Women Distance Runners: Past & Present

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Across
  1. 3. Famously credited for drinking hornet's juice
  2. 4. Oldest runner - male or female - to win an Olympic marathon
  3. 6. Norte Dame standout whose first marathon was the 2020 US Olympic Marathon Trials
  4. 7. Won two world xc championship titles and ran for two different countries in two Olympic games - all barefoot
  5. 8. US Olympic bronze in Barcelona
  6. 12. Won Western States 14 times
  7. 13. 2021 US 10K Olympian has a personal best of 4:44 in the mile
  8. 17. AKA the Baby Faced Destroyer
  9. 18. First women to run in the most famous US marathon
  10. 22. Medaled in 3 different Olympic 10K races
  11. 23. 8-time US national xc champion & Olympic bronze medalist who holds the American marathon record
Down
  1. 1. Badger 2021 US 10K Olympian won 2 Big Ten XC Championships
  2. 2. American who won the first women's Olympic marathon
  3. 5. 2021 US 5K Olympian who will be getting married to her coach this fall
  4. 9. 2021 US Olympian qualified for both the 5K and the 10K
  5. 10. 2021 US Olympic marathoner just gave birth in January
  6. 11. In November she broke 3 American records in one race, but scratched from the Olympic trials due to injury
  7. 14. Originally a nordic skier, she was the first athlete to win world titles in track, road racing and xc in the same year
  8. 15. 2021 US 5K Olympian runs for the Bowerman Track Club
  9. 16. British runner who won a famous "marathon" in South Africa and holds the course record for a famous 100 mile race in the US
  10. 19. Currently holds world records in both the track 5K and 10K
  11. 20. This Scott is considered by many to be the G.O.A.T female fell runner
  12. 21. 2021 US Olympian was a 9-time NCAA champion at Texas Tech