{{short description|British long-distance runner}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} '''Joanna Lodge''' (born 6 January 1968 Harrogate) is a retired British long-distance runner. She represented Great Britain in the Marathon at the 2003 World Championships in Athletics and in the 1999 edition of the IAAF World Half Marathon Championships.
Lodge grew up in Liverpool and was a good club athlete at Liverpool Harriers.<ref name=telegraph03>{{cite web |author1=James Mossop |title=Lodge follows her own path into limelight |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/othersports/athletics/2410622/Lodge-follows-her-own-path-into-limelight.html |website=The Telegraph |publisher=The Telegraph |accessdate=21 July 2018 |date=31 August 2003}}</ref> Her first marathon was with the uncategorised masses at the 1995 London Marathon where she finished with a respectable time of 3 hrs 9mins.<ref name=telegraph03/> A win at the 1999 Fleet Half Marathon was a precursor to representing Great Britain at the 1999 IAAF World Half Marathon Championships where she finished 48th behind compatriots Marian Sutton(22nd) and Birhan Dagne(29th).
An excellent finish in the 2002 Berlin Marathon, in a personal best time of 2:34:17 gave her a place in the British team at the 2003 World Championships in Athletics in Paris. As the only British competitor in the race she finished mid-field in a time of 2:37:56.<ref>{{cite web |author1=Dale Harry |title=Jo's valiant run in World marathon |url=http://www.richmondandtwickenhamtimes.co.uk/news/410194.Jo__s_valiant_run_in_World_marathon/ |website=Richmond & Twickenham times |publisher=Richmond & Twickenham times |accessdate=21 July 2018 |date=5 September 2003}}</ref> The following year at the London Marathon she came home as the third British woman (13th woman overall), in a time of 2:34:49, behind emerging athlete Tracey Morris and Birhan Dagne.<ref>{{cite web |title=Michelle smashes marathon record |url=https://www.miltonkeynes.co.uk/sport/michelle-smashes-marathon-record-1-875526 |website=MKCITIZEN |publisher=MKCITIZEN |accessdate=21 July 2018 |date=22 April 2004 }}{{Dead link|date=March 2026 |bot=InternetArchiveBot }}</ref> At the time Lodge was a member of Windsor, Slough, Eton and Hounslow Athletic Club and a teacher of art and ceramics at Gunnersbury Catholic School.
==Competition record== {| {{AchievementTable|Event=yes}} |- !colspan="6"|Representing {{GBR2}} |- |1999 |Fleet Half Marathon |Fleet, Hampshire, UK |1st |Half Marathon |1:18:00 |- |1999 |IAAF World Half Marathon Championships |Palermo, Italy |48th |Half Marathon |1:17:36 |- |2002 |Bath Half Marathon |Bath, Somerset, UK |1st |Half Marathon |1:14.01 (PB) |- |2002 |Berlin Marathon |Berlin, Germany |7th |Marathon |2:34:17 (PB) |- |2003 |2003 World Championships in Athletics |Paris, France |39th |Marathon |2:37:56 |- |2004 |London Marathon |London, United Kingdom |13th |Marathon |2:34:49 |}
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==External links== *{{Power of 10 name | 3900}} *{{World Athletics}} *{{ARRS name | 11133}}
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Lodge, Joanna}} Category:1968 births Category:Living people Category:English women long-distance runners Category:British women long-distance runners Category:English women marathon runners Category:British women marathon runners Category:21st-century British sportswomen Category:Athletes from Liverpool Category:20th-century English sportswomen