Michiko "Miki" Suwa Gorman was an American marathon runner of Japanese ancestry.
12 Facts About Miki Gorman
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Miki Gorman is the only woman to win both the Boston and New York City marathons twice and is the first of only two woman runners to win both marathons in the same year.
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Miki Gorman set an unofficial world's best for the women's marathon of 2:46:36 at the Western Hemisphere Marathon on December 3,1973, just four years after she started to run.
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Miki Gorman won the New York City Marathon twice, in 1976 and 1977, at the age of 41 and 42 respectively.
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Miki Gorman set a personal best during her 1976 victory with a time of 2:39:11, then the second fastest women's marathon in history and just a minute off the world record.
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Miki Gorman participated in the 1977 World Masters Athletics Championships in Gothenburg, Sweden and in the 1979 World Masters Athletics Championships that were held in Hanover, West Germany.
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In 1978, Miki Gorman set a women's world record in the half-marathon.
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Frequently injured in subsequent years, Miki Gorman competed sporadically through the years 1978 to 1981.
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Miki Gorman decided to retire from competitive running in 1982.
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Miki Gorman was inducted into both the Road Runners Club of America Hall of Fame and the USATF Masters Hall of Fame, as well as the National Distance Running Hall of Fame.
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In 1981, a film called "Little Champion", starring Yoko Shimada and Chris Mitchum and documenting the events of Miki Gorman's life, was released.
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Miki Gorman died from cancer at the age of 80 in Bellingham, Washington.