Martha Benjamin (born 1935) from Old Crow, Yukon (Vuntut Gwitch'in First Nation) is a Canadian Indigenous cross country skier. With the guidance of Jean-Marie Mouchet (Oblate Priest), she took up the sport of cross-country skiing. Throughout the late 1950s and early 1960s, Benjamin was a national level skier competing throughout Canada, the United States and Europe.
Personal life
A lifelong resident of Old Crow, Yukon, Benjamin married before the age of 25 and had five children and thirteen grandchildren.
Major sport achievements and rewards
- US Nationals in New Hampshire - twenty-sixth place finish in a group of sixty-nine men
- 1963 - The 10 km (43.29 minutes) women's Canadian women's Nordic Champion Cross Country Skiing in Midland, Ontario
- Trained with Team Canada, however family obligations, as well as funding and support from the Canadian Olympic Committee stopped her for competing at the 1964 Winter Olympics (Innsbruck, Austria).
- 1983 - Inducted into the Yukon Sports Hall of Fame.
References
- ^ Hall, M.A. (2013). "Towards a History of Aboriginal Women in Canadian Sport". In Forsyth, J.; Giles, A.R. (eds.). Aboriginal People and Sport in Canada. Vancouver, BC: UBC Press.
- "1989, Martha Benjamin (Cross Country Skiing)". Sport Yukon. 2013-02-24. Retrieved 2017-10-25.
- ^ "Whitehorse Daily Star: Martha Benjamin: Canadian Champion". Whitehorse Daily Star. Retrieved 2017-10-25.
- Hall, M.A. (2004). "Martha Benjamin". In C.R. King (ed.). Native Americans in Sport. Armonk, N.Y.: Sharpe Reference.
- ^ "Cross Country Ski de Fond Canada".
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