Lisa Martin

Personal information
Nationality	Australian
Born	Lisa Frances O'Dea (1960-05-12)12 May 1960 (age 65) Gawler, South Australia, Australia
Sport
Country	Australia
Sport	Athletics
Event	Marathon
Medal record Women'sathletics Representing Australia Olympic Games 1988 Seoul Marathon Commonwealth Games 1986 Edinburgh Marathon 1990 Auckland Marathon

Lisa Frances Ondieki (néeO'Dea, formerlyMartin;^[1][2] born 12 May 1960) is an Australian formerlong-distance runner. In themarathon, she won the1988 Olympic silver medal and twoCommonwealth Games gold medals. Other marathon victories included the 1988Osaka International Ladies Marathon and the 1992New York City Marathon. She also won theGreat North Run Half Marathon three times. Her best time for the marathon of 2:23:51, set in 1988, made her the fourth-fastest female marathon runner in history at the time.

Lisa O'Dea was born inGawler, South Australia. She attendedGawler High School.^[3] She was originally a 400 mhurdler, and she competed in middle-distance events in theAIAW for theOregon Ducks track and field team.^[4][5] Initially reluctant to take up themarathon, she won her first marathon competition, the Rocket City marathon inHuntsville USA in 1983, taking almost five minutes off theAustralian record with her time of 2:32:22. In 1984, as Lisa Martin, she finished seventh in the inaugural women's Olympic marathon at the1984 Los Angeles Olympics. Her time of 2:29:03 was the first of her eleven sub 2:30 marathons. Three months later, she finished second in theChicago Marathon, with a new personal best time of 2:27:40.^[1][6]

At the 1985Pittsburgh Marathon, she competed alongside her husband at the time, American distance runnerKen Martin; they became the fastest married couple ever in a marathon winning the men's and women's races in 2:12:57 and 2:31:54 respectively. Later that year, she finished second behindGrete Waitz in theNew York City Marathon. She won the gold medal in the marathon at the1986 Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh in a personal best of 2:26:07, with New Zealand'sLorraine Moller in second. A month later, she won the first of her threeGreat North Run Half Marathon titles in a personal best of 69:45. She ended the 1986 season by again finishing second to Waitz in the New York Marathon. She finished second in the 1987 Osaka marathon, behind Moller, then failed to finish the1987 World Championship marathon in Rome.

In 1988, she ran her fastest ever marathon, when winning inOsaka with a time of 2:23:51, which at the time made her the fourth-fastest woman marathon runner in history, behindIngrid Kristiansen,Joan Benoit andRosa Mota.^[7][8] Later that year, she won a silver medal at the1988 Seoul Olympics in 2:25:53, 13 seconds behind Mota. In January 1990, she retained herCommonwealth marathon title at theAuckland Games. In a solo performance, she finished over seven minutes ahead of silver medallist Australian team-mate Tani Ruckle. Her time of 2:25:28 remains a Games record (as of 2014).^[1] Divorced from Martin, she married Kenyan distance runnerYobes Ondieki in 1990 and missed the rest of that season due to pregnancy, giving birth to their daughter in November 1990. In 1991, she achieved her third top three finish at the New York Marathon, finishing third in a race won by Scotland'sLiz McColgan.

In January 1992, she finished second in the Tokyo Half Marathon, running a lifetime best of 68:33, in a race won by McColgan in 67:11. In June, she ran her lifetime best 10,000 metres, running 31:11.72 in Helsinki. This time was the second fastest in the world in 1992, with only Olympic championDerartu Tulu going faster (31:06). At the1992 Barcelona Olympics, she failed to finish the marathon, having been one of the gold medal favourites. Three months later, she recovered to win theNew York City Marathon, setting a course record of 2:24:40 that would last for nine years. In 1993, she competed in theLondon Marathon for the first time. In a heavily hyped head-to head with Liz McColgan, they both lost out to Germany'sKatrin Dorre, with Ondieki second and McColgan third. In 1994, she again finished second to Dorre in London.

In 1996, now divorced from Ondieki, she ran her fastest marathon time for three years with 2:30:57 in Osaka, to earn selection for her fourth and final Olympics. At the1996 Atlanta Games, she failed to finish.^[1]

Martin was inducted into theSport Australia Hall of Fame in 1997.^[1] In 2000, she received anAustralian Sports Medal.^[2] In 2014, she was inducted into theAthletics Australia Hall of Fame.^[6]

• All results regarding marathon, unless stated otherwise

Year	Competition	Venue	Position	Notes
Representing Australia
1984	Olympic Games	Los Angeles,United States	7th	2:29:03
1986	Commonwealth Games	Edinburgh, Scotland	1st	2:26:07
1987	World Championships	Rome, Italy	—	DNF
1988	Olympic Games	Seoul, South Korea	2nd	2:25:53
1990	Commonwealth Games	Auckland, New Zealand	1st	2:25:28
1992	Olympic Games	Barcelona, Spain	—	DNF
1996	Olympic Games	Atlanta, United States	—	DNF

• Lisa Ondieki atWorld Athletics
• Lisa Frances Ondieki (O'Dea/Martin) at Australian Athletics Historical Results
• Lisa Martin-Ondieki atOlympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)

• 1960 births
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• Athletes (track and field) at the 1996 Summer Olympics
• Medalists at the 1988 Summer Olympics
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• Medallists at the 1990 Commonwealth Games
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