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Women Athletes Break Records in 1979 Highlights
The year 1979 marks women setting records and gaining national attention in sports. Joan Benoit, 21, won the Boston Marathon in 2 hours 35 minutes 15 seconds, a record for women at that event, in only her second marathon. She is a Bowdoin College senior from Brunswick, Maine.
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Joan Benoit
Brunswick
Maine
Bowdoin College
New
York
Central Park
Grete Waitz
Leggs
New York
Madison Square Garden
Danzetta Young
Beaver Falls
Chris Shea
Evelyn Ashford
Nancy Lieberman
Queens
N.Y
Old Dominion University
Association For Intercollegiate Athletics For Women
Lilly Margaret Wade
Wimbledon
Martina Navratilova
United States
Chris Evert
Billie Jean King
Navratilova
Elizabeth Ryan
Tracy Austin
Eee Fear
Efyine Powerurrents
Jellyfis
Arks
Diana Nyad
Bahamas
Florida
John Lloyd
Nancy Lopez
Tim Melton
Susan Ford
Gerald Ford
Charles Vance
Secret Service
Ford
Patty Hearst
Bernard Shaw
California
Carter
Vittoria Ianni
Mario Maltese
Vatican
Pauline Chapel
John Paul II
Rome
Congress
National Organization For Women
U.S. Department of Labor
Carnegie Corp
Mamie Eisenhower
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Eisenhower
Abilene
Kaw
Marjorie Lawrence
Sho
Lie
Eliza Hadley Mowrer
Ernest Hemingway
Jean Stafford
Dolores Costello
John Barrymore
Marvella Bayh
Sen
Birch Bayh
D-Ind
American Cancer Society
Minerva Pious
Mrs. Nussbaum
Fred Allen
Barbara Hutton
Woolworth
Mary Pickford
Helen van Slyke
Cornelia Otis Skinner
Kathryn O’hay Granahan
U.S
Corinne Griffith
Keey Films
Vivian Vance
Sally Rand
Gracie Fields
Marilyn J. McCusker