Lucia Chandamale

Lucia Chandamale

Personal information
Nationality	Malawi
Born	(1988-06-18) 18 June 1988 Lilongwe, Malawi
Height	1.65 m (5 ft 5 in)
Weight	48 kg (106 lb)
Sport
Sport	Athletics
Event(s)	Long-distance running
Medal record Women's athletics Representing Malawi African Southern Region Championships 2007 Windhoek 5000 m

Lucia Chandamale (born June 18, 1988, in Lilongwe) is a Malawian athlete who specialized in long-distance running. She represented Malawi at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, and competed in 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 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 won a bronze medal in the 5000 m at the 2007 African Southern Region Athletics Championships in Windhoek, Namibia. She was a celebrated athlete in Malawi, maintaining a winning streak at events like the Malawi Defence Force Inter Unit Sports Festival.

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.

External links

• Lucia Chandamale at World Athletics
• NBC 2008 Olympics profile

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