Julie Brown (athlete)

Julie Brown (Julie Ann Brown, born February 4, 1955 in Billings, Montana) is a former American long-distance runner.

Originally a middle distance runner, she became the first cross runner who received a scholarship to the University of California, Los Angeles ( UCLA). In 1975 she won the World Cross Country Championships in Rabat, 1978 and 1981 the national title. Also on the train drew them off. In 1975, she presented with 35:00,4 min a world record in the 10,000 meter run at 1974 and 1976 16:38,0 min or 16:14,0 min a U.S. record in the 5000 -meter run.

In 1975, she was national champion in 1500 -meter run, 1979 in the hall over two miles and 1980 outdoors over 3000 m.

In 1976 she ran her first marathon at the Western Hemisphere Marathon and was with 2:45:33 hours immediately the fifth fastest woman of the year. Two years later, her 2:36:24, run at the U.S. Championships in Eugene, a Weltjahresbestzeit and national record. After the boycott of the United States had prevented a participation in the Olympic Games in 1980, she moved definitively to the long distance and was second in the 1982 New York City Marathon in 2:28:33. As winner of the Avon - marathon in Los Angeles, she took another national title with her personal best of 2:26:26, the fastest time today at a U.S. Championship. Brown thus occupies the fourth place in the U.S. all-time best list (as of December 2008).

As the Second U.S. Championship the following year she qualified for the premiere of the Olympic marathon woman at the Games in Los Angeles, but came because of an illness of the glandular fever only on the 36th. After an eighth place at the New York Marathon in 1985, she ended her sports career and became a lawyer.