Jenn Shelton

Jenn Shelton, born in 1983, is an American ultramarathoner who has set course records in several of the most demanding American ultramarathons and who became one of the top female ultrarunners in the United States soon after starting. She played rugby at the University of North Carolina and later enrolled at Old Dominion University. In 2006 she was the only woman among the ultrarunners who traveled to Copper Canyon in Chihuahua, Mexico, to run with the Tarahumara for Christopher McDougall's book Born to Run. In May 2007 she was the first woman finisher at the Frederick Marathon in a course record 2:53:44, running in a bikini, and in 2010 she won the Deseret News Marathon in 2:54:23. She competed in the 2012 US Olympic Marathon Trials but did not finish.