Joan Benoit Samuelson, the first women's Olympic marathon champion, still competes today. She recently finished a 10K race in ...

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 ...

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 ...

Marathon world record holder Sabastian Sawe is injured and out of comeback run in Berlin Marathon world record holder Sabastian Sawe says he is injured and will miss the Berlin Marathon, which was set ...

Roger Federer celebrated upon his return to the US Open for an exhibition against Andy Roddick Five-time U.S. Open champion Roger Federer returned to Arthur Ashe Stadium on Tuesday night to play one ...

It’s been 40 years since Joan Benoit Samuelson took the first steps in her pivotal role within American women’s distance running. And she’s celebrating by returning to the race that started it all. In ...

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 ...

Joan Benoit Samuelson is 61 years old and she's still running. The 1985 Olympic gold medalist will return to the starting line of the Boston Marathon in Hopkinton, Mass., 40 years after her first ...

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 ...

On May 28, for the first time in 217 Commencement Ceremonies, the College presented all of this year’s honorary degrees to women as part of its celebration of fifty years of women at the school.

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 ...