Elana Meyer, OIS, (born 10 October 1966) is a South African long-distance runner who won the silver medal at the 1992 Summer Olympics in the 10,000 metres event.

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Elana Meyer

Medal record
Women's athletics
Representing  South Africa
Olympic Games
	1992 Barcelona	10,000 m
Commonwealth Games
	1994 Victoria	10,000 m
All-Africa Games
	1999 Johannesburg	5,000 m
African Championships
	1992 Belle-Vue	1,500 m
	1993 Durban	1,500 m
World Half Marathon Championships
	1994 Oslo	Half-Marathon
	1998 Uster	Half-Marathon

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Meyer set the 15 kilometres road running African record of 46:57 minutes in November 1991 in Cape Town. The record was equalled by Ethiopia's Mestawet Tufa in 2008.^[1] The record was beaten in 2009 by Tirunesh Dibaba, also from Ethiopia, who posted a new world record of 46:28 minutes.^[2]

Meyer also held the half marathon African record (1:06:44 hours), set in January 1999 in Tokyo. The record was broken by Mary Keitany of Kenya at the 2009 IAAF World Half Marathon Championships by running the distance in 1:06:36 hours.^[3]

She was the gold medallist at the 1994 IAAF World Half Marathon Championships and set world records in that event in 1991, 1997, 1998, and 1999. She also had several good placings in top level marathon races.