33 female athletes whose names you should know


[post_page_title]Joan Benoit Samuelson[/post_page_title]
Joan Benoit Samuelson is a marathon runner and record setter. Back in 1979 she won the Boston Marathon. Just a few years later, in 1983, the marathon runner was able to set a world record while winning the Boston Marathon, and she did it just two years after she had surgery on her Achilles tendon.

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Joan Benoit Samuelson

A year later, in 1984, she won a gold at the Olympic games in California and in 1985 she set an American record at the Chicago Marathon.

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