FARMINGTON — University of Maine graduates got an emotional sendoff during Saturday’s commencement from their senior class speaker and Joan Benoit Samuelson, a hero and role model for women everywhere ...

LOS ANGELES, Aug 22 (Reuters) - Joan Benoit Samuelson, the first women's Olympic marathon champion, hopes the return of the Summer Games to Los Angeles in 2028 will propel a new generation of American ...

Author and cross-country coach Martin Dugard continues to churn out new books. His newest book is "The Long Run," which discusses the 1970s running boom.

Joan Samuelson waves to the crowd prior to the start of the 1994 Bix 7. She was given bib No. 361, the number she wore while winning the first Olympic women’s marathon 10 years earlier.

In 1984, under a punishing California sun, American distance runner Joan Benoit Samuelson ran into L.A. Memorial Coliseum and into history, winning the inaugural Olympic women’s marathon. It was a ...

Jul. 30—The core reason for Joan Benoit Samuelson founding the Beach to Beacon 10K came to her in the dark, about 600 yards from completing the marathon victory that made her a running legend. "I had ...

Joan Samuelson remembers the day very well, much better than Bill Rodgers does. She was a 19-year-old college sophomore, a field hockey player and aspiring distance runner at Bowdoin College, and she ...

Joan Benoit-Samuelson, the 1984 Olympic Marathon Champion, joined fans in Eugene to run in celebration of the 40 year anniversary of Title IX.