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She took part in the Chiba Ekiden road relay competition the following year and finished ninth.
She took part in the Chiba Ekiden road relay competition the following year and finished ninth.
She represented Australia in the marathon at the 2008 Summer Olympics, the 2012 Summer Olympics and the 2009 World Championships in Athletics. She has also competed at the IAAF World Road Running Championships and the IAAF World Cross Country Championships, winning a team bronze in the latter competition in 2008. Weightman started out as a track runner but had her first success in cross country running, winning the under-23 section of the national championships in 2003.
Her first international championships appearance was at the 2006 IAAF World Road Running Championships where she placed thirty-seventh overall.
Weightman ended the year by finishing second in the 10,000 metres at the Zatopek Classic behind New Zealander Jessica Ruthe. She represented Australia twice in 2007: taking forty-second place at the 2007 IAAF World Cross Country Championships and thirty-third at the 2007 IAAF World Road Running Championships.
She made her marathon debut soon afterwards, finishing thirteenth in the women"s race with a time of 2:32:32. This performance gained her selection for the women"s marathon race at the 2008 Summer Olympics, where she finished thirty-third with a time of 2:34:16, the second best Australian performance after Johnson.
Weightman improved her best world cross country performance at the 2009 IAAF World Cross Country Championships, finishing seventeenth and heading the Australian team to seventh place in the rankings.
She competed at her first World Championships in Athletics later that season as Australia"s only participant in the women"s marathon. She placed eighteenth overall and set a new personal best over the distance with a time of 2:30:42. She improved further in the marathon at the start of the following year, dominating the Nagano Olympic Commemorative Marathon from the 15 km mark to the finish.
She was selected for the event at the 2010 Commonwealth Games in New Delhi.
At the 2012 Summer Olympics, she finished in 17th place. All information taken from IAAF profile.