Suzy Favor Hamilton was born on August 8,1968 and is an American former middle-distance runner.
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18 Facts About Suzy Favor
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Suzy Favor was born in 1968 to Conrad and Rachel Favor in Stevens Point, Wisconsin.
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Suzy Favor graduated from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1991.
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Suzy Favor attended and competed at Stevens Point Area Senior High, graduating in 1986.
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Suzy Favor was the US Junior Record Holder at 1500m and won 3 National Junior Titles in High School.
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Suzy Favor was named by Scholastic Sports magazine as one of the top 100 High School Athletes of the Century and was inducted into the US National High School Sports Hall of Fame in 2010.
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Suzy Favor won a record nine NCAA championships, 32 Big-Ten championships and a silver medal in the 1989 World University Games.
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Suzy Favor won four USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships and three USA Indoor Track and Field Championships all in the 1500 meters.
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In 1991 and 1992, Favor was a volunteer assistant cross country coach at Pepperdine University in Malibu, California.
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Suzy Favor made the finals of the 1500 meters in 2000 with the second best qualifying time.
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In December 2012, after being confronted by a reporter, Suzy Favor Hamilton admitted that she had worked as an escort.
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Suzy Favor has said that her decision to become an escort was made under the influence of her antidepressant medication, a misdiagnosis of her bipolar disorder, and with the full involvement of her now-ex-husband.
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Suzy Favor cited the effects of the suicide of her brother, Dan, in 1999, on her condition.
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Suzy Favor Hamilton lost several sponsorships and athletic business relationships, including with Nike.
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However, Suzy Favor subsequently was inducted into the inaugural class of the Collegiate Athletics Hall of Fame, along with athletes such as Carl Lewis, Jackie Joyner-Kersee, and Steve Prefontaine.
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Suzy Favor is an artist and wrote her memoir Fast Girl about healing from bipolar disorder.
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Suzy Favor married Mark Hamilton, then a pitcher on the university baseball team in 1991; they were divorced in 2021.
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