Madeleine Pape

Madeleine Pape
Personal information
Nationality  Australia
Born (1984-02-24) 24 February 1984
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Height 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)
Weight 56 kg (123 lb)
Sport
Sport Athletics
Event(s) Middle distance running
Club Waverley Athletics Club
Coached by Terry McGrath
Achievements and titles
Personal best(s) 400 m: 52.68 (2009)
800 m: 1:59.92 (2008)
1500 m: 4:22.36 (2007)

Madeleine Pape (born February 24, 1984 in Melbourne, Victoria) is an Australian middle distance runner.[1] She set her personal best time of 1:59.92, by winning the women's 800 metres at the 2008 Sydney Athletics Grand Prix in Sydney, New South Wales.[2][3] She also won a gold medal in the same distance at the 2009 Summer Universiade in Belgrade, Serbia, finishing her time at 2:01.91.[4]

Pape represented Australia at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, where she competed for the women's 800 metres. She ran in the first heat against six other athletes, including Russia's Svetlana Klyuka, who nearly missed out of the medal podium in the final. She finished the race in sixth place by ninety-one hundredths of a second (0.91) behind Namibia's Agnes Samaria, with a time of 2:03.09. Pape, however, failed to advance into the semi-finals, as she placed twenty-ninth overall, and was ranked farther below three mandatory slots for the next round.[5]

References

  1. "Madeleine Pape". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 30 January 2013.
  2. McAsey, Jenny (18 February 2008). "Lewis finds form and new rivalry". The Australian. Retrieved 30 January 2013.
  3. Hurst, Mike (16 February 2008). "Vili, Lewis impress, Batman defeats Wariner at 200m - Sydney report". IAAF. Retrieved 30 January 2013.
  4. "Athletics Australia – News – Pape bags 800m gold – the World University Games in Belgrade". German Road Races. 10 July 2009. Retrieved 30 January 2013.
  5. "Women's 800m Round 1 – Heat 1". NBC Olympics. Retrieved 30 January 2013.


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