Marleen Renders (born 24 December 1968 in Diest) is a retired female long-distance runner from Belgium, who represented her native country thrice at the Summer Olympics: in 1988, 1996 and 2000. In 1998 she won the Berlin Marathon, clocking 2:25:22, while she twice triumphed in Paris: 2000 and 2002.
She was victorious at the Berlin Half Marathon in 1997 and 1998 and was the 2003 winner of the City-Pier-City Loop half marathon in the Hague. She won the 20 km of Brussels nine times consecutively from 1996 to 2004, which included a course record run of 1:07:46 in 2002.
Renders also competed in cross country running and won Belgium's 1996–97 Lotto Cross Cup series.
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