Joan Benoit
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Joan Benoit Samuelson 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. She held the fastest
Benoit in 2008
Benoit in 1984
Grete Waitz
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Grete Waitz, née Andersen was a Norwegian marathon runner and former world record holder. In 1979, at the New York City Marathon, she became the first woman in history to run the marathon in under two
Joan Benoit
…marathon success with a victory in 1983, setting a course record of 2:22:43. That took more than two minutes off the world's best time, set by Norway's Grete Waitz in the London Marathon only a day earlier. Her Boston record was not broken for another 11 years. In March 1984, Benoit injured her knee during a 20-mile…
Waitz in New York City in 2010