Miki Gorman
Miki Gorman (born Japanese诹 访 美智子, Michiko Suwa; born August 14, 1935 in Qingdao, China) is a former American marathon runner of Japanese origin.
The daughter of a doctor grew up in Fukushima Prefecture on in the present town of Aizu Wakamatsu - where they had to walk ten kilometers to school every day. At 28, she came to the United States where she worked as a nurse and the Carlisle Commercial College visited and then found a job in Los Angeles. There she married in 1966 the businessman Michael Gorman.
The Los Angeles Athletic Club, where she was notified of her husband in the fall of 1968, she discovered running for and ran in 1970 with an unofficial competition in the hall 100 miles ( 160.9 km ) in 21:04 hours.
In 1973, she started for the first time, of the 42,195 - km - distance and won the Western Hemisphere Marathon in the world best time of 2:46:37 h In fact, she won the Boston Marathon in 2:47:12 year. After a maternity leave she was in the fall of 1975 at the New York City Marathon and won again at the Second Western Hemisphere Marathon. In 1976 she was runner-up in Boston and won the inaugural as a city run New York City Marathon in 2:39:11 (on a probably 150 m short track ).
In 1977 she was able to win in the same year, both in Boston and in New York, which, according to her, only Allison Roe (1981) and Ingrid Kristiansen (1989 ) succeeded. It is therefore also the only woman who has more than a victory both in Boston and in New York. In 1978 she arrived in New York does not go beyond number 22, but turned shortly afterwards on 19 November in Pasadena with a 1:15:58 h world record in the half marathon on. In 1979 she became vice - world champion in the seniors in 2:54:10.
In 1982 she finished her performance athletic career. In the same year she separated from her husband without divorce. She now lives in Vancouver and runs occasionally 30 miles a week when she is not busy taking care of her two granddaughters.
She was inducted into the Masters Hall of Fame of USA Track & Field 1996, 2005 in the Hall of Fame of the Road Runners Club of America.