Marla runyan autobiography of miss universe

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Meet the 2022 Hall of Fame Finalists Paralympians Steve Cash Muffy Davis Susan Hagel Trischa Zorn-Hudson David Kiley Marla Runyan Marlon Shirley.

Legally blind since childhood, Olympic track and field athlete and marathon runner Marla Runyan never let her vision loss stand in the way of her athletic dreams.

Born January 4, 1969 in Santa Maria, California, Runyan is the second child of Valerie and Gary Runyan.

At age nine, Runyan developed Stargardt’s Disease, a form of macular degeneration that left her legally blind. She did, however, retain her peripheral vision and could make out shapes and shadows.

WE TALK to former Olympic champion Marla Runyan on her successes in running and the challenges she's faced in life.

  • Marla Runyan has already crossed the finish line in New York's Central Park, but that was the dress rehearsal – Sunday is the real thing.
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  • Three-time U.S. 5000-meter champion and two-time Olympian Marla Runyan and her husband Matt Lonergan became the parents of daughter Anna lee Runyan Lonergan.
  • Marla showed the world that you can be blind and be an accomplished runner, becoming a three-time national 5,000-meter champion and.

    • Her mother found her school books in large print and worked with the Lions Club to obtain a closed circuit television.

    After graduating from Adolfo Camarillo High School in 1987, Runyan studied at San Diego State, where she earned a master’s degree in communicative disorders in 1994.

    She also earned a second master’s degree in special education.

    While attending San Diego State, Runyan began competing in several athletic events: the heptathlon, 200-meter dash, high jump, shot put, 100-meter hurdle, long jump, javelin throw