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...

Country Music Singer/Songwriter Joan Benoit (born 1957), American first women's Olympic marathon champion Joaquín Benoit (born 1977), Dominican professional...

introduced at the 1984 Summer Olympics (Los Angeles, US) and was won by Joan Benoit of the United States with a time of 2 hours 24 minutes and 52 seconds...

came from 28 countries. 44 finished the race. The world record holder Joan Benoit of the United States won the gold medal by 1m 26, with the silver medal...

Castella Khalid Khannouchi Kelvin Kiptum Haile Gebrselassie Patrick Makau Joan Benoit Naoko Takahashi Catherine Ndereba Paula Radcliffe Brigid Kosgei Eliud...

world record in the women's open race of 2:42:24, and eight years later, Joan Benoit beat a world record that had only been set the day before at the London...

Jr., Mia Hamm, Michael Jordan, John McEnroe, Jerry Rice, Nolan Ryan, Joan Benoit Samuelson, and Mike Schmidt. The campus was closed temporarily for deep...

1980 The Hague IAAF, ARRS 1:13:26 Joan Benoit  United States 18 January 1981 New Orleans IAAF, ARRS 1:11:16 Joan Benoit  United States 7 March 1981 San...

record was 2:22:43 set in the 1983 Boston Marathon by Joan Benoit. Later in 1985 she lost to Benoit in the Chicago Marathon, running 2:23:05 for second...

figurines of a pony-tailed girl running that were given as trophies to Joan Benoit Samuelson, Julie Brown, and Julie Isphording, the top three women marathoners...

Running legends Bill Rodgers and 1984 Olympic Marathon Gold Medalist Joan Benoit Samuelson also compete yearly. The run is primarily sponsored by the...

producer Joan Bennett (1910–1990), American actress Joan Benoit (born 1957), American marathon runner Joan Bielski (1923–2012), Australian activist Joan Blackman...

Moscow. At the 1984 Summer Olympics, she was beaten in the marathon by Joan Benoit, placing second to take the silver medal. In the 1988 Summer Olympics...

historian and professor of art history and archaeology at Bryn Mawr College Joan Benoit (1975), distance runner; gold medalist in the first ever women's Olympic...

guiding Armstrong for the first 10 miles (16 km) of the race, while Joan Benoit Samuelson oversaw the next 10 miles (16 km), and Hicham El Guerrouj the...

1969 John C. Argue, 2004 Count Baillet-Latour, 1964 Elgin Baylor, 2009 Joan Benoit, 2017 Thomas Bradley, 2019 Judge William A. Bowen, 1955 Coliseum Commission...

America's Marathon/Chicago and opened up the way for appearance payments. Joan Benoit Samuelson described the Chicago Marathons of the mid-1980s as "The World's...

the course record. Fourteen minutes into the 1984 Olympic marathon, Joan Benoit began to pull away from the rest of the pack. She went on to win in a...

explorer Christopher McCormick, businessman Edward C. Plummer, historian Joan Benoit Samuelson, Olympic marathon gold medalist (1984) Stephen Gill Spottswood...

run the Olympic marathon at the 1984 Summer Olympics, when American Joan Benoit won the inaugural race in a time of 2 hours and 24 minutes. In March...

Women's track and road athletes Evelyn Ashford Sharrieffa Barksdale Joan Benoit Jeanette Bolden Cindy Bremser Valerie Brisco-Hooks Alice Brown Judi Brown...

Joan Benoit won gold in the first ever women's Olympic marathon during the 1984 games....

Spurwink Congregational Church Spurwink River Two Lights State Park Joan Benoit, gold medalist in 1984 Olympic Marathon Joy Williams, fiction writer...

32:02.3  Joan Benoit (USA) 36:17.7 12th 1984  David Murphy (USA) 32:17  Joan Nesbit (USA) 37:00 11th 1983  Joseph Nzau (KEN) 32:20  Joan Benoit (USA) 36:21...

helped to prolong the careers of athletes such as Bobby Orr, Willis Reed, Joan Benoit and Mary Lou Retton. For this, Jackson was named one of Sports Illustrated's...

ice hockey, and goes running, with Michael Jordan, John McEnroe, and Joan Benoit vouching for Jackson's knowledge of their sports (Wayne Gretzky, when...

Norway's Grete Waitz were all part of a phenomenon that culminated in Joan Benoit's 1984 Olympic Marathon victory, which itself inspired more women to run...

Games Gold Silver Bronze edit 1984 Los Angeles details Joan Benoit  United States 2:24:52 Grete Waitz  Norway 2:26:18 Rosa Mota  Portugal 2:26:57 1988...

Marathon with two friends. He assembled a pace team of Alberto Salazar, Joan Benoit Samuelson, and Hicham El Guerrouj to help him reach three hours. He finished...

marathon for women was held for the first time at the Olympics (won by Joan Benoit of the U.S.). The event was also remembered for Swiss runner Gabriela...