Lorraine Moller

Lorraine Moller ( Moller Lorraine Mary, born June 1, 1955 in Putaruru ) is a former New Zealand middle and long distance runner and Olympic bronze medalist.

Moller ran from childhood barefoot on grass soils in New Zealand. Her first pair of running shoes she bought only a teenager when she began to participate in running competitions. She studied first at the University of Dunedin and was a physical education teacher, but decided in 1978 to move to the U.S. and to devote himself entirely to running. In 1980 she won the London Marathon AVON International (then the unofficial world championship of women), a race in which she twice won (1982 in San Francisco and in 1984 at the final staging in Paris). In addition, she won the Osaka Women's Marathon 1986, 1987 and 1989.

At the Commonwealth Games in 1982 she won the bronze medal in 1982 in the 1500 - and 3000 - meter race at the Commonwealth Games 1986, the silver medal in the marathon with her personal best of 2:28:17.

Since the start of the marathon for women in the Olympic Games it took from 1984 to 1996 continuously participate in this, and she is the only woman to have four Olympic marathons completed ( as of 2004). At the Olympic Games in Barcelona in 1992, she won the bronze medal behind Valentina Egorova (CIS) and Yuko Arimori (JPN ).

Lorraine Moller is 1,74 m tall and weighed 58 kg to their competition time. She is married, has one daughter and lives in Boulder (Colorado), where it acts as a trainer.