Constantina Diţă

Constantina Diţă ( to May 2008, starting with the name of her then husband Tomescu, born January 23, 1970 in Turburea, Gorj County ) is a Romanian long-distance runner and Olympic gold medalist.

The first international success of the former handball player was winning the silver medal at the Cross Country Championships 1999 in Velenje. In a marathon, the World Athletics Championships in 1999 in Seville, she took the 19th place.

In a marathon, the 2001 World Championships she was ten. Shortly thereafter, they improved as the Fourth Tokyo International Women's Marathon their personal record to 2:26:39 h

At the European Athletics Championships in Munich in 2002, she took seventh place in the 10,000 -meter run. In the same year she finished second at the Amsterdam Marathon in 2:23:52 h 2003 followed a sixth place in the London Marathon in 2:23:43 hours, a fifth place finish at the World Half Marathon Championships in Vilamoura and a second place at the Chicago Marathon in 2:23:35 h

In a marathon, the 2004 Olympics in Athens she won though only the 20th place, but in the same year she won the Chicago Marathon in 2:23:44 h and was third at the London Marathon as well as in the World Half Marathon Championships in New Delhi.

In 2005, she posed as Second the London Marathon with 2:22:50 hours a Romanian record, gained a bronze medal in the marathon at the World Championships in Helsinki in 2005 and gold at the World Half Marathon Championships in Edmonton and improved as the Second Chicago Marathon its own record to 2:21:29 h

In the road race World Championships 2006 in Debrecen than 20 km, it won the silver medal and remained as the winner Lornah Kiplagat under the old world record. At the Chicago Marathon she finished fifth after they had struck an extreme pace and in the meantime conducted with more than two minutes ahead.

In 2007, she finished the London Marathon in third place.

In a marathon, the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, she moved to 20 kilometers of the competition of it and latched on to a lead of times more than a minute. The single-handedly brought her a gold medal and made it with 38 years to the oldest athlete ever in Olympic marathons was on the podium.

The runner with the nickname " Pusa " (pronounced Puscha ) is 1,65 m tall and weighs 48 kg. She lives with her son, born in 1995 in Boulder, Colorado, where she is coached by her former husband Valeriu Tomescu.