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{{Short description|New Zealand runner (born 1955)}}
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| nationals        = 800 m champion (1976, 1979)<br>1500 m champion (1976, 1979, 1980)<br>3000 m champion (1982, 1986)<br>5000 m champion (1987)<br>10,000 m champion (1990)<br>4 km road race champion (1972, 1973)<ref name="Hollings">{{cite web |url= http://www.anzrankings.org.nz/userfiles/file/National_Champions.pdf |title=National champions 1887–2016 |date=December 2016 |publisher=Athletics New Zealand |access-date=8 May 2017 | first=Stephen | last=Hollings}}</ref>
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'''Anne Frances Audain''' {{post-nominals|country=NZL|MBE|size=85%}} (née '''Garrett''', born 1 November 1955) is a New Zealand middle and long-distance runner. She competed in three [[Olympic Games]] and four [[Commonwealth Games]],<ref>{{cite web |url= https://olympic.org.nz/athletes/anne-audain |title=Anne Audain |publisher=[[New Zealand Olympic Committee]] |access-date=2 June 2021}}</ref> winning the [[Athletics at the 1982 Commonwealth Games|1982 Commonwealth Games 3000m title]] and a silver medal in the 10,000m at the [[Athletics at the 1986 Commonwealth Games|1986 Commonwealth Games]].

==Career==
Born in [[Auckland]],<ref>{{cite book |first= Ron | last=Palenski |title= Black Gold |year=2004 |publisher= New Zealand Sports Hall of Fame |pages= 18, 40 |isbn= 0-473-08536-4}}</ref> Audain finished ninth aged 17 in the 1973 World Cross Country Championships. She ran in the 1500 m at the [[1974 British Commonwealth Games]] in [[Christchurch]], New Zealand, finishing sixth, and top New Zealander, in the final with a time of 4:21.1.

In the [[1976 Summer Olympics]] in Montreal, Audain competed in both the 800 and 1500 m. Although she failed to get past the heats, she broke the New Zealand record for the 1500 m.

Prior to the start of the 1980s, major track and field athletics meetings had not had any women's events longer than 1500 metres. This started to change early in the new decade, and in March 1982, Audain competed in her first 5000 metres, breaking the world record. In the [[1982 Commonwealth Games]] in [[Brisbane]] she won Gold in the 3000 metres in 8m 45.53s, a [[New Zealand records in athletics|New Zealand record]]. The record stood for 25 years until it was finally broken by [[Kim Smith (runner)|Kim Smith]] of Auckland, when she ran 8min 35.31sec on 25 July 2007 in Monaco.

At the [[1984 Summer Olympics|1984 Olympic Games]] Audain competed in the inaugural women's Olympic [[marathon]]. In the 1988 Games, her last, she finished 11th in the inaugural women's [[Athletics at the 1988 Summer Olympics – Women's 10,000 metres|10,000 metres]].<ref name="SR profile">{{Cite sports-reference |title = Anne Garrett-Audain |url = https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ga/anne-garrett-audain-1.html |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20200418044122/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ga/anne-garrett-audain-1.html |url-status = dead |archive-date = 18 April 2020 |access-date = 4 May 2017}}</ref>

In 1993 Audain founded the Idaho Women's Fitness Celebration 5K, now the largest {{convert|5|km|mi}} race for women in the USA.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.celebrateall.org/ |title=St Luke's Women's Fitness Celebration |access-date=22 August 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120830022058/http://celebrateall.org/ |archive-date=30 August 2012 }}</ref>

==Honours and awards==
Audain was awarded the [[New Zealand 1990 Commemoration Medal]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Taylor |first1=Alister |last2=Coddington |first2=Deborah |author-link1=Alister Taylor |author-link2=Deborah Coddington |title=Honoured by the Queen – New Zealand |year=1994 |publisher=New Zealand Who's Who Aotearoa |location=Auckland |isbn=0-908578-34-2 |page=51}}</ref> In the [[1995 New Year Honours (New Zealand)|1995 New Year Honours]], she was appointed a [[Member of the Order of the British Empire]], for services to athletics.<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=53894 |date=31 December 1994 |page=34 |supp=2}}</ref>

In February 2008, Audain was inducted into the Running USA Hall of Champions, and on 3 February 2009 she was inducted into the New Zealand Sports Hall of Fame. She has the unique distinction of being in three Halls of Fame in two nations as in 2014 she was also inducted into the RRCA Distance Running Hall of Fame.

==International competitions==
{| {{AchievementTable|Event=yes}}
|-
!colspan="6"|Representing {{NZL}}
|-
|1973
|[[1973 IAAF World Cross Country Championships|World Cross Country Championships]]
|[[Waregem]], Belgium
|9th
|4.0&nbsp;km
|14:15
|-
|1974
|[[Athletics at the 1974 British Commonwealth Games|British Commonwealth Games]]
|[[Christchurch]], New Zealand
|6th
|1500 m
|4:21.1
|-
|rowspan=2|1976
|rowspan=2|[[Athletics at the 1976 Summer Olympics|Olympic Games]]
|rowspan=2|[[Montreal]], Canada
|heats
|800 m
|2:05.78
|-
|heats
|1500 m
|4:10.68
|-
|1977
|[[1977 IAAF World Cup|World Cup]]
|[[Düsseldorf]], Germany
|8th
|1500 m
|4:31.5
|-
|1982
|[[Athletics at the 1982 Commonwealth Games|Commonwealth Games]]
|[[Brisbane]], Australia
|bgcolor=gold|1st
|3000 m
|8:45.53
|-
|1984
|[[Athletics at the 1984 Summer Olympics|Olympic Games]]
|[[Los Angeles]], United States
|dnf
|Marathon
|—
|-
|1986
|[[Athletics at the 1986 Commonwealth Games|Commonwealth Games]]
|[[Edinburgh]], Scotland
|bgcolor=silver|2nd
|10,000 m
|31:53.31
|-
|1988
|[[Athletics at the 1988 Summer Olympics|Olympic Games]] 
|[[Seoul]], South Korea
|11th
|10,000 m
|[[Athletics at the 1988 Summer Olympics – Women's 10000 metres|32:10.47]]
|-
|1990
|[[Athletics at the 1990 Commonwealth Games|Commonwealth Games]]
|[[Auckland]], New Zealand
|11th
|10,000 m
|33:40.13
|}

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
* {{World Athletics}}
* {{New Zealand Sports Hall of Fame}}
* {{New Zealand Olympic Committee|anne-audain}}
* {{Olympics.com profile|anne-audain}}
* {{Olympedia}}
* {{Commonwealth Games Federation}}

{{1974 New Zealand British Commonwealth Games team}}
{{1976 New Zealand Olympic team}}
{{1982 New Zealand Commonwealth Games team}}
{{1984 New Zealand Olympic team}}
{{1986 New Zealand Commonwealth Games team}}
{{1988 New Zealand Olympic team}}
{{1990 New Zealand Commonwealth Games team}}
{{Footer Commonwealth Champions 5000m Women}}
{{Footer New Zealand NC 800 m women}}
{{Footer New Zealand NC 1500 m women}}
{{Footer New Zealand NC 3000 m women}}
{{Footer New Zealand NC 5000 m women}}
{{Footer New Zealand NC 10,000 m women}}
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