Restituta Joseph
Restituta Joseph ( Restituta Joseph Kemi, born July 30, 1971 in Singida ) is a Tanzanian middle and long distance runner.
She took part in three Olympic Games. In Atlanta in 1996, she started in the 800 -meter run, however, different in the preliminary round of. Upon further Olympic participation - in Sydney in 2000 in the 10,000 -meter run and 2004, in Athens in 5000 -meter run - they could not qualify for the final itself.
Joseph 's international breakthrough came in the late 1990s in cross-country running. 1998 and 1999, they were each fifth on the short distance at the IAAF World Cross Country Championships. At the World Athletics Championships in 1999 in Seville then finished thirteenth place in the 10,000 -meter run.
However, their greatest successes they had successful in road races. In 1997 and 1999 she won the Corrida de Langueux. In 2000, she won the 10 -kilometer race of the Paderborn Easter Run and the Malmö Half Marathon. She was third at Tilburg Ladies Run 10K and won the Great South Run and the Zurich New Year's run. The following year, she was the London Marathon as a pace -maker worked ( and finished the race in 2:43:52 h), triumphed at the Darmstadt city run and again at the Great South Run and finished at the World Half Marathon Championships in 2001 in Bristol the fifteenth place. In 2002 she won the Montferland Run, and in 2003 she won within a week at the Dam tot Damloop and at the Route du Vin. In 2005, she was second in the Portugal Half Marathon.
Restituta Joseph is 1,64 m tall and weighs 56 kg.
Personal Best
- 800 m: 2:08,31 min, July 26, 1996, Atlanta
- 1500 m: 4:10,01 min, 13 June 2001 Kassel
- 3000 m: 8:44,28 min, July 20, 2001, Monaco Hall: 8:51,23 min, February 2, 2003, Stuttgart ( Tanzanian record )
- Hall: 15:04,73 min, February 5, 2003, Dortmund ( Tanzanian record )