Catherine Chikwakwa

Agnes Catherine Chikwakwa (* June 24 1985 in Blantyre ) is a Malawian long-distance runner.

At the age of 15 years Chikwakwa participated at the Olympic Games in Sydney 2000. However, she dropped over 5000 m already out in the flow. Also at the World Athletics Championships 2001 in Edmonton she could not qualify for the final itself. At the 2002 Commonwealth Games, she was thirteenth.

In 2003 Chikwakwa at the World Cross Country Championships in Lausanne. On the long distance they came in 32nd place and on the short distance to 50th place. At the World Athletics Championships in Paris, she failed again over 5000 meters in the flow. Although she had already begun several years in the adult class, she was still eligible to start in 2004 as a junior. At the Track World Junior Championships in Grosseto, she won the silver medal behind the Ethiopian Meselech Melkamu in the 5000 -meter run. A month later, she ran over the same distance at the Olympic Games in Athens, but different just like a year later at the World Athletics Championships in Helsinki in advance of.

In the road race Chikwakwa get some minor notable successes. In 2003, she won the Tübingen city run and the Zurich New Year's run and the Darmstadt city run in which she successfully defended her title in 2004. In 2005 she won the 10 - kilometer run as part of the Dresden Marathon and for the second time at the Zurich New Year's run.

Bests

  • 3000 m: 9:11,89 min 25 July, 2006, Stockholm
  • 5000 m: 15:36,22 min July 13, 2004, Grosseto
  • 10,000 m: 35:03,6 min, July 2, 2005, Harare
Long-distance running 5000 metres 2001 World Championships in Athletics 2003 IAAF World Cross Country Championships 2004 World Junior Championships in Athletics 2005 World Championships in Athletics 3000 metres
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