1. Joan Ullyot was an American physician, author, and runner.
10 Facts About Joan Ullyot
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Joan Ullyot was one of the key figures in successfully lobbying for a women's marathon in the Olympic Games.
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Joan Ullyot Wingate Lamb was born on July 1,1940, in Chicago, Illinois.
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Joan Ullyot went to Wellesley College, graduating with a degree in German literature in 1961.
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Joan Ullyot was an exercise physiologist associated with the Institute of Health Research in San Francisco, and a project director at the Research Institute of Laboratory Medicine at the Pacific Medical Center.
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Joan Ullyot wrote Running Free: A Book for Women Runners and their Friends, and an updated edition of her first book, The New Women's Running.
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Joan Ullyot wrote a column in Runner's World magazine, and consulted and lectured on women's nutrition and fitness.
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Joan Ullyot won ten marathons, and won the masters category at the Boston Marathon in 1984.
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Joan Ullyot was inducted into the Road Runners Club of America Distance Running Hall of Fame in 2019.
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Joan Ullyot died in Palo Alto, California, in 2021, aged 80 years.