12 Facts About Lynn Jennings

Lynn Jennings is one of the best female American runners of all time, with a range from 1500 meters to the marathon.

Lynn Jennings excelled at all three of the sport's major disciplines: track, road, and cross country.

Lynn Jennings won the bronze in the Women's 10,000 metres at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics.

Lynn Jennings set a world indoor record in the 5000 meter run in 1990.

Lynn Jennings is a nine-time champion of the USA Cross Country Championships and won the IAAF World Cross Country Championships three times consecutively from 1990 to 1992.

Lynn Jennings ran on the boys' cross country team, as there was no girls' team at the time.

Lynn Jennings won the US National Cross Country Championship nine times.

Lynn Jennings ran the Boston Marathon unofficially in 1978 and finished in 2:46, a time which would have placed third in the open women's division and a record for her age group '.

Lynn Jennings failed to qualify for the 1984 Olympics, but was the bronze medalist at 10,000 meters in the 1992 Summer Olympics, held in Barcelona, Spain.

Lynn Jennings's time of 31:19.89 was a new American record, and it lasted until May 3,2002, when it was broken by Deena Kastor in Palo Alto, California.

Lynn Jennings won the World Cross Country Championships in 1990,1991, and 1992.

Lynn Jennings has become an accomplished masters rower, winning a gold medal in 2012 and bronze medal in 2011, in the women's grand master single scull event at the Head of the Charles Regatta, one of the most competitive and prestigious long-distance rowing races in the world.