Anne Audain

Anne Audain ( Frances Anne Audain, born Garrett, born November 1, 1955 in Auckland ) is a former New Zealand middle and long distance runner.

Career

Directly after her birth she was adopted. As a result of birth defects their foot bones were deformed; only after she had surgery at age 13, she could walk properly and running. Three years later, she ran over 1500 m, the time they would have qualified for the Olympic Games in Munich; However, it was not considered for the Olympic team because they were considered too young.

In 1973 she finished ninth at the World Cross Country Championships in Waregem and 1974 Sixth over 1500 m at the British Commonwealth Games in Christchurch. In the Cross Country World Cup 1975 in Rabat, she was tenth in the individual competition and won with the New Zealand team silver.

In 1976 she retired from about 800 m and 1500 m in the flow at the Olympic Games in Montreal. She launched three more times at the Cross Country World Cup: 1977 in Dusseldorf they finished ninth and won team bronze, 1979 in Limerick, she came in 14th place and in 1981 in Madrid on 27th place

After working for four years as an elementary school teacher, she moved in 1981 to the United States to become a professional athlete. Open your acceptance of prize money in road races led to a scandal due to the then applicable statutes amateur and a temporary ban by the New Zealand Association of Athletics Federations. However, the thus triggered discussion led to a reform of the law, so that she was again admitted at national and international championships and the world record over 5000 m of 15:13,2 minutes, they had set up on 15 March 1982 recognized. In the same year she won at the Commonwealth Games in Brisbane about 3000 m.

In 1983 she won the New York Mini 10K and finished fourth at the Chicago Marathon. The following year she was second in the präolympischen Marathon in February in Los Angeles, but did not reach the marathon of the 1984 Olympics the goal.

At the Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh in 1986, she won silver in the 10,000 m, and at the 1988 Olympics in Seoul, she came over the same distance to eleventh place.

In 1990, she was at the Commonwealth Games in Auckland Eleventh 10,000 m and second in the Twin Cities Marathon, 1991 Fifth at the Los Angeles Marathon.

Three times she was New Zealand champion in the 1500 m (1976, 1979, 1980 ), twice each over 800 m (1976, 1979), about 3000 m ( 1982, 1986 ) and in the 4- km road race (1972, 1973) and once each about 5000 m ( 1987) and 10000 m ( 1990).

In 1993 they called in their hometown Boise ( Idaho) the women's race Women's Fitness Celebration (now FitOne ) to life. In 1995, she was honored as a member of the British Empire ( MBE); In the same year she received the American nationality. In 2008 she was inducted into the Hall of Champions of Running USA, 2009 in the New Zealand Sports Hall of Fame.

Bests

  • 800 m: 2:04,05 min, February 16, 1980
  • 1500 m: 4:10,68 min, July 28, 1976 Montreal
  • 1 miles: 4:33,93 min, 15 January 1983 Christchurch
  • 3000 m: 8:45,53 min, October 4, 1982, Brisbane
  • 5000 m: 15:13,22 min, March 17, 1982 Auckland
  • 10,000 m: 31:53,31 min, July 28, 1986, Edinburgh
  • 10 - km road race: 31:45 min, May 16, 1982 Cleveland
  • 15 - km road race: 49:01 min, June 26, 1988, Portland
  • Half Marathon: 1:11:27 h, September 17, 1983 Manchester
  • Marathon: 2:31:41 h, 14 October 1990 Saint Paul

Publications

  • With John L. Parker Jr.: Uncommon Heart. Cedar Winds, 2000, ISBN 0915297280
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