Martha Benjamin
Martha Benjamin from Old Crow, Yukon is a Canadian Indigenous cross country skier. With the guidance of Jean-Marie Mouchet, 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 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.
- 1983 - Inducted into the Yukon Sports Hall of Fame.