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Title: Joan Benoit wins women's marathon
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Creator: Gulker, Chris
Date Created and/or Issued: 1984
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: Used in the Exhibit: Play by Play - A Century of L.A. Sports Photography, 1889-1989.
Until 1984, the Olympic program for women did not include running events longer than 1,500 meters, in part because of the outdated belief that they were too "fragile" for such distances. In the inaugural women's marathon, Joan Benoit put an end to such talk as she raced away from her chief rival, Norway's Grete Waitz. Spectators lined the 26.2-mile route to cheer on the competitors, the exception being a three-mile stretch along the Marino Freeway that was closed to the public. Behind Benoit, Switzerland's Gabriela Andersen-Schiess staggered to the finish. Photo dated: August 6, 1984.
Type: Image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00049042
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box Olympics (1974).
CARL0000052793
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/17821
Subject: Olympic Games--(23rd :--1984 :--Los Angeles, Calif.)
Marathon running--California--Los Angeles
Runners (Sports)
Los Angeles Herald-Examiner photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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