Grete 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...

medal by 1m 26, with the silver medal going to the 1983 World champion Grete Waitz of Norway, and bronze to Rosa Mota of Portugal. Strategically, the race...

Marathon. The marathon grew in popularity two years later when Norwegian Grete Waitz broke the women's world record, finishing in 2:32:30. She went on to...

performances set on the same course in 1978, 1979, and 1980 by Norwegian Grete Waitz, the Association of Road Racing Statisticians considers the New York...

Waitz is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Hans Waitz, German Biblical scholar Georg Waitz, German historian and politician Grete Waitz...

Treier (born 1977), Estonian road bicycle racer Grete Waitz (1953–2011), Norwegian marathon runner Grete Zimmer, birth name of Greta Zimmer Friedman (1924-2016)...

is officially credited as the first sub-3-hour marathon by a woman. Grete Waitz, a Norwegian female runner, achieved three official world records at...

took more than two minutes off the world's best time, set by Norway's Grete Waitz in the London Marathon only a day earlier. Her Boston record was not...

ever to win both the long and short course double in the same year; Grete Waitz, the first woman to win five times (although Doris Brown Heritage won...

finishing at the Helsinki Olympic Stadium. The race was won by Norway's Grete Waitz in 2:28:09, ahead of Marianne Dickerson of the United States in second...