Joan Benoit of the United States at the 1984 Summer Games in Los Angeles.
Australian. Fanny Durack of Australia won the first women's gold medal in swimming at the 1912 Games in Stockholm.
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1948 Summer Games in London. She won gold in high jump and became the first African-American woman, and the first black woman of any nationality, to win an Olympic gold medal.
The fastest marathon by a woman (2:15:25) was run by Paula Radcliffe in the 2003 London Marathon.
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The men's record in the London Marathon was set in 2011 by Emmanuel Mutai in a time of 2:04:38.
Constantina Diṭă-Tomescu of Romania in a time of 2:26:44.
Women were not allow to compete at the first Olympic in 1896.
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The women's marathon was introduced into the Summer Olympics in 1984. The first woman to win a gold medal in the marathon was Joan Benoit of the United States in a time of 2:24:52. American marathon runner, Joan Benoit won the Marathon at the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles.
The 1900 Olympics were the first modern Olympic Games to be open to women.
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