Kara Goucher
Kara Goucher is an American longdistance runner. She was the 10,000 meters bronze medalist at the 2007 World Championships in Athletics and represented her country at the 2008 Beijing Olympics and 2012 London Olympics. She made her marathon debut in 2008 and finished third the following year at the Boston Marathon.
Goucher was born Kara Grgas in Queens, New York. When she was four years old her family moved to Duluth, Minnesota after her father was killed by a drunk driver on the Harlem River Drive. When her mother remarried, Kara took her stepfathers name, and was known as Kara Wheeler.
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