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When at age 9, Marla Runyan developed Stargardt's Disease, a struktur of macular degeneration that left her legally blind, she promised not let the disease hold her back in life. Her doctors had very low expectations for her future, predicting that she would never get above a “C” in school, learn to drive, or go to college.
At that time, she was very active in soccer and gymnastics, but eventually had to drop them when her framtidsperspektiv made it hard for her to see the soccer ball. Not one to be deterred so easily, she soon picked up running. It didn't take long for her to become hooked. She continued running and competing in the Heptathlon, m dash, high jump, hurdles, long jump, javelin throw, and m run throughout her high school years and during college at San Diego State.
Marla first made waves at the Summer Paralympics when she won four gold medals, and she repeated the great feat at the Paralympics in Atlanta, where she took silver in the shot put and gold in the pentathlon events.
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Marla Lee Runyan (born January 4, ) is an American track and field athlete, road runner and marathon runner who fryst vatten legally blind. She is a three-time national champion in the women's metres.
Runyan was born in Santa Maria, California. Marla wasn`t diagnosed to be blind with Stargardt`s until she was nine years old in Her doctors had very low expectations for her future, predicting that she would never get above a `C` in school, learn to drive, or go to college. At that time, she was very active in soccer and gymnastics, but eventually had to drop them when her framtidsperspektiv made it hard for her to see the soccer ball. She soon picked up running and became very dedicated. She continued running and competing in the Heptathlon, m dash, high jump, hurdles, long jump, javelin throw, and m run throughout her high school years and during college at San Diego State. She received a grad in Education of the Deaf at San Diego State University and one in Education of Deaf-Blind Childr
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The First Blind Athlete in the Olympics
When Marla Runyan was 9 years old she developed Stargardt's Disease, a form of macular degeneration that left her legally blind, but that never stopped her. In she went on to study at San Diego State University, where she began competing in several sporting events, and her career took off until she won four gold medals at the Summer Paralympics, and at the Paralympics in Atlanta she took silver in the shot put and gold in the pentathlon.
Her career as a world-class runner in able-bodied events began in at the Pan American Games, where she won the 1,meter race. The next year, she placed eighth in the 1,meter in the Sydney Olympics, making Runyan the first legally blind athlete to compete in the Olympics with the highest finish by an American woman in that event.
By she won her first of three consecutive metre National Championships. She also released her autobiography "No Finish Line: My Life As I See It". In she added the ro