Lilia Fisikovici

{{short description|Moldovan long-distance runner}}

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Lilia Fisikovici (born 29 March 1989) is a Moldovan long-distance runner who specialises in the half marathon and the marathon, and is currently the holder of the Moldovan national record for both events. She competed in the women's marathon event at the 2016 Summer Olympics.{{cite web |url=https://www.rio2016.com/en/athlete/lilia-fisikovici |title=Lilia Fisikowici |accessdate=15 August 2016 |work=Rio 2016 |archive-date=26 August 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160826091942/https://www.rio2016.com/en/athlete/lilia-fisikovici |url-status=dead }} She qualified to represent Moldova again at the 2020 Summer Olympics.{{Cite web|url=https://www.moldova.org/en/lilia-fisikovici-first-moldovan-athlete-qualify-tokyo-olympic-games/|title=Lilia Fisikovici is the first Moldovan athlete to qualify for the Tokyo Olympic Games – Moldova.org|last=Livadari|first=Arina|language=en-GB|access-date=1 March 2020}}

In 2018, at the Ljubljana Marathon held in the capital of Slovenia, she set a new Moldovan marathon record with a time of 2:28:26,{{Cite news|date=29 October 2018|title=Fisikovici breaks long-standing Moldovan record in Ljubljana Marathon|work=European Athletics|url=https://www.european-athletics.org/athletics-community/runners/news/article=fisikovici-breaks-long-standing-moldovan-record-ljubljana-marathon.html|url-status=live|access-date=25 June 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190414111613/https://www.european-athletics.org/athletics-community/runners/news/article=fisikovici-breaks-long-standing-moldovan-record-ljubljana-marathon.html|archive-date=14 April 2019}} a time she cut by exactly a minute the next year to 2:27.26 in the 2019 London Marathon. In 2020, she competed in the women's half marathon at the 2020 World Athletics Half Marathon Championships held in Gdynia, Poland, finishing in 1 hour, 13 minutes and 32 seconds.{{Cite web|title=Women's Half Marathon|url=https://media.aws.iaaf.org/competitiondocuments/pdf/7138821/AT-HMAR-W-f----.RS6.pdf?v=1284936714|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201017111945/https://media.aws.iaaf.org/competitiondocuments/pdf/7138821/AT-HMAR-W-f----.RS6.pdf?v=1284936714|archive-date=17 October 2020|access-date=17 October 2020|website=2020 World Athletics Half Marathon Championships}} She has won the Cracovia Marathon in Kraków Poland in 2018 and 2022. Over the years Fisikovici's greatest success as an elite athlete seems to have come mainly in the half marathon distance.