Miki Gorman
Miki Gorman was born in Qingdao, Shandong, China on August 9th, 1935 and is the American Long Distance Runner. At the age of 80, Miki Gorman biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Gorman set an unofficial world's best for the women's marathon of 2:46:36 at the Western Hemisphere Marathon (now the Culver City Marathon) on December 3, 1973, just four years after she started to run. Four months later, in April 1974, she won the Boston Marathon in a course record of 2:47:11. Gorman would also place second at Boston in 1976, and won Boston again in 1977.
Gorman also won the New York City Marathon twice, in 1976 and 1977, at the age of 41 and 42 respectively. Until 2017, when the race was won by Shalane Flanagan, she had been the last American woman to win the New York City Marathon. She 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.
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. At Gothenburg, she easily won the 40–44 masters division in the 1500 meters, 3000 meters, cross-country, and marathon competitions. Her cross-country and marathon race times were the fastest among women across all age divisions. In Hanover, at the age of 44, she won her division in the 5000 meters, 10000 meters, and marathon races.
In 1978, Gorman set a women's world record in the half-marathon. Frequently injured in subsequent years, Gorman competed sporadically through the years 1978 to 1981. She decided to retire from competitive running in 1982. In Miki Gorman's hometown of Atsugi, Japan, the city named a 10 km in honor of her called the Gorman Cup.