Ingrid Kristiansen
Ingrid Kristiansen was born in Trondheim, Sør-Trøndelag, Norway on March 21st, 1956 and is the Runner. At the age of 68, Ingrid Kristiansen biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Ingrid Kristiansen (née Christensen, 1960) is a Norwegian former athlete.
During the 1980s, she was one of the best female long distance runners in the country.
She is a former world record holder in the 5000 meters, 10,000 meters, and marathon (at one point in time, she held those records simultaneously, the first person to do so) and was a World Champion in the track, roads, and cross-country.
Kristiansen was the first woman to win World titles on both land and sea.
She came in fourth place in the first women's Olympic marathon in 1984 Los Angeles.
She crashed out of the 10,000 meters final at the 1988 Seoul Olympics while leading.
She began her career as an elite cross country skier, winning numerous Norwegian titles and a European junior championship. She had a world record for ten thousand meters in 1986 but wasn't broken for 16 years.
The time in her 1985 London Marathon 2:21.06 was the fastest marathon time in 13 years.
Career
Kristiansen started her marathon career with a 2:30 to 2:40 average. She earned the bronze medal in the 3000 meters at the 1980 World Championships in Athletics and won the 1983 Houston Marathon in 2:33:27, a fact she didn't know until two months later. Gaute's first son was the first to be born before she began to improve. She finished fourth in the inaugural women's marathon in Los Angeles after winning the Houston Marathon and the London Marathon in 1984. On the 28th of June 1984 and the 10,000 m (30:59.14) at the Bislett Games in Oslo, she held two track world records in the 5,000 m (14:58.9) and the 10,000 m (30:59.14) categories.
In 1985, she won the London Marathon for the second time in a new world record of 2:21:43, which was previous best in the 1983 Boston Marathon by Joan Benoit. She lost to Benoit in the Chicago Marathon in 1985, running 2:23:05 for second place.
Kristiansen's best year on record was 1986. She set a new world record in the 10,000 m (30:13.3) after winning the Boston Marathon in hot weather, beating her own world record of 1984 by 46 seconds. She set a new 5,000-meter world record by running 14:38.89. She won a half marathon in Sandnes on April 5, 1987, but the course was not marked properly, and the world record for Joan Benoit stood unchanged. She won the Chicago Marathon, despite being hot and humid, finishing 2:27:08. She spent the year winning the 10,000 meters at the European Championships, posting her second fastest time ever (30:23.3) and almost 40 seconds ahead of the second place finisher.
Kristiansen attempted to smash her marathon world record in London in 1987, but she slowed in the second half and won in 2:22:48. Despite a leg injury, she won the first World Championships Women's 10,000 m in Rome. In 1988, she won the London Marathon for the fourth time, clocking in at 2:25:41. Despite a 1:09 first half, she slowed dramatically in the second half, but she was also five minutes ahead of any other woman. She was a strong favourite at the Olympic Games in Seoul, and even though she was the strong favourite, she fell out after seven laps with a fractured bone in her foot.
Despite the heat in the latter stages, she returned to racing in 1989, winning the Boston Marathon in 2:24:33. She decided not to participate in any track races this year, but she did win a few road races in Europe. She ran away with it from the start of the 1989 New York City Marathon, which she won in a time of 2:25:30. Despite winning the 1990 City-Pier-City Loop in The Hague, she was becoming less competitive as a result. She retired in 1993 and lives with her husband and two children in Oslo, Norway.
She won 14 out of a total of 26 marathons.