Not to be confused with Elana Meyers (bobsledder) or Elena Myers (motorcycle racer).
Elana Meyer
Medal record
Women's athletics
Representing South Africa
Olympic Games
1992 Barcelona
10,000 m
Commonwealth Games
1994 Victoria
10,000 m
All-Africa Games
1999 Johannesburg
5,000 m
African Championships
1992 Belle-Vue
1,500 m
1993 Durban
1,500 m
World Half Marathon Championships
1994 Oslo
Half-Marathon
1998 Uster
Half-Marathon
Elana Meyer, OIS, (born 10 October 1966) is a South African long-distance runner who won the silver medal at the 1992 Summer Olympics in the 10,000 metres event.
Meyer set the 15 kilometres road running African record of 46:57 minutes in November 1991 in Cape Town. The record was equalled by Ethiopia's Mestawet Tufa in 2008.[1] The record was beaten in 2009 by Tirunesh Dibaba, also from Ethiopia, who posted a new world record of 46:28 minutes.[2]
Meyer also held the half marathon African record (1:06:44 hours), set in January 1999 in Tokyo. The record was broken by Mary Keitany of Kenya at the 2009 IAAF World Half Marathon Championships by running the distance in 1:06:36 hours.[3]
She was the gold medallist at the 1994 IAAF World Half Marathon Championships and set world records in that event in 1991, 1997, 1998, and 1999. She also had several good placings in top level marathon races.
^IAAF: Area Outdoor Records – Women – AFRICA
^IAAF, 15 November 2009: Dibaba shatters 15Km World record in Nijmegen! – UPDATED
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S. bobsledder ElanaMeyers speaks out amid Lolo Jones uproar". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved January 25, 2014. "Bobsledder ElanaMeyers defends selection...
new African record, with the previous record of 1:06:44 hours set by ElanaMeyer of South Africa in 1999. Keitany also beat the previous Kenyan record...
Records Preceded by ElanaMeyer Women's Half marathon World record holder 19 March 1995 – 9 March 1997 Succeeded by ElanaMeyer Sporting positions Preceded by...
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Canada 8:47.22 10,000 metres details Derartu Tulu Ethiopia 31:06.02 ElanaMeyer South Africa 31:11.75 Lynn Jennings United States 31:19.89 100 metres...
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marathon World record holder 5 April 1987 – 18 May 1991 Succeeded by ElanaMeyer Awards Preceded by Birger Ruud Egebergs Ærespris 1992 Succeeded by Anita...
United States 38:53 2001 May 6 49,532 45,346 Dominic Kirui Kenya 34:30 ElanaMeyer South Africa 39:24 2000 May 7 50,401 45,538 Reuben Cheruiyot Kenya...
m event at the 1992 Barcelona Olympic Games. The race, where she and ElanaMeyer (South Africa) raced for lap after lap way ahead of the rest of the field...
2006 Meyer, John (16 March 2020). "Bolder Boulder postpones to fall; new date to be determined". The Denver Post. Retrieved 19 June 2020. Meyer, John...
Manuela Machado Portugal 2:25:09 4 Nicole Carroll Australia 2:25:52 5 ElanaMeyer South Africa 2:27:18 6 Taeko Terauchi Japan 2:28:31 7 Kerryn McCann...
33:58 Delilah Asiago Kenya 38:23 May 19, 1996 Thomas Osano Kenya 34:35 ElanaMeyer South Africa 38:56 May 18, 1997 Joseph Kimani Kenya 33:51 Jane Omoro...
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