Lidia Șimon

Lidia Şimon (born Slavuteanu; born September 4, 1973 in Târgu Carbunesti, Gorj County ) is a Romanian long-distance runner who in 2000 won the Olympic silver medal in the marathon.

She was tenth in the marathon of the European Athletics Championships in Helsinki in 1994 and later won in the Lyon Marathon. In the World Half Marathon Championships, she won in 1996 in Palma de Mallorca silver, 1997 in Košice and 1998 in Uster bronze. At the World Athletics Championships in 1997 in Edmonton and at the 1999 World Championships in Seville, she won the bronze medal in the marathon. In the 10,000 - meter race, she was at the European Championships 1998 in Budapest third in her personal best time of 31:32,64. In 1998 and 1999 she won the Osaka Women's Marathon.

2000 was their most successful year so far. First, they won again the Osaka Women 's Marathon in her personal best of 2:22:54, then was second in the London Marathon and finally took 2nd place at the Marathon of the Olympic Games in Sydney behind Naoko Takahashi (JPN ) and before Joyce Chepchumba (KEN ). She was third in the World Half Marathon Championships in Veracruz end of the season.

In a marathon, the 2001 World Championships in Edmonton, they won the title in a dramatic final against Reiko Tosa (JPN ) and Svetlana Zakharova (RUS ). Earlier this year, she finished fourth at the London Marathon.

In 2004, she finished second at the Vienna City Marathon and 2005, second in the Nagano Marathon.

The 2007 season started for them with a sixth place at the Osaka Women's Marathon. Also in Osaka it was the marathon of the World Championships in Athletics 2007 Fifth resulting in the best European.

Lidia Şimon is 1.57 m tall and weighs 44 kg. She is married and has a son.