Full name Tarath Tabitha Tsatsa Height 1.58 m Nationality Zimbabwe Weight 44 kg | Sport Athletics Events Marathon Name Tabitha Tsatsa | |
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Born 18 September 1972 (age 51) ( 1972-09-18 ) Club Zimbabwe Republic Police Club Personal best(s) Half-marathon: 1:12:16 (2009)
Marathon: 2:29:20 (2008) | ||
Tarath Tabitha Tsatsa (born September 18, 1972) is a Zimbabwean marathon runner. She set both a national record and a personal best time of 2:29:20, by finishing fourth at the 2008 Dong-A Seoul International Marathon, held in Seoul, South Korea.
Tsatsa represented Zimbabwe at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, where she competed as a lone female athlete in the women's marathon. She successfully finished the race in forty-ninth place by two seconds ahead of Turkey's Bahar Doğan, with a time of 2:37:10.
In the women's race, Natalia Volgina from Russia won the race for the second time, after first winning it 11 years ago. She won it in a time of 3:38:38, followed in second by Tabitha Tsatsa in 3:39:57, with Charne Bosman third in 3:40:19. Soon after Natalie Volgina tested positive for the banned anabolic steroid metenolone. She was stripped of her title with 1st place shifting onto Tabitha Tsatsa.