The Boston Globe, September 24th, 2000
SYDNEY - In a spellbinding finish that came down to a sprint on the Olympic Stadium track, Naoko Takahashi held off Romania's Lidia Simon to become the first Japanese woman in history to win a gold medal in track and field. "I can't swallow what I've done yet," said the 28-year-old Takahashi, destined to become a national hero in a country that reveres the marathon. Her time of 2 hours 23 minutes 14 seconds erases Joan Benoit Samuelson's Olympic record of 2:24:52, set in Los Angeles in 1984. Silver-medalist Simon (2:23:22) and Joyce Chepchumba of Kenya (2:24:45) also came in under Samuelson's ...
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