Camille Buscomb

Camille Buscomb
Personal information
Nationality New Zealand
Born (1990-07-11) 11 July 1990
Hamilton, New Zealand[1]
Education University of Waikato
Height 1.64 m (5 ft 5 in)
Weight 51 kg (112 lb)
Sport
Sport Long-distance running
Event(s) 10,000 m, 5,000 m, 1500 m
Coached by Nick Bideau

Camille Buscomb (born 11 July 1990) is a New Zealand long distance runner.[2]

School and US college

Buscomb attended St Peter's School in Cambridge, New Zealand, and was identified as a rising star during her time there. She competed over 1500m in the World Youth Championships in 2007 and the 2008 Commonwealth Youth Games.[3]

From 2009 she spent two and a half years on an athletics scholarship at Purdue University in Indiana, USA. She had a series of coaches and never improved her track times while in America.[4] She eventually transferred her studies from Purdue to the University of Waikato in New Zealand, where she was offered a Hillary Scholarship in 2015.[5]

Career

After returning to New Zealand, Buscomb bettered all of her personal best times - her first improvements since she was 16. In 2012 she won her first national title, over 3000 metres, and came second in New Zealand's 800m championship.[4][6] The next year she won national gold over 10km and 3000m, and silver over 1500m.[6]

Having been a 1500m specialist, Buscomb began concentrating on the 5000m distance in 2014, setting a series of personal bests but missing the qualification mark for that year's Commonwealth Games.[7] She was New Zealand's 8km cross-country champion that year, and also defended her 10km road racing title from 2013.[8][9] On track she retained her 10km national title and added 5000m as well. She was third over 1500m at the national championships.[6]

In 2015 she was the 5000m silver medalist at the World University Games.[3][10] That September she claimed her third consecutive national 10km road championship.[11] She won a second consecutive 5000m national title, and improved her 1500m standing to second place.[6] At the end of 2015 she won half marathons in Hamilton and Auckland, having had a cyst removed from her jaw less than two months beforehand. Her efforts to qualify for the 2016 Olympics were unsuccessful, and affected by her slow recovery from that surgery ("I came back too soon and it took me a long time to realise what a toll the surgery had taken on my body," she said).[12]

She was New Zealand's 5000m champion again in 2016 (with a third place over 1500m), and also repeated her Hamilton half marathon victory of the year before.[13][12] She competed in the women's 5000 metres and women's 10,000 metres at the 2017 World Championships in Athletics.[14]

References

  1. ↑ "2018 CWG bio". Retrieved 28 April 2018.
  2. ↑ "Camille Buscomb". IAAF. Retrieved 11 August 2017.
  3. 1 2 "Athlete profile: Camille Buscomb". olympic.org.nz. New Zealand Olympic Committee. Retrieved 22 March 2018.
  4. 1 2 Pegden, Evan (10 March 2012). "Focus and fitness pay dividends". Stuff. Retrieved 22 March 2018.
  5. ↑ "Hamilton students among new Hillary Scholars". scoop.co.nz. 18 March 2015. Retrieved 22 March 2018.
  6. 1 2 3 4 "Camille Buscomb - Athlete Profile (Athletics New Zealand Rankings and Records)". www.anzrankings.org.nz. Retrieved 22 March 2018.
  7. ↑ Pegden, Evan (14 March 2014). "Camille Buscomb edges closer to Games qualifier". Waikato Times (Stuff). Retrieved 22 March 2018.
  8. ↑ Pegden, Evan (23 August 2014). "Buscomb pushes herself through winter season". Stuff. Retrieved 22 March 2018.
  9. ↑ Pegden, Evan (8 September 2014). "Camille Buscomb claims national title double". Waikato Times (Stuff). Retrieved 22 March 2018.
  10. ↑ "NZ medal tally grows in Korea". Radio New Zealand. 12 July 2015. Retrieved 22 March 2018.
  11. ↑ Posselt, Viv (8 September 2015). "Local runners do Cambridge proud". Stuff. Retrieved 22 March 2018.
  12. 1 2 Gullery, Lawrence (5 October 2016). "Camille Buscomb no longer 'invincible' as running career restarts". Waikato Times (Stuff). Retrieved 22 March 2018.
  13. ↑ "2016 Lion Foundation NZ Track and Field Champs - 4/03/2016 to 6/03/2016 Caledonian Ground Results" (PDF). Athletics. 10 March 2016. p. 2. Retrieved 22 March 2018.
  14. ↑ "10,000 Metres Women". IAAF. Retrieved 11 August 2017.
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