Women Distance Runners: Past & Present

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