Nuța Olaru

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

Image:Nuța Olaru.jpg on May 25, 2009]]

Nuța Olaru (born August 28, 1970 in Orodel, Dolj) is a female long-distance runner originally from Romania, who became a naturalized United States citizen in November 2012. She specializes in the marathon race. She set her personal best (2:24:33) in the women's marathon in Chicago, IL on October 10, 2004.

She won the Big Sur Marathon in 2012, 2013 and 2014,[http://www.aimsworldrunning.org/results/2012_04.htm April 2012 AIMS Results] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120516065404/http://www.aimsworldrunning.org/results/2012_04.htm |date=2012-05-16 }}. AIMS. Retrieved on 2012-05-03. ran the 2013 Boston Marathon in 2:42:57 and the 2014 Boston Marathon in 2:37:29.

In April 2013, Olaru teamed up with the product development, ROLL Recovery, in Boulder, Colorado to help develop tools for runners.{{cite web |url=http://www.rollrecovery.com/about-us/ |title=About Us {{!}} ROLL Recovery |website=www.rollrecovery.com |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121129231741/http://www.rollrecovery.com/about-us/ |archive-date=2012-11-29}}

Achievements

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colspan="6"|Representing {{ROM}}
rowspan=2|1989

|World Cross Country Championships

|Stavanger, Norway

|73rd

|Junior race

|17:29

European Junior Championships

|Varaždin, Yugoslavia

|4th

|1500 metres

|4:14.82

rowspan=2|1991

|rowspan=2|World Women's Road Race Championships

|rowspan=2|Nieuwegein, Netherlands

|16th

|15 kilometres

|50:13

bgcolor=silver|2nd

|Team competition

|23 pts

1993

|Universiade

|Buffalo, United States

|4th

|Marathon

|2:43:22

1995

|Universiade

|Fukuoka, Japan

|5th

|Marathon

|3:03:28

1996

|World Half Marathon Championships

|Palma de Mallorca, Spain

|4th

|Half Marathon

|1:11:07

rowspan=2|1997

|World Championships

|Athens, Greece

|30th

|Marathon

|2:47:12

World Half Marathon Championships

|Košice, Slovakia

|5th

|Half Marathon

|1:09:52

rowspan=2|1998

|European Championships

|Budapest, Hungary

|34th

|Marathon

|2:42:44

World Half Marathon Championships

|Uster, Switzerland

| –

|Half Marathon

|DNF

rowspan=2|2000

|Lille Half Marathon

|Lille, France

|bgcolor=gold|1st

|Half Marathon

|1:11:08

World Half Marathon Championships

|Veracruz, Mexico

|41st

|Half Marathon

|1:20:00

rowspan=2|2001

|World Championships

|Edmonton, Canada

|15th

|Marathon

|2:33:05

World Half Marathon Championships

|Bristol, United Kingdom

|11th

|Half Marathon

|1:10:27

2002

|European Championships

|Munich, Germany

|—

|Marathon

|DNF

rowspan=2|2003

|World Championships

|Paris, France

|11th

|Marathon

|2:28:24

World Half Marathon Championships

|Vilamoura, Portugal

|23rd

|Half Marathon

|1:13:00

2004

|Olympic Games

|Athens, Greece

|13th

|Marathon

|2:34:45

rowspan=2|2005

|World Championships

|Helsinki, Finland

|—

|Marathon

|DNF

World Half Marathon Championships

|Edmonton, Canada

|8th

|Half marathon

|1:11:07

2007

|World Championships

|Osaka, Japan

|—

|Marathon

|DNF

rowspan=2|2009

|World Championships

|Berlin, Germany

|60th

|Marathon

|3:00:59

World Half Marathon Championships

|Birmingham, England

|48th

|Half marathon

|1:16:56

References