존 베노이트 사무엘손

소개

조앤 베노잇 새뮤얼슨(영어: Joan Benoit Samuelson, 1957년 5월 16일~)은 1984년 하계 올림픽 여자 마라톤에서 금메달을 획득한 미국의 전직 육상 선수로 최초의 여성 올림픽 마라톤 챔피언이었다.

Joan Benoit Samuelson, née Joan Benoit, is an American marathon runner who was the first women's Olympic Games marathon champion, winning the gold medal at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. She held the fastest time for an American woman at the Chicago Marathon for 32 years after winning the race in 1985. Her time at the Boston Marathon was the fastest time by an American woman in that race for 28 years. She was inducted into the Maine Women's Hall of Fame in 2000.