Carla Beurskens

Carolina Alwina Hubertina ‘Carla’ Beurskens (born February 10, 1952 in Tegelen, Limburg) was Holland's leading marathon runner in the 1980s, after taking over from Marja Wokke. Beurskens twice won the Rotterdam Marathon, in 1984 and 1990.

She ran her personal best (2:26:34 hours) on November 15, 1987 in the Tokyo Marathon. That Dutch national record stood for nearly thirteen years, and was broken on November 2, 2003 by the Dutch Kenyan Lornah Kiplagat at the New York Marathon: 2:23:43. Beurskens twice represented her native country at the Summer Olympics: in Los Angeles 1984 and Seoul 1988. Beurskens won the Honolulu Marathon eight times, for the first time in 1985.