Diane Nukuri

Diane Nukuri
	Diane Nukuri at the 2012 Olympics "Burundi Day"
Personal information
Born	1 December 1984; Kigozi, Burundi
Height	1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)
Weight	59 kg (130 lb)
Sport
Country	Burundi; United States
College team	Butler CC; Iowa
Achievements and titles
Olympic finals	2000 ; 5000 m, 45th (h) ; 2012 ; Marathon, 31st ; 2016 ; 10,000 m, 13th
Personal bests	5000 m: 15:59.39 (Palo Alto 2008); 10,000 m: 31:28.69 NR (Rio de Janeiro 2016); 5 km: 15:34 (Carlsbad 2016); 10 km: 31:49 (Manchester 2016); Half marathon: 69:12 NR (New York 2013); Marathon: 2:27:50 NR (London 2015);

Diane Nukuri (born 1 December 1984, in Kigozi-Mukike) is a Burundian-American professional distance runner. She competed for Burundi as a fifteen-year-old in the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney in the 5,000m and in the 2012 Summer Olympics in London in the marathon. Nukuri ran for the University of Iowa in college. She was the Burundian flag bearer at the Summer Olympics in 2000 and 2012.

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