Maren Seidler
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Maren Elizabeth Seidler (born June 11, 1951 in Brooklyn, New York) is a retired American track and field athlete. She dominated the shot put from the mid 1960s through 1980. She won the event at the USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships eleven times starting in 1967, including nine in a row from 1972 to 1980.[1] She was the American champion indoors nine times, 1968-9, 1972, 1974-5 and 1977 to 1980.[2] She won her event at the United States Olympic Trials four straight times 1968-1980, a feat only equalled by only one woman, Madeline Manning, Edwin Moses is the only man to achieve four. Jackie Joyner Kersee is the only woman who has won more events at the Olympic Trials, split between the long jump and heptathlon.[3] She competed in the Olympics three times, making the final twice. Her 1980 selection was quashed by the 1980 Summer Olympics boycott. Seidler did however receive one of 461 Congressional Gold Medals created especially for the spurned athletes.[4]
Seidler spent most of her career competing for the Mayor Daley Youth Foundation team. She started throwing for Tufts University, winning the 1971 DGWS collegiate shot put title. Her back-to-back title in 1972 came while she was competing for California State University, Hayward, where she still holds the school record.[5] She competed at the 1973 World University Games. Toward the end of her career, she joined a group of elite male throwers who congregated near San Jose, California called the San Jose Stars.[6]
She also competed in three editions of the Pan American Games, winning a silver medal in 1979. She was elected into the National Track and Field Hall of Fame in 2000.[7]
References
- ^ "USA Track & Field - USA Outdoor Track & Field Champions". Legacy.usatf.org. Retrieved 2022-09-08.
- ^ "USA Track & Field - USA Indoor Track & Field Champions". Legacy.usatf.org. Retrieved 2022-09-08.
- ^ http://www.legacy.usatf.org/usatf/files/69/695a8112-b7a0-4b9d-9dbb-8b4bca22677c.pdf [bare URL PDF]
- ^ Caroccioli, Tom; Caroccioli, Jerry (2008). Boycott: Stolen Dreams of the 1980 Moscow Olympic Games. Highland Park, IL: New Chapter Press. pp. 243–253. ISBN 978-0942257403.
- ^ "History & Records".
- ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Maren Seidler". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 2020-04-17.
- ^ "USATF - Hall of Fame".
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Amateur Athletic Union
- 1923: Bertha Christophel
- 1924: Ester Behring
- 1925–28: Lillian Copeland
- 1929–30: Rena MacDonald
- 1931: Lillian Copeland
- 1932: Babe Didrikson Zaharias
- 1933: Catherine Rutherford
- 1934: Not held
- 1935: Rena MacDonald
- 1936: Helen Stephens
- 1937: Gretel Bergmann
- 1938–41: Catherine Fellmeth
- 1942: Ramona Harris
- 1943: Frances Gorn-Sobczak (POL) * Dorothy Dodson
- 1944: Dorothy Dodson
- 1945: Frances Kaszubski (POL) * Helen Steward
- 1946–47: Dorothy Dodson
- 1948: Frances Kaszubski (POL) * Dorothy Dodson
- 1949: Amelia Wood
- 1950: Frances Kaszubski (POL) * Amelia Wood
- 1951: Amelia Wood
- 1952: Amelia Wood & Janet Dicks
- 1953: Amelia Wood
- 1954: Lois Testa
- 1955: Wanda Wejzgrowicz
- 1956–62: Earlene Brown
- 1963: Sharon Shepherd
- 1964: Earlene Brown
- 1965–66: Lynn Graham
- 1967–68: Maren Seidler
- 1969–71: Lynn Graham
- 1972–79: Maren Seidler
The Athletics Congress
- 1980: Maren Seidler
- 1981: Denise Wood
- 1982: María Elena Sarría (CUB) * Denise Wood (3)
- 1983: Denise Wood
- 1984: Ria Stalman (NED) * Lorna Griffin
- 1985–87: Ramona Pagel
- 1988: Connie Price
- 1989: Ramona Pagel
- 1990: Connie Price
- 1991: Ramona Pagel
- 1992: Connie Price-Smith
USA Track & Field
- 1993–2000: Connie Price-Smith
- 2001: Seilala Sua
- 2002: Teri Steer
- 2003: Kristin Heaston
- 2004: Laura Gerraughty
- 2005: Kristin Heaston
- 2006: Jillian Camarena
- 2007: Kristin Heaston
- 2008–09: Michelle Carter
- 2010: Jillian Camarena
- 2011: Michelle Carter
- 2012: Jillian Camarena-Williams
- 2013–16: Michelle Carter
- 2017: Raven Saunders
- 2018: Maggie Ewen
- 2019: Chase Ealey
- 20212020 OT: Jessica Ramsey
- 2022: Chase Ealey
- 2023: Maggie Ewen
- Since 1992, the championships has incorporated the Olympic Trials in Olympic years, otherwise held as a discrete event.
- 2020 OT: The 2020 Olympic Trials were delayed and held in 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.