Aliphine Tuliamuk On Being the First Black Woman On the US Olympic Marathon Team and Competing 6 Months Postpartum
Written by Black Hot Fire Network on August 6, 2021
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In just a few hours' time, Kenyan-American long-distance runner Aliphine Tuliamuk will make her Olympic debut in the women's marathon event in Sapporo, Japan. And she'll be doing it just six months postpartum.
Last year, days before the coronavirus shut things down, Tuliamuk broke barriers when she placed first in the Tokyo Olympic 2020 trials in Atlanta, Georgia. Crossing the line in 2:27:23, she became one of the first Black women to ever represent the U.S. in the Olympic game marathon. (She . . .
