Marleen Renders
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Born |
24 December 1968 Diest, Limburg, Belgium |
| Height | 1.63 m (5 ft 4 in) |
| Weight | 47 kg (104 lb; 7.4 st) |
| Sport | |
| Country |
 Belgium
|
| Club | AV Toekomst |
| Achievements and titles | |
| World finals | 1987, 10,000 m, 12th 1994, Half Marathon, 8th 1995, 10,000 m, 17th 1995, Half Marathon, 13th 1997, 10,000 m, DNF 1999, 10,000 m, 9th 2001, Marathon, 18th 2002, Half Marathon, 8th |
| Olympic finals | 1988, 10,000 m, 21st 1996, Marathon, 25th 2000, Marathon, DNF |
| Personal best(s) | 3000 m: 9:03.64 5000 m: 15:19.20 10,000 m: 31:03.60 Half Marathon: 1:08:56 Marathon: 2:23:05 |
| Updated on 12-01-2013. | |
Marleen Renders (born 24 December 1968, in Diest) is a retired female long-distance runner from Belgium, who represented her native country thrice at the Summer Olympics: in 1988, 1996 and 2000. In 1995 she won the Antwerp Marathon, in 1998 the Berlin Marathon, and she triumphed twice in the Paris Marathon in 2000 and 2002 (with a personal best of 2:23:05).
She was victorious at the Berlin Half Marathon in 1997 and 1998 and was the 2003 winner of the City-Pier-City Loop half marathon in the Hague. She won the 20 km of Brussels nine times consecutively from 1996 to 2004, which included a course record run of 1:07:46 in 2002.
Renders also competed in cross country running and won Belgium's 1996–97 Lotto Cross Cup series.
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