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Bookmark or Share- Grete Waitz - WikipediaGrete Waitz (née Andersen, 1 October 1953 – 19 April 2011) was a Norwegian marathon runner and former world record holder. In 1979, at the New York City Marathon, she became the first woman in history to run the marathon in under two and a half hours.
- Grete Waitz obituary | Athletics | The GuardianWed 20 Apr 2011 19.22 EDT. Grete Waitz, who has died aged 57, achieved an iconic status in women's distance running, winning the World Marathon title in 1983, the New York Marathon nine times,...
- Remembering Waitz on the anniversary of her ninth New York Marathon ...Grete Waitz salutes the Helsinki crowd after her 1983 World Championship win. Yet the Oslo-born former geography teacher was determined to end her season on a high and just over one month after her Seoul sorrow she returned to New York in pursuit of title number nine.
- Grete Waitz, Marathon Champion, Dies at 57 - The New York TimesGrete Waitz, the Norwegian schoolteacher who won more New York City Marathons — nine — than anyone else, and whose humility and athleticism made her a singularly graceful champion and a role...
- Grete Waitz | Marathon runner, Olympian, World ChampionGrete Waitz (born October 1, 1953, Oslo, Norway—died April 19, 2011, Oslo) Norwegian marathoner who dominated women’s long-distance running for more than a decade, winning the New York City Marathon nine times between 1978 and 1988 (she did not compete in 1981 or 1987).
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