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# Bhagavadh Vinayaga Temple, Kumbakonam

Bhagavadh Vinayaga Temple (Tamil: கும்பகோணம் பகவத் விநாயகர் கோயில்) is a Hindu temple dedicated to the deity Vinayaka, located in the town of Kumbakonam in Thanjavur District Tamil Nadu, India.

## Location

This temple is located at Nagesvarar Tirumanchana Veedhi. This temple is known as Bhagavadh Vinayakar and Bhagava Vinayakar. The ghat connected with this temple and the Cauvery ghat are near the temple.

## History

Bhagavar Maharishi resided in Vedaranyam. His mother on her deathbed asked him to gather her ashes after her death and dissolve them in the place when they turned into flower. After her death he went to several places. When he came to Kumbakonam and was taking bath in Cauvery, his disciple opened the pot which contained the ashes. He thought it might have some food. To his surprise there were flowers instead of ashes. He kept mum, without telling anything to his guru. The guru was on the thinking that it would bloom only in Kasi. During his trip to Kasi he was shocked as ashes did not bloom into river. At that time his disciple narrated the incident which happened at Kumbakonam. Then he took them again to Kumbakonam and after his bath in the Cauvery, he saw ashes were turned into flower. Later he dissolved the ashes in the Cauvery. Then the guru and disciple discovered that Kumbakonam was more holy than Kasi and worshipped the Vinayaga. Since then the temple was known as Bhagavadh Vinayaga Temple.

## Presiding deity

The presiding deity Bhagavadh Vinayaga is very beautiful. He is also known as Gubera Vinayka and Vetri (Victory) Vinayaka. It is said that he would remove all the Navagraha Dhoshas. Locals believe that all the doshas (problems and sickness) would be wiped out if one worship the deity. Navagraha Vinayaga is also found in this temple. He is having Sun, (in his forehead), Moon (in navel), Mars (in right thigh), Mercury (in left lower hand), Jupiter (on the head), Venus (in left lower hand), Saturn (in right upper hand), Rahu (in left upper hand), and Kethu (in left thigh).

## Inscription

It is said that the renovation was done as early as in the year 1692. An inscription dating back to 1692 C.E. records about renovation of and the grants offered to the temple by one Konappadukai Thondaiman, during the reign of Tanjore Marattas.

## Festival

Vinayaka Chadurti is celebrated in a grand manner in this temple. During one Vinayagar chaturthi festival, the Vinayaka is decorated with Indian currency notes. Pujas are regularly in the temple. Special abishegas are also held.

## Kumbhabhishekham

The Kumbhabhishekham of the temple took place in 2006 and during 26 October 2015.
# Piotr Serafin

Piotr Arkadiusz Serafin (Polish pronunciation:; born 12 January 1974) is a Polish politician and lawyer who has served as European Commissioner for Budget and Administration since December 2024. Between 2007–2008, he served as Undersecretary of State for European Integration and between 2012–2014 as Secretary of State of Foreign Affairs.

## Early life and education

Serafin graduated in economics at the SGH Warsaw School of Economics, and in law at the University of Warsaw. He was a postgraduate student of European integration at the University of Sussex.

## Career

Serafin began his professional career at the Office of the Committee for European Integration (UKIE) in 1998. In 2004 he became director of the Analysis and Strategy Department. Between 16 January 2008 and 31 December 2009, he was Undersecretary of State at UKIE and National Aid Coordinator for the Phare and Transition Facility programmes. Following the merging of UKIE and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 2010, he was appointed Undersecretary of State at MFA.
In February 2010, Serafin was appointed the deputy head of Cabinet of the EU Commissioner for Financial Programming and Budget Janusz Lewandowski. He served as the Secretary of State at MFA from 22 May 2012 until 24 September 2014. On 1 December 2014, Serafin took the position of the Head of the Cabinet of the President of the European Council, Donald Tusk.
From 13 December 2023 to October 2024, Serafin served as the acting Permanent Representative of Poland to the European Union. In August 2024, he was nominated by the Polish Government to be Poland's next European Commissioner.

## Personal life

Serafin is married with two daughters.

## Honours

* 2005 – Silver Cross of Merit, Poland
* 2014 – Officer's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta, Poland
* 2020 – Commander's Cross of the National Order of Merit, Romania
# Cool Branch (Tubbs Branch tributary)

Cool Branch is a 2.85 mi (4.59 km) long 2nd order tributary to Tubbs Branch in Sussex County, Delaware.

## Course

Cool Branch rises about 2 miles northwest of Sycamore, Delaware, and then flows northwest to join Tubbs Branch about 0.5 miles south of Concord.

## Watershed

Cool Branch drains 2.24 square miles (5.8 km$^2$) of area, receives about 45.0 in/year of precipitation, has a wetness index of 681.87, and is about 8% forested.
# Izdebno, Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship

Izdebno is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Rogowo, within Żnin County, Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship, in north-central Poland. It lies approximately 4 kilometres (2 mi) north of Rogowo, 12 km (7 mi) south of Żnin, and 47 km (29 mi) south-west of Bydgoszcz.
# Qāriʾ

A qāriʾ (Arabic: قَارِئ, lit. 'reader', plural قُرَّاء qurrāʾ or قَرَأَة qaraʾa) is a person who recites the Quran with the proper rules of recitation (tajwid).
Although it is encouraged, a qāriʾ does not necessarily have to memorize the Quran, just to recite it according to the rules of tajwid with melodious sound.
The quadrumvirate of El Minshawy, Abdul Basit, Mustafa Ismail, and Al-Hussary are generally considered the most important and famous qurrāʾ of modern times to have had an outsized impact on the Islamic world.$^{:83}$

## Notable qurrāʾ

The following list is a partial list of some notable reciters of the Qur'an:

### Afghanistan

* Muhammad ibn Tayfour Sajawandi

### Bangladesh

* Muhammad Ibrahim Ujani (1863–1943)
* Abdur Rahman Kashgari (1912–1971)
* Syed Muhammad Ishaq (1915–1977)
* Muhammadullah Hafezzi (1895–1987)
* Abdul Latif Chowdhury Fultali (1913–2008)
* Saleh Ahmad Takrim (2008–)

### Egypt

Reader is referred to as Shaykh al-Maqâriʾ [6] (Arabic: شيخ المقارئ, lit. 'Scholar of the Recitation Schools').
* Muhammad Rifat (1882–1950)
* Mohamed Salamah (1899–1982)
* Mustafa Ismail (1905–1978)
* Mahmoud Khalil Al-Hussary (1917–1980), Shaykh al-Maqâriʾ
* Muhammad Siddiq Al-Minshawi (1920–1969), Shaykh al-Maqâriʾ
* Kamil Yusuf Al-Bahtimi (1922–1969)
* Abdul Basit 'Abd us-Samad (1927–1988)

### India

* Husain Burhanuddin

### Indonesia

* Maria Ulfah
* Muammar Z.A.
* Mu'min Ainul Mubarak

### Iran

* Hamed Shakernejad

### Kuwait

* Mishary Rashid Alafasy

### Pakistan

* Shakir Qasmi (1943–2023)
* Waheed Zafar Qasmi
* Qari Ghulam Rasool
* Hassan Ali Kasi
* Syed Sadaqat Ali
* Zahir Qasmi

### Saudi Arabia

* Ali Abdullah Jaber (1954-2005)
* Muhammad Ayyub (1952-2016)
* Ahmad bin Ali Al-Ajmi
* Abu Abd al-Rahman Ibn Aqil al-Zahiri
* Saud Al-Shuraim
* Abdul-Rahman Al-Sudais
* Ali ibn Abdur-Rahman al Hudhaify
* Saad al Ghamdi
* Maher Al-Mu'aiqly
* Yasser Al-Dosari

### Somalia

* Abdul Rachid Soufi
# Strabena ibitina

Strabena ibitina is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found on Madagascar. The habitat consists of forests.
# New Administrative Capital Stadium

Misr Stadium (Egyptian Arabic: ستاد مصر, Egyptian Arabic pronunciation:, aliases: Egypt Stadium), commonly known as the New Administrative Capital Stadium, is a stadium in Egypt's Olympic Sports City in the New Administrative Capital. It has a capacity of over 93,940 people, making it the largest stadium in the country and the second largest in Africa.
It is part of the Egypt International Olympic City, a large sports complex that has been under construction since 2015. It will have a training ground, two indoor halls (one of them a 15,000-capacity arena), an Olympic-size swimming pool, and other buildings, and is being built with an eye toward the country's possible bids for the Olympic Games or the FIFA World Cup.

## History

Construction of the stadium began in 2019 as part of a large Olympic sports complex. It was designed by Italian firms SHESA Architects and MJW Structures with partnership with Cosmos-E engineers and consultants, who had also worked on Juventus Stadium in Turin and the Paul Biya stadium in Yaoundè, Cameroon. Orascom Construction were the main contractor, Design Review and Construction Supervision by ACE Consulting Engineers (Moharram and Bakhoum), Owner and Project Management EAAF.
The stadium was completed in late 2023, and hosted the Egypt national football team training camp before the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations. It was inaugurated on 22 March 2024, when Egypt hosted New Zealand in a friendly match, beating them 1–0.

## Design

The Misr Stadium is built on an elliptical ground plan. The roof is stylistically based on the headdress and the royal necklace of Nefertiti, the ancient Egyptian queen. The Stadium has a running track.

## Matches

The stadium hosted its first match on 22 March 2024, between Egypt and New Zealand, as the opener of 2024 ACUD Cup, which was part of the first 2024 FIFA Series.
# Wahb ibn Abd Manaf

Wahb ibn 'Abd Manaf (Arabic: وهب بن عبد مناف) ibn Zuhrah ibn Kilab ibn Murrah, was the chief of Banu Zuhrah, and the father of Aminah bint Wahb. He was the maternal grandfather of the Islamic prophet Muhammad.

## Family

Wahb's great-grandfather was Zuhrah ibn Kilab, the progenitor of the Banu Zuhrah clan of the Quraysh tribe in Mecca. His mother Qaylah (Hind) bint Wajz Ibn Ghalib of Banu Khuza'a. His brother was Wuhayb ibn 'Abd Manaf.
Wahb was married to Barrah bint Abdul Uzza of the Banu Abd ad-Dar clan of the Quraysh tribe. Wahb's chief wife, Barrah bint Abdul Uzza, was a great-granddaughter of Qusayy, and his other wife was Rughaybah bint Zurarah ibn Addas, one of the eminent women of Yathrib (Medina). His son, Abdu Yaghuth, was himself a notable chief.

## After Wahb ibn 'Abd Manaf

When Wahb died, and possibly also his wife Barrah (for there is no other mention of her) Ayyilah took Barra's daughters Halah and Aminah into her care. The widow Rughaybah chose not to accept the proposal of her husband's brother, but instead married Qays ibn Amr of the Banu Adiy ibn Najjar, returned to Yathrib, and in due course gave birth to Salmah (Umm Mundhir), and Salit. Ayyilah also had a daughter of her own of marriageable age, also called Halah.
When Abdullah ibn Abdul-Muttalib reached the right age his father, Abdul-Muttalib began searching for a wife for him. One of Abdul Muttalib's cousins, Muttalib's daughter Ayyilah, was already married into the Banu Zuhrah; her husband was Zuhrah's grandson and Wahb's brother, Wuhayb. Abdul-Muttalib requested Halah for himself, despite being over 70 years old. Halah's age is not known, but Aminah was about 15 when she married Abdullah. Both girls gave consent and the two marriages were organised to take place at the same time.
# Yoshiro Shimizu

Yoshiro Shimizu (清水 芳郎, Shimizu Yoshirō, born March 9, 1993 in Tokyo) is a Japanese curler.
At the international level, he is a 2012 Pacific-Asia silver medallist.

## Teams

| Season | Skip | Third | Second | Lead | Alternate | Coach | Events |
| 2009–10 | Yuta Matsumura | Keita Satoh | Yoshiro Shimizu | Hiroaki Ogawa | Yusaku Shibaya | | PAJCC 2010 |
| 2010–11 | Yuta Matsumura | Yoshiro Shimizu | Yuki Tsuchiya | Hiroaki Ogawa | Yusaku Shibaya | | PAJCC 2011 |
| 2011–12 | Yuta Matsumura | Yuki Sakamoto | Yoshiro Shimizu | Yukako Tsuchiya | | | |
| 2012–13 | Yusuke Morozumi | Tsuyoshi Yamaguchi | Tetsuro Shimizu | Kosuke Morozumi | Yoshiro Shimizu | Tadashi Fujimaki (PACC) Hatomi Nagaoka (PACC, WCC) | PACC 2012 WCC 2013 (11th) |
| 2013–14 | Tamotsu Matsumura | Yuki Sakamoto | Yoshiro Shimizu | Hayato Satoh | Hayato Matsumura | | JMCC 2014 (???th) |
| 2014–15 | Tamotsu Matsumura | Yoshiro Shimizu | Yuki Sakamoto | Yasuo Mochida | | | |
| 2017–18 | Yoshiro Shimizu | Yuki Sakamoto | Riku Yanagisawa | Hayato Sato | | | JMCC 2018 |
| 2018–19 | Yoshiro Shimizu | Tamotsu Matsumura | Yuki Sakamoto | Hayato Sato | Yasuo Mochida | | |
| 2019–20 | Yoshiro Shimizu | Tamotsu Matsumura | Yuki Sakamoto | Hayato Sato | Yasuo Mochida | | |
# Podolí Waterworks

Podolí Waterworks (in Czech: Podolská vodárna) is a big water supply equipment located in capital city of the Czech Republic, Prague, neighborhood Podolí. More precisely, it is located in Prague 4 on the right side of Vltava river between Vyšehrad and Swimming stadium Podolí (Plavecký stadium Podolí). The current complex was built between 1925–1929 on the place where former water supply infrastructure was located. In 1990s, it was completely reconstructed. From 2003, it serves only as backup water source in case of failure of other treatment plants. The complex was built in neoclassical architecture style and it is protected as a Cultural monument. It also serves as a Prague Waterworks Museum.
# Pennsylvania Railroad class R1

The Pennsylvania Railroad's class R1 comprised a single prototype electric locomotive constructed in 1934 by the Baldwin Locomotive Works of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US, with the electrical equipment by Westinghouse.
It was built as a competitor to the GG1 design, but after trials the GG1 was selected for volume production on the basis of its superior tracking and riding qualities; the R1 prototype, however, remained in service. It was numbered 4800 originally, swapped numbers with the victorious GG1 prototype to #4899, but was moved in May 1940 to #4999 to make room for the expanding GG1 fleet.
For many years, the R1's regular duties involved hauling the westbound Broadway Limited and returning eastward with a mail and express train. The long rigid wheelbase of the locomotive caused occasional derailments in Sunnyside Yard and elsewhere.
The R1 design had four driven axles in a rigid locomotive frame, like a steam locomotive. Each was driven by two 625-horsepower (466 kW) traction motors driving the wheels through a quill drive and sprung cups. Each end of the double-ended locomotive has a four-wheel truck to guide the locomotive at speed, giving the R1 a 4-8-4 wheel arrangement in the Whyte notation (AAR: 2-D-2; UIC: 2'Do2'). Besides the R1, the PRR did not build or order any other 4-8-4 locomotives, however the T1 duplex was essentially a 4-8-4 with two sets of driving wheels as a 4-4-4-4. In many respects the design resembled the earlier, lighter P5, but with an extra driving axle and lower axle loads.
# Willard L. King

Willard Leroy King (1893 – 1981) was an American lawyer and historian known for his scholarly work on Abraham Lincoln. He was the author of two biographical books: one about Melville Fuller and one about David Davis. A graduate of the University of Chicago, King was a senior partner at the law firm King, Robin, Gale & Pillinger. At the time of his death, King was writing a book to be titled Lincoln the Lawyer.
# Line 9 (Hangzhou Metro)

Line 9 of the Hangzhou Metro (simplified Chinese: 杭州地铁九号线; traditional Chinese: 杭州地鐵九號線; pinyin: Hángzhōu Dìtiě Jiǔhào Xiàn) is a metro line in Hangzhou. The line is 29.45 km (18.30 mi) long and runs in a north–south direction between Guanyintang and Long'an. The line is colored brown on system maps.

## Opening timeline

| Segment | Commencement | Length | Station(s) | Name |
| Coach Center — Linping | 24 November 2012; 12 years ago (2012-11-24) 10 July 2021; 3 years ago (2021-07-10) | 12.5 km (7.8 mi) | 7 | Central section of Phase 1 |
| Linping — Long'an | 17 September 2021; 3 years ago (2021-09-17) | 6.2 km (3.9 mi) | 4 | North section of Phase 1 |
| Guanyintang — Coach Center (except Liubao and Wubao) | 1 April 2022; 2 years ago (2022-04-01) | 12 km (7.5 mi) | 10 | South section of Phase 1 |
| Liubao and Wubao | 14 December 2022; 2 years ago (2022-12-14) | | 2 | Infill stations |
* ↑ as part of Line 1
* ↑ Line 9 commencement

## Stations
### Legend

- Operational  - Under construction
| Section | Station name | Station name | Connections | Distance km | Distance km | Location |
| Section | English | Chinese | Connections | Distance km | Distance km | Location |
| North | Long'an | 龙安 | | 0 | 0 | Linping |
| North | Wuzhou Road | 五洲路 | | | | Linping |
| North | Heyu Road | 荷禹路 | | | | Linping |
| North | Qiushan Avenue | 邱山大街 | | | | Linping |
| Central | Linping | 临平 | | | | Linping |
| Central | Nanyuan | 南苑 | | | | Linping |
| Central | Linpingnan Railway Station | 临平南高铁站 | Hanghai EVH | | | Linping |
| Central | Wengmei | 翁梅 | | | | Linping |
| Central | Qiaosi | 乔司 | | | | Linping |
| Central | South Qiaosi | 乔司南 | | | | Linping |
| Central | Coach Center | 客运中心 | 1 | | | Shangcheng |
| South | Jiumu Road | 九睦路 | | | | Shangcheng |
| South | South Hongpu Road | 红普南路 | | | | Shangcheng |
| South | Liubao | 六堡 | | | | Shangcheng |
| South | Wubao | 五堡 | | | | Shangcheng |
| South | Yudao | 御道 | 19 | | | Shangcheng |
| South | Sanbao | 三堡 | 6 | | | Shangcheng |
| South | Jianghehui | 江河汇 | | | | Shangcheng |
| South | Qianjiang Road | 钱江路 | 2  4 | | | Shangcheng |
| South | Xinye Road | 新业路 | | | | Shangcheng |
| South | Guanyintang | 观音塘 | 7 | | | Shangcheng |

## Rolling stock

| Stock | Class | Year built | Builder | Number built | Numbers | Formation | Depots | Line assigned | Notes |
| PM145 | B | 2020-2022 | CRRC Nanjing Puzhen | 186 (31 sets) | 09 001 - 09 031 (090011-090316) | Tc+Mp+M+M+Mp+Tc | Changda Road Depot Sibao Yard | 9 | |
# Cow Bridge Branch

Cow Bridge Branch is a 3.98 mi (6.41 km) long third-order tributary to Millsboro Pond in Sussex County, Delaware. This is the only stream of this name in the United States.

## Variant names

According to the Geographic Names Information System, it has also been known historically as:
* Cow Bridge Brook
* Doe Bridge Branch

## Course

Cow Bridge Branch begins at the outlet of Morris Millpond at Morris Mill, Delaware, where Deep Branch and Gills Branch join. Cow Bridge Branch then flows south-southeast to Millsboro Pond.

## Watershed

Cow Bridge Branch drains 31.58 square miles (81.8 km$^2$) of area, receives about 45.1 in/year of precipitation, and is about 23.07% forested.
# Simon Krauss

Simon Krauss (born 12 February 1992) is a French athlete specialising in the high hurdles. He won a gold medal at the 2013 European U23 Championships.
His personal bests are 13.51 seconds in the 110 metres hurdles (-0.3 m/s, Montreuil-sous-Bois 2014) and 7.63 seconds in the 60 metres hurdles (Reims 2018).

## International competitions

| Year | Competition | Venue | Position | Event | Notes |
| Representing France ||||||
| 2013 | European U23 Championships | Tampere, Finland | 1st | 110 m hurdles | 13.55 |
| 2013 | Jeux de la Francophonie | Nice, France | 5th | 110 m hurdles | 14.18 |
| 2014 | Mediterranean U23 Championships | Aubagne, France | 1st | 110 m hurdles | 13.64 |
| 2017 | Universiade | Taipei, Taiwan | 5th (h) | 110 m hurdles | 13.91$^1$ |
| 2018 | Mediterranean Games | Tarragona, Spain | 4th | 110 m hurdles | 13.77 |
$^1$Disqualified in the semifinals
# Ikuzo Saito

Ikuzo Saito (斎藤 育造, Saitō Ikuzō, born 11 August 1960 in Matsusaka, Mie) is a Japanese former wrestler who competed in the 1984 Summer Olympics and in the 1988 Summer Olympics.
# Iipumbu Ya Tshilongo

Iipumbu ya Tshilongo (1875–1959) was the king of Uukwambi, an Ovambo clan in Namibia, from 1907 to 1932. He is one of the national heroes of Namibia.

## Biography

Iipumbu ya Tshilongo was born in 1873 in Onatshiku, a settlement near Elim, today in the Omusati Region of northern Namibia. An accident as an adolescent earned him the nickname Ndilimani (Oshiwambo: dynamite) when an explosion blew three fingers off his left hand.
He became the eighteenth king of the Uukwambi in 1907, succeeding King Negumbo lya Kandenge. During his reign he became known to jealously protect the tribal area of the Uukwambi from encroaching white settlers, going as far as having the roads guarded that led into Uukwambi territory.
Ya Tshilongo also resisted European cultural influence exercised via the establishment of mission stations and administrative outposts. Having rebuked the Finnish Missionary Society and the South West African Administration for years, he only allowed the Catholic Church to establish a station at Oshikuku in 1924. He ignored the Administration's request to send contract laborers, refused to pay taxes, and was generally uncooperative towards the authorities.
Oral history and archival records characterize ya Tshilongo as a despotic tyrant who ruled with an iron fist. He had many of his subjects flee his influence, including his daughter, Neekulu ya Shivute. Both his stubbornness towards the authorities and his questionable way of ruling led to a decision to topple him. In 1932, troops under Resident Commissioner Hahn attacked the Uukwambi during his absence and had his homestead at Onashiku bombed with military aircraft.
Iipumpu ya Tshilongo was later arrested and forced into exile in Kavango. He returned in 1938 to Amupolo due to illness. Ya Tshilongo died in Oshikuku on 9 September 1959.

## Recognition

Iipumbu ya Tshilongo is one of nine national heroes of Namibia who were identified at the inauguration of the country's Heroes' Acre near Windhoek. Founding president Sam Nujoma remarked in his inauguration speech on 26 August 2002 that:
   Chief Iipumbu ya Tshilongo was a true Namibian nationalist ruler who rejected the idea to pay taxes to the South Africa colonial authorities and who refused to cooperate with them. He also did not allow the missionaries to gain any influence over him or his people. [...] His resistance and strong nationalistic character inspired many people, even in his absence, to continue with the anti-colonial struggle. [...] To his revolutionary spirit and his visionary memory we humbly offer our honor and respect.
Ya Tshilongo is honored in form of a granite tombstone with his name engraved and his portrait plastered onto the slab. His homestead in Onashiku was proclaimed a national monument in 2014. The site was deproclaimed a few months later.
# Crony Pond Branch

Crony Pond Branch is a 1.44 mi (2.32 km) long 1st order tributary to Toms Dam Branch in Sussex County, Delaware. This is the only stream of this name in the United States.

## Course

Crony Pond Branch rises in Owens, Delaware and then flows west to join Toms Dam Branch about 0.5 miles east of St. Johnstown.

## Watershed

Crony Pond Branch drains 0.57 square miles (1.5 km$^2$) of area, receives about 45.4 in/year of precipitation, has a topographic wetness index of 677.03 and is about 9% forested.
# Christine Mallo

Christine Mallo (born 26 February 1966 at Orléans) is a French former athlete, who specialized in long-distance running.
She won the French national title in the half marathon in 1995. In 1996, at the IAAF World Half Marathon Championships in Palma de Mallorca, Spain, Mallo placed sixth in the individual event in 1:12:24, and won the silver medal in the team event alongside her compatriots Zahia Dahmani and Muriel Linsolas.
She placed 14th in the marathon at the 1997 IAAF World Championships in Athletics in Athens with the time of 2:40:55.
Her personal best for the marathon, established in 1999, is 2:31:49.

## International competitions

| Year | Competition | Venue | Position | Event | Notes |
| 1996 | Half Marathon World Championships | Palma, Spain | 6th | Half marathon | 1:12:24 |
| 1996 | Half Marathon World Championships | Palma, Spain | 2nd | Team | 3:38:44 |
| 1997 | World Championships | Athens, Greece | 14th | Marathon | 2:40:55 |

## Personal bests

| Event | Performance | Location | Date |
| Half marathon | 1:11:29 | Nice | 29 March 1998 |
| Marathon | 2:31:49 | Rotterdam | 18 April 1999 |