Coach Lisa Ranked 5th Best Marathoner of All Time:

From Globetrotting by Phillip Hersch of the Chicago Tribune

5. Lisa Larsen Weidenbach Rainsberger: She is the last U.S. winner of the Boston Marathon (1985). The only U.S. woman to win two Chicago Marathons (1988-89). One of seven U.S. women with three or more marathons under 2:30. (When she did it the final time, in 1990, only Benoit had three or more sub-2:30s.) She also was the heartbreak kid, finishing fourth in three straight Olympic trials, thereby missing the Summer Games by one place each time. “This kind of bittersweet,” Weidenbach said of her first Chicago victory, which came a month after the 1988 Seoul Games. “Nothing can make up for not making the Olympics.”

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