Ingrid Kristiansen
Ingrid Kristiansen (born Christensen, born March 21, 1956 in Trondheim ) is a Norwegian long-distance runner, who provided a number of world records in the 1980s caused a sensation.
At the World Athletics Championships 1987 in Rome she won the 10,000 meters. In the years 1986 and 1989 she won the Boston Marathon, in 1989 also the New York City Marathon. At the London Marathon in 1985 she put a world record ( 2:21:06 h), which had almost 13 years in hand, to him Tegla Loroupe broke the Rotterdam Marathon in 1998. Kristiansen took two more victories in London (1987 and 1988).
On the train she set three world records over 5000 meters and two in the 10,000 meters at the world road records over 10 km, 15 km, half marathon and marathon. She participated in the athletics competitions of the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles and in part in 1988 in Seoul. In 1984 she started on the marathon course and finished the race, after a long part of the leadership group, in the fast time of 2:27:34 h in fourth place. In 1988, she started on the 10,000 - meter course, but could as first runnings first 31:44,69 min with the final not finish successfully.
In 1986 and 1987 they won the election of Norway's Sportswoman of the Year, 1986 Morgenbladet gold medal.
Ingrid Kristiansen is currently a member of the IAAF Cross Country & Road Running Committee and Vice President of the Norwegian Association of runners.
Personal best
- 5000 m: 14:37,33 min, August 5, 1986, Stockholm
- 10,000 m: 30:13,74 min, July 5, 1986, Oslo
- 10 - km road race: 30:59 min, April 9, 1989, Boston
- 15 - km road race: 47:17 min, November 21, 1987, Monaco
- Half Marathon: 1:08:31 h, March 19, 1989, New Bedford
- Marathon: 2:21:06 h, April 21, 1985, London