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Marker detail: First Women

Caption: Marker detail: First Women's Olympic Marathon
Additional Description: A group of runners rounds a curve in the race that will determine who competes for the United States in the first women’s Olympic marathon.

Winner Joan Benoit breaks the finish tape at Olympia’s marathon trials with a time of 2:31:04. Benoit went on to win the Olympic gold medal in Los Angeles, where Norway’s Grete Waitz earned the silver and Rosa Mota of Portugal took the bronze.
Submitted: January 14, 2019, by Cosmos Mariner of Cape Canaveral, Florida.
Database Locator Identification Number: p460624
File Size: 3.106 Megabytes

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