Joan Benoit won the women’s marathon at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics wearing Nike shoes.
The Los Angeles Games featured the first women’s Olympic marathon. Benoit took the lead early and won in 2:24:52, becoming the event’s inaugural Olympic champion.
Her victory followed knee surgery only months earlier, making the performance especially notable. Benoit raced in Nike footwear and became one of the prominent distance runners associated with the company during the growth of women’s running.
The answer is sometimes given as Joan Benoit Samuelson, her later married name. At the 1984 Olympics she competed as Joan Benoit, so that is the concise name used for the result.