Lynn Jennings

Lynn Jennings
nation	United States
birthday	July 1, 1960
place of birth	Princeton, USA
size	1.65 cm
Weight	50 kg
Career
discipline	Long distance running

Lynn Jennings (born July 1, 1960 in Princeton , New Jersey ) is an American long-distance runner who was three times world champion in cross country and won an Olympic bronze medal in 1992.

She was quite successful in middle-distance running in her youth . Inspired by the Olympic victory of her former training colleague Joan Benoit at the marathon of the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles , she decided to resume her sporting ambitions, which she had since given up.

Success came quickly when she won the first of a total of nine titles in the national cross-country championships in 1985. Jennings set several US records, including one that is still current in the 10 km road race in 1990 with 31:06 minutes . She qualified for the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul , where she was sixth over 10,000 meters . From 1990 to 1992 she won three consecutive World Cross Country Championships .

She celebrated another success at the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona . She won the bronze medal in 31: 19.89 minutes in the 10,000 meter run behind Derartu Tulu ( ETH ) and Elana Meyer ( RSA ). This time was also a US record that was only broken ten years later by Deena Kastor .

In 1978 she was unofficially part of the Boston Marathon (as she was not allowed to start at the age of 17). With her time of 2:46 she would have finished third at that time. 21 years later, at the end of her running career, she ran her first official marathon in the same place and finished twelfth in 2:38:37.

Lynn Jennings is 1.65 m tall and weighed 50 kg at competition times.

Web links

• Lynn Jennings in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Portrait on coolrunning.com (English)

Footnotes

1. ↑ Sports Illustrated : Spotlight: Lynn Jennings, Marathon ( June 4, 2011 memento on the Internet Archive ), April 9, 1999
2. ^ Berlin Marathon website : 103rd Boston Marathon , April 23, 1999