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Benita Jaye Willis (born on 6 May 1979 in Mackay, Queensland) is an Australian long-distance runner, who is a three-time national champion in the women's 5,000 metres. Her foremost achievement is a gold medal in the long race at the 2004 IAAF World Cross Country Championships.
- Early ON, Little Cross-Country Background
- World Cross Debut
- Her Greatest Triumph
- The Later Years
- Setting Up Her Career
Perhaps unusually for an athlete who boasted such strong cross-country pedigree on the global stage, Benita Willis had little background over the surface as a child growing up in Mackay on the Queensland coast. She only raced cross county “maybe once” at school because the season often clashed with her hockey commitments (Willis was an Australian j...
Willis competed in the 5000m (failing to advance from the heats) aged 21 at the 2000 Sydney Olympics. Keen to further test herself on the international stage, she made her IAAF World Cross Country Championships debut in the short race at the 2001 event in Ostend, Belgium. Earlier in the month the Australian had set a national record of 8:42.75 to f...
Quickly drawn to the quirks and charm of cross-country running, Willis returned for the 2002 and 2003 editions in Dublin and Lausanne. But although she performed with distinction in the short course races to place fourth and fifth respectively, she was left hugely frustrated to miss out on a podium spot. “Top five was good, but I wanted a medal,” s...
Willis went on to compete at a further four World Cross Country Championships but could not repeat the success of Brussels. At the 2006 edition in Fukuoka, she finished an agonising fourth in both the short and long course events, although she had the consolation of earning team bronze for Australia in the former race. She made her last World Cross...
There is little doubt in Willis’s mind that her best years on the track and on the road often followed an outstanding cross-country campaign and the World Cross Country Championships always represented a key event. “Training for the World Cross helped set me up for the rest of the year,” she insists. “It kept me focused during the summer (the north...
Jun 6, 2009 · Benita Willis is the only Australian ever to win the World Athletics Cross Country Championship (and last non-African), taking the title in Brussels in 2004. Amazing! Let's hear what Benita is looking forward to for March 20, 2021!
Benita WILLIS-JOHNSON | Profile | World Athletics. Country. Australia. Born. 06 MAY 1979. Athlete Code. 14271064. Follow me. Honours Summary. 1 x In Top 8 at World Championships. 1 x World Cross Country champion. 2 x In Top 8 at World Indoor Championships. 1 x World Half Marathon Championships Bronze medallist. More Honours. Personal Bests.
benita willis (6 may 1979 - Benita was born in Mackay, Queensland and developed into one of Australia's greatest female distance runners. She was active from an early age, enjoying a range of sports and physical pursuits including motorbike riding and shooting.
Jan 18, 2012 · A 1:10:04 win at the Rock ‘n’ Roll Las Vegas Half Marathon in early December indicated she’d regained her distance racing form, and she confirmed that over twice the distance in Houston last...
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Aug 7, 2023 · Benita Willis is arguably Australia's best-performed female distance runner, with Australian records from 3000m to the marathon (until Jessica Hull recently broke her 5000m time)....
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