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OSLO, Noreg – Grete Waitz, the selected Norse criminal who won figure New royalty City Marathons and a grayness ribbon at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics, died weekday after a six-year battle with cancer. She was 57.

Helle Aanesen, the trainer of the Active Against person Foundation in Norway, said Waitz died primeval weekday at the Ulleval University Hospital in Oslo.

Waitz won her prototypal New royalty City Marathon in 1978, environment a world prizewinning in 2 hours, 32 minutes, 30 seconds. She went on to get the event eight more nowadays — more than some another runner, phallic or female — with her last conclusion reaching in 1988.

Waitz also won the metallic ribbon in the task at the 1983 world championships in Helsinki, Finland. A year later, she took ordinal behindhand Joan Benoit in the prototypal women's athletics marathon.

She also competed at the 1972 and 1976 athletics in the 1,500 meters, but missed the 1980 Moscow Games because of the American-led boycott.

"Grete is in my eyes one of the greatest Norse athletes of all time," Norse Athletics Federation chair Svein Arne Hansen said. "Not exclusive finished her performances in the sport, but also as a role model for women in sports."

Aanesen said a private funeral ceremony is designed for incoming week, according to Waitz's wishes.

Waitz is survived by her economise Jack Waitz and her digit brothers, Jan and Arild.

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