Madeleine Pape

Madeleine Pape (born 24 February 1984) is an Australian sociologist and former middle-distance athlete.[1]

Madeleine Pape
Personal information
Nationality Australia
Born (1984-02-24) 24 February 1984
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Height1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)
Weight56 kg (123 lb)
Sport
SportAthletics
Event(s)Middle distance running
ClubWaverley Athletics Club
Coached byTerry McGrath
Achievements and titles
Personal best(s)400 m: 52.68 (2009)
800 m: 1:59.92 (2008)
1500 m: 4:22.36 (2007)
Medal record
Women's athletics
Representing  Australia
Universiade
2009 Belgrade800 m

Career

Pape set her personal best of 1:59.92 in winning the women's 800 metres at the 2008 Sydney Athletics Grand Prix in Sydney, New South Wales.[2][3] She also won a gold medal in the same distance at the 2009 Summer Universiade in Belgrade, Serbia, finishing in 2:01.91.[4]

Pape represented Australia at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, where she competed for the women's 800 metres. She ran in the first heat against six other athletes, including Russia's Svetlana Klyuka, who nearly missed out of the medal podium in the final. She finished the race in sixth place by ninety-one hundredths of a second (0.91) behind Namibia's Agnes Samaria, with a time of 2:03.09. However, Pape did not advance to the semi-finals.[5]

Following her athletic career, Pape moved to the United States to complete her doctorate studies in sociology, and now examines sex and gender in sport and biomedicine.[6]

References
  1. Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Madeleine Pape". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 30 January 2013.
  2. McAsey, Jenny (18 February 2008). "Lewis finds form and new rivalry". The Australian. Retrieved 30 January 2013.
  3. Hurst, Mike (16 February 2008). "Vili, Lewis impress, Batman defeats Wariner at 200m - Sydney report". IAAF. Retrieved 30 January 2013.
  4. "Athletics Australia – News – Pape bags 800m gold – the World University Games in Belgrade". German Road Races. 10 July 2009. Retrieved 30 January 2013.
  5. "Women's 800m Round 1 – Heat 1". NBC Olympics. Archived from the original on 21 August 2012. Retrieved 30 January 2013.
  6. Pape, Madeleine (1 May 2019). "I was sore about losing to Caster Semenya. But this decision against her is wrong". The Guardian. Retrieved 10 May 2020.


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