NEW YORK — Joan Benoit Samuelson will run the New York City Marathon this fall to celebrate the 25th anniversary of her gold medal in the first women’s Olympic marathon.

The 52-year-old Samuelson announced she would enter the race Wednesday, exactly a quarter-century after her victory at the 1984 Los Angeles Games.
Samuelson set the American record for the 50-54 age group at last year’s U.S. women’s Olympic trials in Boston. At the time, she said it would be her last competitive marathon. But as she noted Wednesday, “I never said what constitutes competitive.”
This will be her fifth NYC Marathon and first since 2001. The two-time Boston Marathon winner will run with the regular entrants, not the elite women, at the Nov. 1 race.