# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/joan-benoit-samuelson
# Generated: 2026-08-12T17:49:40.250Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/joan-benoit-samuelson"
name: "Joan Benoit Samuelson"
slug: "joan-benoit-samuelson"
description: "Joan Benoit Samuelson, née Joan Benoit, is an American marathon runner who was the first women's Olympic Games marathon champion, winning the gold medal at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. She held the fastest time for an American woman at the Chicago Marathon for 32 years after winning the race in 1985. Her time at the Boston Marathon was the fastest time by an American woman in that race for 28 years. She was inducted into the Maine Women's Hall of Fame in 2000."
tagline: "American distance runner"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Joan_Benoit_2008.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "athletes"
profileType:
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  slug: "athlete"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2066131"
birthDate: "1957-05-16"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             15
  historical:           21.719088
  currentAttention:     9.76
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: 236
platforms:
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    url:       "https://x.com/JBSamuelson"
    handle:    "JBSamuelson"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump