Lidia Simon
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| Medal record | |||
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 Lidia Simon |
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| Women's Athletics | |||
Competitor for  Romania |
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| Olympic Games | |||
| Silver | 2000 Sydney | Marathon | |
| World Championships | |||
| Gold | 2001 Edmonton | Marathon | |
| Bronze | 1997 Athens | Marathon | |
| Bronze | 1999 Sevilla | Marathon | |
Lidia Slavuteanu Simon (born September 4, 1973 in Targu Carbunesti) is a Romanian long-distance runner.
Competing in marathon, she won bronze medals at the World Championships in 1997 and 1999, before finally winning in Edmonton 2001. She won the Osaka Marathon in 1998, 1999 and 2000 and a bronze medal over 10000 metres at the 1998 European Championships.
At the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney she won the silver medal behind Naoko Takahashi, Japan but ahead of Joyce Chepchumba, Kenya. Between 2003 and early 2004, she took a break from running to concentrate on her baby. She returned to compete at the 2004 Summer Olympics, but she failed to finish the race. She is currently preparing for the 2008 Summer Olympics.
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Preceded by Katrin Dörre-Heinig |
Osaka Women's Marathon Winner 1998 – 2000 |
Succeeded by Yoko Shibui |
| World Champions in Women's Marathon |
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| 1983: Grete Waitz | 1987: Rosa Mota | 1991: Wanda Panfil | 1993: Junko Asari | 1995: Manuela Machado | 1997: Hiromi Suzuki | 1999: Jong Song-Ok | 2001: Lidia Simon | 2003: Catherine Ndereba | 2005: Paula Radcliffe| 2007: Catherine Ndereba |
