event birth_place headercolor weight height sport birth_date article_title name
long-distance running lilongwe , malawi lightblue 48 kg lb 0 on 1.65 0 on athletics 18 june 1988 lucia chandamale
 lucia chandamale
lucia chandamale

lucia chandamale -lrb- born june 18 , 1988 in lilongwe -rrb- is a malawian athlete , who specialized in long-distance running .
she represented malawi at the 2008 summer olympics in beijing , and competed for the women 's 5,000 metres .
she ran in the first heat of the event , against sixteen other competitors , including ethiopia 's tirunesh dibaba , who won the gold medal in the final round .
chandamale finished and completed the race in fifteenth place , with a time of 16:44.09 , nearly nine seconds slower than her personal best of 16:35.75 .
chandamale also reached the final in the same category for a tenth-place finish at the 2006 commonwealth games in melbourne , australia , with a time of 17:10.46 .
