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This year’s Grand Marshal is Frank Shorter, Olympic gold medalist and the winner of the first OneAmerica 500 Festival Mini-Marathon. Shorter became a household name in 1972 when he championed the gold medal at the Munich Olympics. He was the first American winner of the Olympic Marathon, and no man from the United States has won since.
Hace 5 días · An Original Running Community. Boulder is known as one of the top running meccas in the U.S., in part because elite-level American and international runners have made it their training base since...
Hace 6 días · Frank Shorter was the last U.S. male to do that, winning the marathon in 1972. No American has won a distance race on the track since 1964, when Billy Mills upset a loaded field to win the...
Hace 5 días · American Frank Shorter's gold medal in the 1972 Olympic Marathon created a nation-wide ripple effect among runners training to attack the formidable distance of a 26.2-mile run in what was...
Hace 4 días · About that time Frank Shorter in 1972 won the gold medal in the marathon for the Olympics. That captured his imagination. Then Dr. Jack Skaff started up the Honolulu Marathon Clinic and Coffman...
Hace 3 días · Answer: Frank Shorter Frank Shorter won gold in Munich (1972) and silver in Montreal (1976). Thomas Hicks won gold in the 1904 games in St. Louis, Johnny Hayes won gold in the 1908 games in London and Mebrahtom "Meb" Keflezighi won silver in the 2004 Athens games.
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