All she did was run the 7-mile course in 54 minutes, 17 seconds to win the women’s 65-69 age group by a margin of about 6 ½ ...

From being chased by her brothers around the house, to being the first-ever gold medal winner in the Olympic women’s marathon ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This article originally appeared on Womens Running Joan Benoit Samuelson has a prominent place in running history. At the first ...

As Joan Benoit Samuelson negotiated the hairpin turn into the Coliseum tunnel, ran past the USC locker room and onto the stadium’s red synthetic track for the final 400 meters of the 1984 Olympic ...

Jul. 28—Joan Benoit was already the world-record holder in the women's marathon. The 27-year-old Cape Elizabeth native and Bowdoin College graduate had won the Boston Marathon twice. But this was ...

Forty years after Joan Benoit Samuelson’s historic victory at Boston in 1979, she returned to the course and completed the race in 3:04. She was hoping to come within 40 minutes of her 2:35:15 victory ...

Joan Benoit Samuelson, the first Olympic women’s marathon champion in 1984, ran her first 26.2-mile race in three years at Sunday’s London Marathon and won her age group. Benoit Samuelson, 65, clocked ...

Erika Sahlman’s first marathon was not what she expected. And while running that virtual race, she got an unexpected visit from a previous Chicago Marathon champion. Sahlman ran the marathon in honor ...

Joan Benoit Samuelson holds an American flag in celebration after winning gold in the women's marathon at the 1984 L.A. Olympic Games. (Lennox McLendon / Associated Press) As Joan Benoit Samuelson ...

The “logical” goal, according to two-time Boston Marathon champion Joan Benoit Samuelson, was to run within 40 minutes of her winning time 40 years ago at Boston, which was 2:35:15. But Joanie, the ...