Caroline Walker

Caroline Walker ( * October 15, 1953 ) is a former American long-distance runner.

In 1970 she competed in the Trail's End Marathon 3:02:53 hours and reached the goal. Only days later, the then 16 -year-old learned that she had thus setting a world record ( officially at that time women were not allowed to marathons ).

It should be their only marathon because they care focused soon as a student at the University of Oregon, where she was coached by Steve Prefontaine on the cross-country running. It was used twice in the national team: In 1972, she was the last cross of the nations ninth and won silver with the U.S. team, and at the World Cross Country Championships 1973 in Waregem they came on the 30th place and won the bronze medal with the team.

After her amalgam fillings have been used, she suffered from insomnia and fainting spells, which only ceased when she left in 1990 to remove the fillings. Nevertheless, they won in 1984, 1986 and 1987 at the Triathlon Championship of Oregon. In 1988, an unsuccessful chiropractic treatment for a herniated disc that forced them to end their athletic career.

After it was in the 1990s, patient and student of Dietrich Klinghardt, she practiced today in Santa Fe alternative medical techniques such as neural and Colorpunctur.