Mary Roman
A Senior Olympian and current holder of the senior shot put record, Ms. Mary Roman defied all odds and proved that age isn’t anything but a number. Her husband, Granville Roman, regularly participated in the Senior Olympics and after his death in 1999, she began training to compete and quickly excelled. She won over 300 medals in her Olympic career. She was born on September 9, 1935 in Pittsfield, Massachusetts and died in Connecticut on April 6, 2020 due to complications caused by the coronavirus. The mother of five sons, she was 84.
