth Place:Brentwood, Essex
Weight:450NaN0
Sport:Athletics
Event:Marathon
Club:Pakuranga Athletics Club (NZL)
Coach:John Bowden
Pb:Marathon – 2:29:46
Half-marathon – 1:10:49
Show-Medals:yes

Nina Kathy Rillstone (born April 15, 1975, in Brentwood, Essex) is a New Zealand long-distance and marathon runner.[1] She is a national champion in both middle and long-distance running, and a national record holder for the half-marathon.

She set her personal best for the Half Marathon of 1:13:03 at the 2005 IAAF World Half Marathon Championships in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Her personal best in the marathon came during the Nagano Marathon in 2006, with a time of 2:29:46. Rillstone set a national record for the marathon at the 2007 IAAF World Championships in Osaka, Japan, with a time of 2:33:58, finishing in thirteenth place.[2]

Rillstone represented New Zealand for the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, and competed in the women's marathon. She ran and finished the race in sixteenth place, with a best possible time of 2:31:16, nearly two minutes short of her personal best set in Nagano.[3]

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Notes and References

  1. Nina Rillstone. https://web.archive.org/web/20200417230139/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ri/nina-rillstone-1.html. dead. 17 April 2020. 29 November 2012.
  2. News: Team on track at Osaka worlds. Stuff NZ. 4 September 2007. 27 November 2012.
  3. Web site: Women's Marathon. NBC Olympics. 27 November 2012. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20120821073356/http://www.2008.nbcolympics.com/trackandfield/resultsandschedules/rsc%3DATW099100/standings.html. 21 August 2012.