Michiko "Miki" Suwa Gorman (August 9, 1935 – September 19, 2015)[1] was an American marathon runner of Japanese ancestry.

[3] Michiko Suwa was born to Japanese parents in Qingdao, China, grew up in Japan's Fukushima Prefecture during the post-war years and moved to the United States in 1964.

In 1970, as her first event, Michiko (later "Miki" Gorman) ran an indoor 100 mile run in 21:04:00 in Los Angeles, California.

Until 2017, when the race was won by Shalane Flanagan, she had been the last American woman to win the New York City Marathon.

She set a personal best during her 1976 victory with a time of 2:39:11, then the second fastest women's marathon in history and just a minute off the world record.