How many females made the US Olympic Team in mid-distance/distance track & field that were moms? For this question I am defining female moms as those that gave actual physical birth to their own child, vaginal or caesarean.
How many females made the US Olympic Team in mid-distance/distance track & field that were moms? For this question I am defining female moms as those that gave actual physical birth to their own child, vaginal or caesarean.
Mid-d * meaning middle distance team thanks iPhone auto correct ?
Mud running should become a Olympic sport.
ElitesNotCheats wrote:
How many females made the US Olympic Team in mid-distance/distance track & field that were moms? For this question I am defining female moms as those that gave actual physical birth to their own child, vaginal or caesarean.
Male moms don’t count? ?
Kara in 2012.
LoneStarXC wrote:
ElitesNotCheats wrote:
How many females made the US Olympic Team in mid-distance/distance track & field that were moms? For this question I am defining female moms as those that gave actual physical birth to their own child, vaginal or caesarean.
Male moms don’t count? ?
The term "male mom" hurts my head to think about.
As opposed to a non-biological mom? Like E.T. or something?
Unfortunately these days everyone claims to be everything. I see a lot of US women that have given birth be strong enough & fast enough to make OTQ times, but haven’t seen one of them make top 3 at OTs. Moms that adopt don’t count for this question because I’m curious about women that have experienced the physiological changes of pregnancy & their capacity to outrace non-moms for Olympic team placement.
It absolutely should! It’s called cross country ?
I think Magedalena Lewy Boulet in 2008
Mary Slaney in '88.
Vicki Huber in '96.
I’m not considering athletes that have adopted children & not birthed their own. Also not considering “pet moms” like dog moms, cat moms, etc. Only moms sustaining physiological changes from giving birth to full-term children sustaining a complete gestation’s worth of pregnancy changes.
ElitesNotCheats wrote:
I’m not considering athletes that have adopted children & not birthed their own. Also not considering “pet moms” like dog moms, cat moms, etc. Only moms sustaining physiological changes from giving birth to full-term children sustaining a complete gestation’s worth of pregnancy changes.
We got that at vaginal/caesarean.
Colleen DeReuck
I was clarifying & acknowledging those that were going to say “but adoptive moms are moms too!” Etc. Yes but simply not for my curiosity in this instance. But thank you for getting it :)
A LOT of moms OTQ for the marathon - in fact, the field size is larger for women that OTQ for 26.2 versus those on the track. I know of women who didn’t even begin to compete in the sport until after they were mothers & they eventually OTQ’d. Is Kara the only mom to make the marathon team?