Lynn Jennings

Jennings won three straight world cross-country titles from 1990 to 1992, the last on home soil at Franklin Park in Boston, and won the US title nine times. A New Englander used to cold, muddy autumn racing, she was at her best when conditions were raw and courses hilly, and she added Olympic 10,000m bronze in Barcelona. Her run of world titles has not been matched by any American woman since.