Marianne Dickerson
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Personal life
Dickerson was born in St. Joseph, Illinois.
NCAA
She was a star runner first at St. Joseph-Ogden High School, then at the University of Illinois after a stint on a track scholarship to the University of Michigan. (She earned a bachelor's in general engineering from the University of Illinois and a master's in industrial engineering from the University of Michigan). November, 1980: UI cross country's Marianne Dickerson placed first at the AIAW state meet.November 1982: In the first-ever Big Ten women's cross country championship meet, Marianne Dickerson earned first-team All-Big Ten honors with a sixth-place finish.[2] in 1983 after also earning All-American status in the 10,000m, placing third, at NCAA Division I Women's Outdoor Track and Field Championships.[3]
Professional
Against the advice of her coach, she entered a Missouri race, a portion of the inaugural Avon Marathon series. Winning the race qualified her for the series championship in Los Angeles, where she placed second behind Julie Brown.
That race served as the qualifier to the World Championships.[4] She was a surprise to take the silver medal at the 1983 World Championships in Helsinki, Finland.[5] While Grete Waitz was a clear winner, Dickerson was in fourth place behind Rosa Mota and Raisa Smekhnova, that group having already dispatched stars Joyce Smith, Laura Fogli and Christa Vahlensieck. Dickerson passed Mota outside the stadium then surged to dramatically beat Smekhnova (a sub-4 minute 1500m runner)[6] on the track inside the stadium.[7]
Injuries prevented her from competing in the 1984 Olympic Trials. She qualified for the 1988 trials by winning the Baltimore Marathon, but faded in the middle of those trials.
After getting her degree in Engineering, she went to the Harvard Business School. In 2015, she returned to her alma-mater high school as an assistant coach before her death.[8]
Achievements
- All results regarding marathon, unless stated otherwise
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| 1983 | Los Angeles Marathon | Los Angeles, California | 2nd | 2:33:45 |
| 1983 | World Championships | Helsinki, Finland | 2nd | 2:31:09 |
| 1988 | Baltimore Marathon | Baltimore, United States | 1st | 2:41:05 [9] |
References
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- ↑ Illini Women’s Athletics Begin to Take Flight in the ‘80s Illinois Fighting Illini
- ↑ Former @IlliniWTrack Marianne Dickerson Passes Away Illinois Fighting Illini
- ↑ America's first marathon medalist Runner's World
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- ↑ Amy Cragg ends U.S. women's marathon drought with thrilling bronze ESPN
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- 1960 births
- 2015 deaths
- American female long-distance runners
- People from Champaign County, Illinois
- Illinois Fighting Illini women's track and field athletes
- Grainger College of Engineering alumni
- World Athletics Championships medalists
- University of Michigan College of Engineering alumni
- Harvard Business School alumni
- World Athletics Championships athletes for the United States
- 20th-century American sportswomen
- Michigan Wolverines women's track and field athletes
- Illinois Fighting Illini women's cross country runners