Happy birthday to Joan Benoit, two-time women's Boston Marathon champion. Benoit holds the fastest times of any American woman at the Chicago Marathon and the Olympic Marathon; she held the record at the Boston Marathon for 28 years. Her record-making appearance at the 1984 Olympics marked the first time the women's marathon was an event, thus making Benoit the original Olympic women's marathon champion.

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