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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 at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. [2]
Joan Benoit Samuelson is an American long-distance runner who won the first Olympic gold medal awarded for the women’s marathon, which debuted at the 1984 Summer Games in Los Angeles. During her career, she also held U.S. records for the 10 km, the half-marathon, and the marathon as well as a world.
Mar 4, 2024 · On Sunday in Tokyo, Joan Benoit Samuelson completed all six World Marathon Majors, earning her final star at age 66. The first ever Olympic women’s marathon champion finished the Tokyo Marathon...
Aug 5, 2014 · Joan Benoit Samuelson - 1984 Olympic Marathon Winner. Races & Places. Looking Back at Joan Benoit Samuelson’s Olympic Marathon Win. Thirty-five years ago today, she won the first women’s...
Aug 10, 2024 · On Sunday (11), the world’s best women’s marathon runners will race for Olympic glory in the final athletics event of the Paris 2024 Games. It was 40 years ago, at the 1984 Los Angeles Games, that Joan Benoit became the inaugural women’s Olympic marathon champion.
A Champion for Women in Distance Running. Joan Benoit Samuelson shocked the world when she made a risky early break at the inaugural women’s Olympic Marathon in Los Angeles in 1984. She ran alone for the final 21 miles of the race and became an instant icon when she won the gold medal.
Joan Benoit was the winner of the first Olympic women’s marathon at the Olympic Games Los Angeles 1984. Born in Cape Elizabeth, Maine, Benoit earned All-American honors at North Carolina State in 1977 and 1978. She then entered the 1979 Boston Marathon as a relative unknown, yet won the by race knocking eight minutes off the competition record.
Joan Benoit Samuelson is a soccer mom these days, more interested in her kids' games than in running marathons. Fifteen years ago, she won the gold medal in Los Angeles in the first women's Olympic marathon. Now, at 42, she still runs every day and last fall qualified for the 2000 U.S. Olympic Trials.
On 18 April 1983, Joan Benoit won the Boston Marathon in a time of 2:22:43. This time still stood as the world best when the inaugural women's Olympic marathon was held on 5 August 1984. Benoit qualified for the Games by winning the U.S. Olympic trial only seventeen days after undergoing arthroscopic surgery on her right knee.
Oct 24, 2008 · Some of her competitors hadn't been born the year Joan Benoit Samuelson ran her first Boston Marathon, in 1979—a race she won in 2:35:15. Now, at almost 51, her goal time was 15 minutes...
