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Uta Pippig

Uta Pippig, whose running career resulted in several major international marathon wins, #1 world rankings, world championships, and the Olympics, is the founder and president of Take The Magic Step, LLC and co-founder of the Take The Magic Step Foundation (www.TakeTheMagicStep.com).
Born in Leipzig, Germany, to parents who both were physicians, Uta was introduced to competitive athletics at the age of 13 when a classmate invited her to join a local running club. That began a life-time commitment to running and fitness. After passing her final exams (“Physikum”) as a medical student at the Freie Universität Berlin, she decided to focus her attention exclusively on running professionally.
Uta became the first woman to officially win the Boston Marathon three consecutive times. She also claimed three victories at the Berlin Marathon, including the “Reunification Marathon” in 1990 that spanned from West Berlin through the Brandenburg Gate into East Berlin. Uta’s victory in that historic run came just months after she left Communist East Germany to live in freedom.