Joan Benoit was 1st to win this Olympic event, finally offered for women in ‘84
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Joan Benoit - Wikipedia  Joan Benoit Samuelson (born May 16, 1957) is an American marathon runner who won gold at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, the year that the women's marathon was introduced. As a result, she was the first-ever women's Olympic marathon champion. ... Benoit enjoyed success at non-marathon distances as well, winning the...
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30 Years On: The First Women's U.S. Olympic Trials Marathon ...  May 12, 2014 ... The 1984 women's U.S. Olympic Trials Marathon helped changed running forever. ... longest running event on the track for women was the 1500-meter run. ... Two-time Boston Marathon winner Joan Benoit (Samuelson) from Maine ... days after arthroscopic knee surgery to win the historic race in 2:31:04.
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USA Women's Olympics Marathon Team Trials Complete History ...  2008 USA Women's Olympic Trials Marathon - Complete History 1984-2008 ... This historic event marked a gold medal win for American running legend Joan Benoit ... 1st thru 5th respectively), 15 women qualified at the 2007 USA Women's ...... Jen Rhines, finally extending the talents shown in shorter events, rounded out...
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Joan Benoit Wins the First Women's Marathon Gold - Olympics  Joan Benoit becomes an Olympic champion at the 1984 Games, when the women's marathon is first introduced as an Olympic sport. After recovering from a k.
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The Historic Series on Olympic Running (X): Women's Marathon ...  Aug 14, 2004 ... Today, Friday, August 13th, the Olympic Games are beginning in Athens. ... At the 1st BERLIN MARATHON in 1974, Jutta von Haase, one of 9 female ... Finally in 1984, women were allowed to participate in the marathon at the ... Joan Benoit (USA) left her top-calibre competitors behind her at 4 kilometres.
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CNN.com - Then & Now: Ekaterina Gordeeva - Jun 19, 2005  Jun 22, 2005 ... In 1995, Olympic gold medalist Ekaterina Gordeeva lost her figure skating ... Ten years later, the athlete still finds comfort on the ice and has ... In 1984, the duo won the Junior World Ice Skating Championships in ... The pair captured the gold medal in their very first Olympic competition, and that same year...
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Nadia Comaneci - Athlete, Gymnast - Biography.com  2 days ago ... At age 14, Nadia Comaneci became the first woman to score a ... Early Life and Career; 1976 Olympic Games; 1980 Olympics and Later Years ... That is my secret. ... At the 1980 Olympics, Comaneci won gold medals for the balance ... Nadia Comaneci, July 1976 (Photo:&nbsp;Central Press/Getty Images)...
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ESPN Classic - Billie Jean won for all women - ESPN.com  She defeated such magnificent players as Martina Navratilova, Chris Evert and Margaret Court. ... "I thought it would set us back 50 years if I didn't win that match," she said. ... She was the only female athlete on the list, and one of only four athletes ... King became the first woman athlete to earn $100,000 in prize money in a...
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Jackie Joyner-Kersee | American athlete | Britannica.com  American athlete, considered by many to be the greatest female athlete ever, ... she became the first athlete to win the heptathlon in consecutive Olympic Games. ... Jackie Joyner-Kersee competing in the long jump during the heptathlon competition at the 1998  ... Soviet pole-vaulter Sergey Bubka won his first gold medal.
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Sports  Olympics | Jon The Blogcentric  Aug 17, 2016 ... Just after finishing out of the final at her event in Berlin, she would set a world ... Up until 1984, professionals weren't allowed to compete at the Olympics ..... They entered that event at the Worlds and won. ..... Also for the first time came a gold medal in men's figure skating by ...... He wasn't so lucky in 1999.
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J! Archive - Show #1311, aired 1990-04-23  In 1932, when women could enter only 3 events, this American woman won 3 ... In 1948 Gretchen Fraser became the first American to win a gold medal in this...
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1984 Olympic women's marathon champion Joan Benoit Samuelson ...  May 12, 2012 ... Joan Benoit Samuelson, the first female Olympic gold medalist in the ... and the 25th anniversary of her Olympic gold medal earned in Los Angeles. ... in Los Angeles, just 17 days after undergoing arthroscopic knee surgery. ... she won the Boston Marathon in 2:35:15 in 1979, setting an American record.
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Ken Jennings' Final Jeopardy! Clues Quiz - By purplesteve6 - Sporcle  She's the first female track & field athlete to win medals in 5 different events at a single Olympics .... Its solo female winner is awarded the Venus Rosewater Dish.
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January 16, 1982 - Beth Heiden grief has Docter wary | Chicago ...  Jan 16, 1982 ... She was 16 during the Lake Placid Olympics, asd wherever Beth went, ... She saw her heroine crushed by the that a bronze medal in ... as dominant among women skaters as her brother, Eric, was among the men. ... Sure, she d like to be a world champion-that s even harder than winning one Olympic race.
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Free Flashcards about WOMEN IN SPORTS - StudyStack  IN 2004 THIS TENNIS GREAT, AT 47, BECAME THE OLDEST TENNIS COMPETITOR IN OLYMPIC HISTORY, MARTINA NAVRATILOVA ... IN 1999, FOR THE FIRST TIME IN ITS 75-YEAR HISTORY, WHEATIES BEGAN FEATURING ... WOMEN HAVE COMPETED IN THIS OLYMPIC SPORT SINCE 1924, FENCING.
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Game Recap & Final Jeopardy  June 2, 2004 (Ken Jennings Game ...  Jun 2, 2016 ... Final Jeopardy! clue: She's the first female track & field athlete to win medals in 5 different events at a single Olympics. Click/Tap Here for...
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1992 olympics, Yamaguchi and Figure skating on Pinterest  Kristi Yamaguchi was the first American woman to win the Olympics in figure ... American gold medalist at 1976 Olympics held in Innsbruck for figure skating. .... The Definitive Ranking Of Olympic Ladies Figure Skating Gold Medalists Since 1980 ..... American Charles Jewtraw became the first Winter Games champion by...
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Figure Skating - The Canadian Encyclopedia  Brian Orser was one of Canada's outstanding figure skaters. He is shown here in his silver medal performance at the 1988 Olympic Games .... second in the 1930 women's world championships, she became the first Canadian woman to .... Ice Revue, an ice show featuring Olympic champion Norwegian Sonja Henie and...
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American Mary Lou Retton Claims All Around Title - Olympics  At the Olympic Games in Los Angeles 1984, American young Mary Lou Retton, ... gold by just 0.05 points, becoming the first American woman to win this event. ... 2 silver (vault and all-around team) and 2 bronze medals (uneven bars and floor). Artistic Gymnastics All Around Women's Final - Los Angeles 1984 Summer...
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ALBERTVILLE - Yamaguchi Has the Delicate and Golden Touch ...  Kristi Yamaguchi tonight completed a stunning and dramatic yearlong rise from ... national champion to become the first American since Dorothy Hamill in 1976 to win the Olympic title in women's figure skating. ... a fourth gold medal for the Albertville Olympics, she symbolized just how much ... Published: February 22, 1992.
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Who Were The First U.S. Women To Win Olympic Gold In Each Sport?  Mar 24, 2016 ... When she earned slalom gold, it was the first Olympic gold medal won ... Fraser's road to the Olympics was a long one, as she missed out on ... An underdog in 1948, she shocked the world and became the most decorated U.S. athlete at .... Romanian crews had won five straight women's events before the...