| BENOIT | Runner Joan ___ Samuelson, who won gold in the first women's Olympic marathon, in 1984 |
| JOANBENOIT | Inaugural winner of the women's Olympic marathon in Los Angeles in 1984 (4,6) |
| LOU | WNBAer Katie ___ Samuelson |
| KENYA | Home of the 2016 men's and women's Olympic marathon winners |
| ECON | Class with a Paul Samuelson text |
| ROBERTAHENRIETTAJULL | First female doctor and founding member of the first women's college at the university? (7,9,4) |
| SENECAFALLS | New York site of the first women's rights convention, 1848: 2 wds. |
| MARYSOMERVILLE | One of the first women's colleges of Oxford University was named after this Scots mathematician (4,10) |
| RUNNINGBAREFOOT | At the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, Ethiopia's Abebe Bikila won gold in the marathon in this unusual way |
| ULRIKEMEYFARTH | German high jumper who won the women's Olympic title in 1972 and 1984 |
| STEVEJONES | Welsh athlete who won the London Marathon and the Chicago Marathon in 1985 |
| PAULTERGAT | The first Kenyan man to set the world record in the marathon, in 2003 |
| MOFARAH | British distance runner who won gold in the 10,000m at the 2012 Olympic Games (2,5) |
| ANNPACKER | British athlete who won gold in the 800m and silver in the 400m at the 1964 Olympics (3,6) |
| CARL | US athlete who won gold in the long jump in every Olympic Games from 1984 to 1996 (4) |
| LEWIS | US athlete who won gold in the long jump in every Olympic Games from 1984 to 1996 (5) |
| PETERS | Mary, athlete who won gold in the pentathlon in the 1972 Olympic Games (6) |
| DONQUARRIE | Jamaican sprinter who won gold in the 200m at the 1976 Olympics and silver in the 100m (3,7) |
| CAVANAGH | "The Flash" actor Tom ___, who ran the New York City Marathon in 3:29:31 in 2006 |
| SHURAKITATA | Ethiopian long- distance runner who won the men's London Marathon in October 2020 (5,6) |
