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Full name
  
Kate Harris-Smyth

Sport
  
Athletics

Nationality
  
Australia

Event(s)
  
Height
  
1.65 m (5 ft 5 in)

Name
  
Kate Smyth

Weight
  
50 kg (110 lb)


Kate Smyth Athlete Insight Kate Smyth

Born
  
22 September 1972 (age 51) (
1972-09-22
)

Kate Harris-Smyth (born September 22, 1972 in Cowra, New South Wales) is an Australian marathon runner. She set her personal best time of 2:28:51, by finishing second at the 2008 Nagano Olympic Commemorative Marathon in Japan.

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At age thirty-five, Smyth made her official debut for the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, where she competed in the women's marathon, along with her teammates Benita Johnson and Lisa Weightman. She successfully finished the race in forty-fourth place by fifteen seconds ahead of Spain's Yesenia Centeno, with a time of 2:36:10. She also ran in the marathon at the 2006 Commonwealth Games, coming in seventh place.

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