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Mary Teresa Slaney (formerly Tabb, née Decker, born August 4, 1958) is an American retired middle-distance and long-distance runner. During her career, she won gold medals in the 1500 meters and 3000 meters at the 1983 World Championships and was the world-record holder in the mile, 5000 meters and 10,000 meters.
The American Mary Decker was poised to win the gold; she’d been denied the chance four years earlier. Amid the international crowd of runners was a 18-year-old South African named Zola...
American women weren't exactly at the top of the food chain in the distance running world, as the with the introduction of middle distance events at the Olym...
Performance 2:02.87. The only athlete ever to hold every American record from 800 meters to 10,000 meters, Mary Decker Slaney continues to own the U.S. women's records in the 1500 (3:57.12), mile (4:16.71) and 3000 (8:25.83). Her greatest international achievement came at the 1983 World Championships in Helsinki, where she won the 1500 and 3000 ...
Mary Decker has been the greatest American female middle distance and distance runner. She was a prodigy, breaking American records indoors when she was only 15, and won AAU titles indoors and out in 1974.
Mary Decker Slaney still holds five American records from the 800-meter to the 3,000-meter event. Living with her husband in Eugene, Oregon, she is now a master's runner, competing in road races and track meets across the United States.
M ary Decker is remembered by many for what she did not do, rather than what she did. Although Decker, who started her impressive career as a pre-teen, is one of the world's fastest middle-distance runners ever, bad circumstances interfered in Decker's attempts to win an Olympic gold medal.
A new ESPN documentary relives the ambitions and anguish of American track superstar Mary Decker, whose run-in with Zola Budd during the ’84 Olympics would define her legacy.
Many Americans expected that in 1984, the first women's 3,000-meter run in Olympic history would be a coronation for Mary Decker. Instead, her collision with Zola Budd was a disaster for...
Decker, 21, a sensation as a teenager in the 1970s but hampered by injuries, beats the American record of 4:02.61 set by Jan Merrill at the 1976 Olympics in Montreal.