Marleen Renders

Marleen Renders

Personal information
Born	(1968-12-24) 24 December 1968 Diest, Vlaams-Brabant, 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
Olympic finals	1988, 10,000 m, 21st 1996, Marathon, 25th 2000, Marathon, DNF
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
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.

Achievements

Year	Competition	Venue	Position	Event	Notes
Representing Belgium
1986	World Junior Championships	Athens, Greece	3rd	10,000m	33:59.36
1987	World Championships	Rome, Italy	12th	10,000 m	32:12.51
1988	Olympic Games	Seoul, South Korea	21st (h)	10,000 m	32:11.49 (h)
1994	European Championships	Helsinki, Finland	10th	10,000m	32:11.18
1995	Antwerp Marathon	Antwerp, Belgium	1st	Marathon	2:31:26
	Reims Marathon	Reims, France	3rd	Marathon	2:28:57
1996	Olympic Games	Atlanta, United States	25th	Marathon	2:36:27
	Berlin Marathon	Berlin, Germany	3rd	Marathon	2:27:42
1997	Rotterdam Marathon	Rotterdam, Netherlands	2nd	Marathon	2:25:56
	Berlin Marathon	Berlin, Germany	3rd	Marathon	2:26:18
1998	London Marathon	London, United Kingdom	4th	Marathon	2:27:30
	European Championships	Budapest, Hungary	5th	Marathon	2:29:43
	Berlin Marathon	Berlin, Germany	1st	Marathon	2:25:22
2000	Paris Marathon	Paris, France	1st	Marathon	2:23:43
	Olympic Games	Sydney, Australia	—	Marathon	DNF
2001	London Marathon	London, United Kingdom	11th	Marathon	2:28:31
	World Championships	Edmonton, Canada	18th	Marathon	2:33:25
	Amsterdam Marathon	Amsterdam, Netherlands	2nd	Marathon	2:29:31
2002	Paris Marathon	Paris, France	1st	Marathon	2:23:05
	European Championships	Munich, Germany	—	Marathon	DNF
2003	City-Pier-City Loop	The Hague, Netherlands	1st	Half Marathon	1:09:54
	Hamburg Marathon	Hamburg, Germany	4th	Marathon	2:28:31
2005	Frankfurt Marathon	Frankfurt, Germany	2nd	Marathon	2:26:26

External links

• (in Dutch) Vlaamse Atletiekliga (in Dutch)
• (in French) marathoninfo