Career Her personal best over the half marathon is 1:11:01 (run in Edmonton at the 2005 IAAF World Half Marathon Championships).
Achievements She won the Bronze medal over 10,000 metres at the 2006 European Championships in Athletics in Gothenburg, Sweden in a time of 30:32,72 minutes, a new personal best and the tenth-best time ever run by a European woman. She also won the 2006 Los Angeles Marathon in a time of 2:25,10 hours (personal best) and in 2005 the Paris Marathon in 2:27,01. She was the women"s 2007 Boston Marathon winner with a time of 2:29:18, and captured the 2008 Chicago Marathon title with a 2:27:17 time. Flotrack.com Before the 2007 Boston Marathon.