KIM SMITH

NEW ZEALAND

BIB NUMBER:  32

BIRTHDATE:  November 19, 1981

PERSONAL BEST:   31:23 (Atlanta, 2010)

10-K HIGHLIGHTS:
11Jun11  NYRR New York Mini 10-K  6th  32:32
04Jul10  Peachtree Road Race 10-K  4th  31:23
12Jun10 NYRR New York Mini 10-K  5th  32:14
25May09  BUPA London 10,000  1st  31:38
09Jun07  Circle of Friends New York Mini 10-K  2nd  32:18
25Feb07  World's Best 10-K  12th  33:22

OTHER HIGHLIGHTS:
20Mar11  New Bedford Half-Marathon  1st  1:09:51
13Feb11  Rock n' Roll Mardi Gras Half-Marathon  1st 1:07:36
07Nov10  ING New York City Marathon  5th  2:29:28
09Oct10  Hartford Half-Marathon  1st  1:11:32
19Sep10  ING Rock 'n Roll Half-Marathon, Philadelphia  5th  1:08:40
25Apr10  London Marathon  8th  2:25:21
21Mar10  New Bedford Half-Marathon  1st  1:10:52
28Feb10  Rock 'n Roll Mardi Gras Half-Marathon  2nd  1:07:55

CAREER NOTES:
Kim Smith is New Zealand's greatest women's distance runner with numerous national records from 5-K up through the marathon.
She hopes to atone for her last appearance in Boston when injuries forced her to drop out of the Boston Marathon last April after she led through 18 miles of the race.

Although she has run in the 31 minute range for 10-K, Smith has run significantly faster for 10,000 meters on the track. In 2008 at Palo Alto, she set a PR of 30:35.54 as runner-up a few steps behind Shalane Flanagan.

At the Olympics that year she also cracked 31 minutes (30:51.00) placing ninth. She also represented New Zealand in the 2005, 2007 and 2009 World Championships.

If healthy she will be a force to be reckoned with, as she showed by winning the Mardi Gras Half-Marathon in March in 1:07:36, the fastest half-marathon ever run on US soil.

Smith resides in Providence where she went to college and was a four-time national champion over cross-country, indoor and outdoor track.