Lisa Jane Weightman
Lisa Jane Weightman ( born January 16, 1979 in Melbourne) is an Australian long-distance runner.
In 2006 she was national champion in the 10,000 meters and second in the half marathon competition of the Gold Coast Marathon, which she won in the following year. In the road race World Championships, she came in 2006 in Debrecen number 37 and 2007 in Udine on 33rd
In 2008 she took at the World Cross Country Championships in Edinburgh on the 20th place and won with the Australian team bronze. After that, she was fifth at the Great Ireland Run, finishing at its debut at the 42,195 -kilometer distance the 13th place in the London Marathon. Her time of 2:32:32 h, she qualified for the marathon in the Olympic Games in Beijing, in which she broke in 2:34:16 h in 33rd place.
The following year she came at the World Cross Country Championships in Amman to 17th place and won again at the Gold Coast Marathon on the half marathon distance. In a marathon, the World Athletics Championships in Berlin she shared the race wisely and moved up, lying on No. 34 after half the distance to the finish in 18th place before and posted a time of 2:30:42 h
In 2010 she won the Nagano Marathon with over three minutes ahead and broke with a time of 2:28:48 hours for the first time two and a half hour mark.
Lisa Jane Weightman is 1.57 m tall and weighs 44 kg. She is coached by Dick Telford, Lisa Martin- Ondieki already supervised, and starts for the Preston Athletics Club. Professionally, she successfully worked for IBM as a business analyst. She lives with her husband Lachlan McArthur in Melbourne.
Personal Best
- 5000 m: 15:54,31 min 20 April, 2007, Eugene
- 10,000 m: 32:20,14 min 10 December, 2009, Melbourne
- 10 - km road race: 32:57 min, April 6, 2008 Dublin
- Half Marathon: 1:10:42 h, July 5, 2009 Gold Coast
- Marathon: 2:28:48 h 18 April, 2010, Nagano