Madeleine Pape, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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Australian middle distance runner
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Place of Birth: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
About Madeleine Pape
- Madeleine Pape (born 24 February 1984 in Melbourne, Victoria) is an Australian middle distance runner.
- She set her personal best time of 1:59.92, by winning the women's 800 metres at the 2008 Sydney Athletics Grand Prix in Sydney, New South Wales.
- She also won a gold medal in the same distance at the 2009 Summer Universiade in Belgrade, Serbia, finishing her time at 2:01.91.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.
- Pape, however, failed to advance into the semi-finals, as she placed twenty-ninth overall, and was ranked farther below three mandatory slots for the next round.
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