**Helalia Lukeiko Johannes** is a Namibian distance runner and the most successful marathoner her country has produced. Born August 13, 1980 in the village of Oshali in the Oshana Region, she holds Namibian national records at 10 km, 20 km, half marathon, and the full marathon.
Her breakthrough on the global stage came at the Dublin Marathon, which she won in 2011 in 2:30:35 and again in 2016 in 2:32:32. She added the Cape Town Marathon title in 2018 in 2:29:28 and won the Nagoya Women's Marathon in 2019 in 2:22:25, a major step up in class against a World Marathon Majors-level field.
The signature result of her career came at the 2019 World Athletics Championships in Doha, where at age 39 she won bronze in the marathon. The following year she ran her lifetime personal best of 2:19:52 to finish third at the Valencia Marathon, breaking her own Namibian national record and posting a world-leading time at the time.
Johannes represented Namibia at the 2008 Beijing and 2012 London Olympic Games and won Commonwealth Games gold at Gold Coast 2018 in 2:32:40, Namibia's second-ever Commonwealth gold. She runs for the Namibia Defence Force athletic club.