Maryama Akor

**Mary Adah Akor Beasley** (an haife ta a ranar 24 ga Satumba, 1976) 'yar wasa ce ' yar Najeriya -Amurka wacce ta fafata a gasar tseren marathon ta duniya ta 2005 da 2007.  A shekarar 2006, an sanya ta a matsayin mace ta bakwai mafi sauri a Amurka a shekarar; a shekarar 2007, ita ce ta shida.  Tana gudu (kuma sau da yawa tana cin nasara) tseren marathon da yawa a faɗin Amurka, Mexico da Afirka. Bayan ta yi tseren marathon na Gobernador a Mexicali, Mexico, a watan Disamba na 2012, an same ta tana amfani da haramtaccen abu.  Ta karɓi takunkumin da aka ba ta kuma ta koma gasa a shekarar 2015.

Ita ce mai riƙe da kambun tseren gudun marathon na mata a Najeriya. 

## Farkon aikina
Kamar sauran takwarorinta, Akor ta fara gudu tun tana ƙarama a gidanta na Najeriya. Ta yi tsere mai nisa kuma ta yi tseren marathon na farko tana da shekaru 13. Lokacin da take da shekaru 15, ta cancanci shiga Gasar Olympics ta 1992, amma Kwamitin Olympics na Najeriya ya yanke shawarar kin tura ta zuwa Barcelona, Spain (kuma daga ƙarshe ba za ta aika mata da 'yan wasa mata ba sai ƙungiyar mita 4x100, wadda ta sami azurfa).  

A shekarar 1993, Mary Akor mai shekaru 16 ta zo Amurka don zama kusa da 'yan uwanta a Pasadena, California . Ita ce kaɗai ta yi tsere a ƙungiyar makarantar sakandare ta John Muir kuma ta isa gasar jiha. 

Daga nan ta je kwalejin Jihar California-Dominguez Hills ta yi tseren ƙasa-ƙasa, amma ta koma Kwalejin El Camino da ke Alondra Park, California . Ta yi tsere daga 1997 zuwa 1999 kuma ta fafata a tseren mita 10,000 da mita 5,000 da mita 3,000 na jihar.  A shekararta ta farko, ta zama zakaran CCCAA a dukkan gasa uku yayin da ta jagoranci Warriors zuwa gasar zakarun ƙungiya.   

Ta kammala karatunta, inda ta sami digiri a fannin aikin zamantakewa. A shekarar 2006, an shigar da ita cikin zauren shahara na Kwalejin El Camino. 

## Sana'ar ƙwararru
A gasar Marathon ta Duniya ta 2005 da aka yi a Helsinki, Finland, ta yi jerin gwano tare da mafi kyawun 'yan wasa a duniya, waɗanda suka haɗa da abokan wasanta na Amurka Turena Johnson-Lane, Jill Boaz, Emily Levan da Jenny Crain . Amma 'yar tseren Birtaniya Paula Radcliffe ce za ta yi nasara a tseren kuma ta yi nasara a cikin mafi sauri a gasar: 2:20:57. Johnson-Lane ita ce 'yar Amurka ta farko da ta kammala a matsayi na 26. Akor ta kare a matsayi na 50 cikin kusan awanni uku.  

A farkon kaka na 2007, Akor tana kan layin farko na tserenta na biyu na Gasar Marathon ta Duniya, a wannan karon a Osaka, Japan. Bayan an tashi daga harbin, Catherine Ndereba ta yi shawarwari da kyau kuma ta lashe gasar da ƙarfe 2:30:37. Anna Alyanak (ta 31 a 2:42:23), sai Zoila Gomez (ta 35) da Dana Coons (ta 38). Akor ta kare a matsayi na 42 da ƙarfe 2:47:06, jim kaɗan bayan Susanne Hahn 'yar Jamus.  

### Marathon na Kaka mai tsayi uku
A shekarar 2005, Akor ta yi gudu ta kuma zo ta biyu a tseren Marathon na Grandma, tseren da aka yi tsakanin maki zuwa maki a Minnesota daga Two Harbors zuwa Duluth . A shekarar da ta gabata, ta zo ta 27 a tseren rabin marathon na taron (wanda aka sanya wa suna bayan ɗan wasan Olympics na gida, Garry Bjorklund ). Ta zo ta biyu a gasar a shekarar 2005 ta sami kyautar, kuma ta dawo a shekarar 2006 ta zo ta huɗu, amma ta koma ta uku bayan da aka gano cewa Halina Karnatsevich ta yi amfani da kwayoyi masu sa maye.

A shekarar 2007, tseren Marathon na Kaka ya kafa dokar gwajin ƙwayoyi. Akor tana da shekaru 30 kuma ta fi sauri fiye da kowane lokaci. Ta yi gudu da ƙarfe 2:35:40 a zafin digiri 70 don ta doke dukkan mata, ciki har da Liza Hunter-Galvan da Ramylya Burangulova ta Rasha da Tatyana Titova .  Bayan haka, ta bayyana goyon bayanta ga gwajin ƙwayoyi kuma ta ce tana aiki a kan asma ba tare da shan na'urar numfashi ba wanda zai iya hana ta shiga gasar. 

Ta fara samun nasara sosai, yayin da take dawowa kowace watan Yuni don lashe jimillar kofuna uku ('07, '08 cikin iska mai ƙarfi da lokaci na 2:41:43; da kuma '09 a 2:36:52 a kan hanyarta ta zuwa tanti na likita saboda rashin ruwa sosai), inda ta doke 'yan wasa kamar Zinaida Semenova, Violetta Kryza, Janet Cherobon, Alina Ivanova, Serkalem Abrha, da Robyn Friedman.   Wata mace daya tilo da ta lashe wasanni uku a jere ita ce Lorraine Moller, 'yar tseren tseren marathon tagulla . 

A shekarar 2010, nasararta ta ƙare lokacin da ta zo ta huɗu yayin da Buzunesh Deba ta yi nasarar lashe gasar. A shekarar 2011, ta fice bayan tafiyar mil 20. A shekara mai zuwa, ta sake yin rabin tseren, inda ta fafata a Gasar Cin Kofin Ƙasa . Ta kare a matsayi na 19 a tseren da Kara Goucher ta lashe. Ta yi ƙoƙarin komawa gasar Marathon ta Kaka a shekarar 2017, ta kare a matsayi na 12, sannan ta koma matsayi na 11 a shekarar 2019, inda ita ce ta farko da ta kammala gasar masters. Ƙungiyar ba ta ba ta kyautar kyautar ba, maimakon haka, matar masters ta gaba ( Heather Lieberg ) ta sami kyautar.

## Manazarta