Lyudmila Petrova

Lyudmila Nikolaevna Petrova (Russian Людмила Николаевна Петрова, Eng. Transcription Lyudmila Petrova, born October 7, 1968) is a Russian long-distance runner who specializes in the marathon.

In 1998, she presented with 48:31 on a Russian record in the 15 - km road race, which still endures. The same year she finished fourth at the New York City Marathon, 2000, she won it.

At the World Athletics Championships in Edmonton in 2001, she was sixth in the 10,000 -meter run, in the following year she was third at the London Marathon in 2:22:33.

In 2003, she finished fifth in London and fourth in New York City. In a marathon of the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, she was eighth after she had previously been second in the London Marathon this year.

After she had a fifth place in 2005 in London and a sixth is in New York City, she presented in London in 2006 as runners-up with a Russian record to 2:21:29. Galina Bogomolowa interrupted him later in the year the Chicago Marathon, at the Eighth Petrova was.

2008 Fifth Petrova the London Marathon in 2:26:45. On November 2, 2008 at the age of 40, she won the New York City Marathon second place behind the Briton Paula Radcliffe and before the US -American Kara Goucher. With its running time of 2:25:43 surpassed the world record while the ladies over 40 that had been previously set by Priscilla Welch in 1987, by more than a minute.

Lyudmila Petrova has a competition weight of 43 kg at a height of 1.59 m.