Maren Seidler, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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American shot putter
Date of Birth: 11-Jun-1951
Place of Birth: Brooklyn, New York, United States
Profession: shot putter
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Gemini 
About Maren Seidler
- Maren Elizabeth Seidler (born June 11, 1951 in Brooklyn, New York) is a retired American track and field athlete.
- She dominated the shot put from the mid 1960s through 1980.
- She won the event at the USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships eleven times starting in 1967, including nine in a row from 1972 to 1980.
- She was the American champion indoors nine times, 1968-9, 1972, 1974-5 and 1977 to 1980.
- She won her event at the United States Olympic Trials four straight times 1968-1980, a feat only equalled by only one woman, Madeline Manning, Edwin Moses is the only man to achieve four.
- Jackie Joyner Kersee is the only woman who has won more events at the Olympic Trials, split between the long jump and heptathlon.
- She competed in the Olympics three times, making the final twice.
- Her 1980 selection was quashed by the 1980 Summer Olympics boycott.
- Seidler did however receive one of 461 Congressional Gold Medals created especially for the spurned athletes.Seidler spent most of her career competing for the Mayor Daley Youth Foundation team.
- She started throwing for Tufts University, winning the 1971 DGWS collegiate shot put title.
- Her back-to-back title in 1972 came while competing for California State University, Hayward, where she still holds the school record.
- She competed at the 1973 World University Games.
- Toward the end of her career, she joined a group of elite male throwers who congregated near San Jose, California called the San Jose Stars.She also competed in three editions of the Pan American Games, taking a silver medal in 1979.
- She was elected into the National Track and Field Hall of Fame in 2000.
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