Marleen Renders (born 24 December 1968, in Diest) is a retired female long-distance runner from Belgium, who represented her native country thrice at the Summer Olympics: in 1988, 1996 and 2000. In 1995 she won the Antwerp Marathon, in 1998 the Berlin Marathon, and she triumphed twice in the Paris Marathon in 2000 and 2002 (with a personal best of 2:23:05).

She was victorious at the Berlin Half Marathon in 1997 and 1998 and was the 2003 winner of the City-Pier-City Loop half marathon in the Hague. She won the 20 km of Brussels nine times consecutively from 1996 to 2004, which included a course record run of 1:07:46 in 2002.

Renders also competed in cross country running and won Belgium's 1996–97 Lotto Cross Cup series.

Achievements

YearCompetitionVenuePositionEventNotes
Representing Belgium
1986World Junior ChampionshipsAthens, Greece3rd10,000m33:59.36
1987World ChampionshipsRome, Italy12th10,000 m32:12.51
1988Olympic GamesSeoul, South Korea21st (h)10,000 m32:11.49 (h)
1994European ChampionshipsHelsinki, Finland10th10,000m32:11.18
1995Antwerp MarathonAntwerp, Belgium1stMarathon2:31:26
Reims MarathonReims, France3rdMarathon2:28:57
1996Olympic GamesAtlanta, United States25thMarathon2:36:27
Berlin MarathonBerlin, Germany3rdMarathon2:27:42
1997Rotterdam MarathonRotterdam, Netherlands2ndMarathon2:25:56
Berlin MarathonBerlin, Germany3rdMarathon2:26:18
1998London MarathonLondon, United Kingdom4thMarathon2:27:30
European ChampionshipsBudapest, Hungary5thMarathon2:29:43
Berlin MarathonBerlin, Germany1stMarathon2:25:22
2000Paris MarathonParis, France1stMarathon2:23:43
Olympic GamesSydney, AustraliaMarathonDNF
2001London MarathonLondon, United Kingdom11thMarathon2:28:31
World ChampionshipsEdmonton, Canada18thMarathon2:33:25
Amsterdam MarathonAmsterdam, Netherlands2ndMarathon2:29:31
2002Paris MarathonParis, France1stMarathon2:23:05
European ChampionshipsMunich, GermanyMarathonDNF
2003City-Pier-City LoopThe Hague, Netherlands1stHalf Marathon1:09:54
Hamburg MarathonHamburg, Germany4thMarathon2:28:31
2005Frankfurt MarathonFrankfurt, Germany2ndMarathon2:26:26

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Sporting positions
Preceded byKenya Hellen KimaiyoZevenheuvelenloop Women's Winner (15km) 1996Succeeded byRepublic of Ireland Catherina McKiernan