Nina Rillstone

Nina Rillstone

Personal information
Full name	Nina Kathy Rillstone
Nationality	New Zealand
Born	(1975-04-15) 15 April 1975 (age 49) Brentwood, Essex
Height	1.68 m (5 ft 6 in)
Weight	45 kg (99 lb)
Sport
Sport	Athletics
Event	Marathon
Club	Pakuranga Athletics Club (NZL)
Coached by	John Bowden
Achievements and titles
Personal best(s)	Marathon – 2:29:46 Half-marathon – 1:10:49

Nina Kathy Rillstone (born April 15, 1975, in Brentwood, Essex) is a New Zealand long-distance and marathon runner.^[1] She is a national champion in both middle and long-distance running, and a national record holder for the half-marathon.

She set her personal best for the Half Marathon of 1:13:03 at the 2005 IAAF World Half Marathon Championships in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Her personal best in the marathon came during the Nagano Marathon in 2006, with a time of 2:29:46. Rillstone set a national record for the marathon at the 2007 IAAF World Championships in Osaka, Japan, with a time of 2:33:58, finishing in thirteenth place.^[2]

Rillstone represented New Zealand for the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, and competed in the women's marathon. She ran and finished the race in sixteenth place, with a best possible time of 2:31:16, nearly two minutes short of her personal best set in Nagano.^[3]

References

External links

• Nina Rillstone at World Athletics
• NBC 2008 Olympics profile
• NZ Athletics Profile
• Nina Rillstone at the New Zealand Olympic Committee

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