Joan Benoit
Olympic athlete
1957 –
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Who is Joan Benoit?
Joan Benoit Samuelson 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 Samuelson still holds the fastest times for an American woman at the Chicago Marathon and the Olympic Marathon. Her time at the Boston Marathon was the fastest time by an American woman at that race for 28 years.
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- Born
- May 16, 1957
Cape Elizabeth - Also known as
- Joan Benoit Samuelson
- Spouses
- Children
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Bowdoin College
- Cape Elizabeth High School
- North Carolina State University
- Lived in
- Maine
- Cape Elizabeth
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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