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Joan Benoit Samuelson (born May 16, 1957) is an American marathon runner who was the first women's Olympic Games marathon champion, winning the gold medal at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. [2] She held the fastest time for an American woman at the Chicago Marathon for 32 years after winning the race in 1985.
Cooksey won the San Diego Half Marathon on 26 Aug in 1:15:04. [9] Waitz' winning time there was a world record. During 1978, the world record in the women's marathon was 2:34:47.5 set on 10 September 1977 by Christa Vahlensieck at the Berlin Marathon. [10] In 1981, the 1978 NYC course was remeasured and found 151 meters short.
Last summer in Paris, Sifan Hassan won the women’s marathon in an Olympic-record 2:22.55 after taking bronze in both the 5,000 and 10,000 meters, events that weren’t even on the Olympic ...
It was the first time a women's marathon had been held at the Olympic Games. The 50 competitors came from 28 countries. 44 finished the race. [ 1 ] The world record holder Joan Benoit of the United States won the gold medal by 1m 26, with the silver medal going to the 1983 World champion Grete Waitz of Norway, and bronze to Rosa Mota of Portugal.
Rosie M. Vivas [1] (née Ruiz; June 21, 1953 – July 8, 2019) [2] was a Cuban fraudster who, among other schemes, was declared the winner in the female category for the 84th Boston Marathon in 1980, only to have her title stripped eight days after the race when it was discovered that she had not run the entire course.
Ágnes Keleti, the oldest living Olympic medal winner and Holocaust survivor, died Thursday morning. The 103-year-old Hungarian died in Budapest, according to Olympics.com. Keleti died after ...
Oldest man to complete a marathon, at age 98 [7] Emil Zátopek Czechoslovakia: 1952 (6) 1956 Won Olympic gold in his first marathon in Olympic record time Sondre Nordstad Moen Norway: 2:05:48 First european runner to finish under 2:06:00 (Fukuoka, 2017).
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