Constantina tomescu biography for kids


Summer olympics

European championships.

A Brief Chat With Constantina Tomescu-Dita



Constantina Tomescu-Dita of Romania, 38, the reigning women's Olympic marathon champion, won the 2004 Chicago Marathon in 2:23:45 and set a personal best and a Romanian record of 2:21:30 with a second-place finish in Chicago in 2005.

She was also second in London in 2005 in 2:22:50 and third in 2007 in 2:23:55. Tomescu-Dita was the bronze medalist at the 2005 World Championships in Helsinki in 2:23:19. She won the 2005 World Half-Marathon Championships in 1:09:17 (her half-marathon best is 1:08:10).

Constantina tomescu biography for kids

  • Summer olympics
  • European championships
  • Summer olympics
  • World road running championships

    • In 2007, she was second at the Sendai International Half-Marathon in 1:10:24. Valeriu Tomescu is her ex-husband and coach; they have a son, Raphael, age 12. Tomescu-Dita has homes in Erie, Colorado (near Boulder) and in Targu-jiu, Romania.



    Even when you've prepared yourself well, there's no guarantee how well you'll feel on the morning of a marathon. When you got up that morning in Beijing, did you feel as good as you wanted to and did