About Uta Pippig
Uta Pippig is a retired German long-distance runner, and the first woman to officially win the Boston Marathon three consecutive times (1994–1996). She also won the Berlin Marathon three times; the 1993 New York City Marathon; represented Germany at the Olympic Games in 1992 and 1996, and won a bronze medal at the 1991 World 15km Road Race Championship. Her marathon best of 2:21:45 set in Boston in 1994, made her the third-fastest female marathon runner in history at that time. Pippig won the 1994 Boston Marathon in a lifetime best of 2:21:45, which at the time put her third on the world all-time list behind Ingrid Kristiansen and Joan Benoit. She won the Eurocross meeting in Luxembourg that year. She also won a bronze medal at the 1991 World 15 km Road Race Championship. She held the half marathon world record for close to two years with a time of 67:58 she ran in Kyoto 1994.
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