Liz Yelling
UNITED KINGDOM
BIRTHDATE:
December 5, 1974
PERSONAL BEST:
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WORLD MARATHON MAJOR HIGHLIGHTS:
17Apr05 Flora London Marathon 14th 2:37:42
22Aug04 Olympic Games, Athens 25th 2:40:13
28Sep03 real,- Berlin Marathon 8th 2:30:19
CAREER NOTES:
Tall, fair-haired and a distance runner for the British club Bedford and County. The description fits both Liz Yelling and the world’s fastest marathon woman, Paula Radcliffe.
It was in Berlin three years ago that Yelling took her first steps as a marathoner. She had pursued the classic path of road and cross-country for club and country and went close to breaking 2:30 on her debut. After a tough international baptism at the Athens Olympics, the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne brought success. Matching eventual winner Kerryn McCann of Australia and Kenya’s Helen Cherono Koskei stride for stride until 25K, Yelling took the bronze.
She came within two minutes of her PR in Melbourne and was even closer at the Amsterdam Marathon in October, running 2:31:39.
Yelling is an accomplished 10,000 meters runner with a personal best of 31:45.14 at the Watford Olympic Trials in 2004. She placed fourth in the 2002 Commonwealth Games 10,000 meters.
In late March she won the Bath [England] Half-Marathon in a course record and career best 1:09:28.
HIGHLIGHTS:
15Oct06 Amsterdam Marathon 6th 2:31:39
19Mar06 Commonwealth Games, Melbourne 3rd 2:32:19
