Anita Weyermann
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Born | Wynigen, Switzerland | 8 December 1977||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.65 m (5 ft 5 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 50 kg (110 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Athletics | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Event(s) | 1500 metres, 3000 metres, 5000 metres, Cross country running | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Anita Weyermann (born 8 December 1977 in Wynigen) is a Swiss former middle- and long-distance runner.
She won the 1998 Eurocross meeting.[1] In the 1999 season she began with a win at the Belfast International Cross Country and went on to take the gold at the European Cross Country Championships.
Weyermann retired from professional sports on 5 March 2008. She works as a radio journalist for a Bernese local radio station, Radio BEO, and as a running trainer.[2]
Personal bests
[edit]- 800 metres: 2:02.73 min, 5 July 1998 in Frauenfeld
- 1500 metres: 3:58.20 min, 8 August 1998 in Monaco, Swiss record
- 3000 metres: 8:35.83 min, 7 July 1999 in Rome
- 5000 metres: 14:59.28 min, 5 June 1996 in Rome
References
[edit]- ^ Civai, Franco & Gasparovic, Juraj (2009-02-28). Eurocross 10.2 km (men) + 5.3 km (women). Association of Road Racing Statisticians. Retrieved on 2010-03-01.
- ^ Pfister, Reto (12 June 2010). "Die Läuferin mit dem Mikrofon". Berner Zeitung. Retrieved 12 June 2010.
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Categories:
- 1977 births
- Living people
- Swiss female middle-distance runners
- Swiss female long-distance runners
- Olympic athletes for Switzerland
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1996 Summer Olympics
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2000 Summer Olympics
- World Athletics Championships athletes for Switzerland
- World Athletics Championships medalists
- European Athletics Championships medalists
- European Cross Country Championships winners
- People from Emmental District
- Sportspeople from the canton of Bern
- Swiss athletics biography stubs