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    Mary Teresa Slaney (formerly Tabb, née Decker, born August 4, 1958) is an American retired middle-distance and long-distance runner. During her career...
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  • Kym Karath (Film: "The Sound of Music") is 64. Hall of Fame track star Mary Decker Slaney is 64. Actor Lauren Tom is 63. See also: "Almanac". The News-Item...
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  • student, he worked sealcoating driveways in Erie. Decker graduated from the College of William and Mary in 1985 with a BA in English and from Carnegie Mellon...
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  • IAAF recognized times to the hundredth of a second starting in 1981. Note: Decker ran 4:17.55 indoors in Houston on 16 February 1980, but this time was rejected...
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    Mary Lou Retton (born January 24, 1968) is an American retired gymnast. At the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, she won a gold medal in the individual...
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    race as a duel between Budd and world champion Mary Decker of USA. However, experts expected that Decker's main competition would be Romanian Maricica Puică...
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    The race is still remembered because of the fall of world champion Mary Decker after a collision with Zola Budd. The winning margin was 3.51 seconds...
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    Romania won the 3000 meters, known for the Mary Decker vs. Zola Budd rivalry. World champion and heavy favorite Decker fell after a controversial collision...
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    athlete Jackie Joyner-Kersee. Griffith and Joyner had one daughter together, Mary Ruth Joyner, born November 15, 1990. On September 21, 1998, Griffith Joyner...
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  • Mary Cecilia Cain (born May 3, 1996) is an American professional middle distance runner from Bronxville, New York. Cain was the 2014 World Junior Champion...
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    Salazar moved into coaching. By 1996 this included middle-distance runner Mary Decker, who at the age of 37 qualified for the 5000 meters at the Atlanta Olympics...
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    Alice Brown Judi Brown Julie Brown Robin Campbell Chandra Cheeseborough Mary Decker Diane Dixon Benita Fitzgerald-Brown Kim Gallagher Randy Givens Florence...
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    4:00.72 Natalya Gorelova  Russia 27 February 2003 Moscow 21 4:00.8h Mary Decker  United States 8 February 1980 New York City 4:00.80+ Gabriela DeBues-Stafford...
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     Karoline Nemetz (SWE)  Ingrid Kristiansen (NOR) 1983 Helsinki details  Mary Decker (USA)  Brigitte Kraus (FRG)  Tatyana Kovalenko-Kazankina (URS) 1987 Rome...
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    shared the Sports Illustrated Sportsman of the Year with American gymnast Mary Lou Retton in 1984, the same year he took the Athlete's Oath for the 1984...
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  • Lindsey Decker (1923–1994), American artist Mary Beth Decker (b. 1981), American model Richard Decker, cartoonist in The New Yorker Jorel Decker, musical...
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    Hockey Team 1981: Sugar Ray Leonard 1982: Wayne Gretzky 1983: Mary Decker 1984: Edwin Moses & Mary Lou Retton 1985: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar 1986: Joe Paterno 1987:...
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  • metres and 800 metres events, setting a world record of 47.99 seconds. Mary Decker enjoyed her best competition performance, taking the golds in the women's...
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    Hockey Team 1981: Sugar Ray Leonard 1982: Wayne Gretzky 1983: Mary Decker 1984: Edwin Moses & Mary Lou Retton 1985: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar 1986: Joe Paterno 1987:...
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  • Joyner won three gold medals at the 1988 Olympic Games. Their daughter, Mary Ruth, was born in 1990. Griffith-Joyner died from an epileptic seizure at...
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  • 1983 Mary Decker  United States Track and field Double world champion 1984 Edwin Moses  United States Track and field Olympic gold medalist Mary Lou Retton...
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  • thing missing from the otherwise brilliant career of distance runner Mary Decker Spirit of the Marathon II 2013 Documentary Marathon Runners train for...
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    v t e World champions in women's 1500 metres 1983: Mary Decker (USA) 1987: Tetyana Dorovskikh (URS) 1991: Hassiba Boulmerka (ALG) 1993: Liu Dong (CHN)...
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  • Brian Lanker, Kenny Moore, Alberto Salazar, Erich Segal, Frank Shorter, Mary Decker, Mac Wilkins, and Lasse Virén, among others. It premiered on June 4,...
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  • the two tallied well over seven world age group records. Mary Etta, a contemporary of Mary Decker from the San Francisco Bay Area, is the youngest child...
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    Alice Brown Judi Brown Julie Brown Robin Campbell Chandra Cheeseborough Mary Decker Diane Dixon Benita Fitzgerald-Brown Kim Gallagher Randy Givens Florence...
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    Sir Matthew Decker, 1st Baronet (1679 – 18 March 1749) (Dutch: Mattijs Decker) of Richmond Green in Surrey, was a Dutch-born English merchant and economist...
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    Hockey Team 1981: Sugar Ray Leonard 1982: Wayne Gretzky 1983: Mary Decker 1984: Edwin Moses & Mary Lou Retton 1985: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar 1986: Joe Paterno 1987:...
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    2005 World Championships in Athletics. The first two women's champions Mary Decker and Tatyana Dorovskikh both completed 1500 m/3000 m World Championships...
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    Hockey Team 1981: Sugar Ray Leonard 1982: Wayne Gretzky 1983: Mary Decker 1984: Edwin Moses & Mary Lou Retton 1985: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar 1986: Joe Paterno 1987:...
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