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This Day in Observe & Subject, October 31, First Ladies’s Observe & Subject Affiliation based (1921), Frank Shorter, two time Olympic marathon medalist, born (1947), by Walt Murphy Information and Outcomes

October 31, 2024
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This Day in Observe & Subject–October 31  

1921-Federation Sportive Female Internationale types (1st ladies’s monitor & subject affiliation)

La Femme Sportive, first ladies’s sport affiliation, based in 1921, courtesy of Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Womenpercent27s_Sports_Federation

https://www.vice.com/en/article/xybw9k/throwback-thursday-how-a-french-feminist-staged-her-own-games-and-forced-the-olympics-to-include-women

Frank Shorter  77 (1947)  1972 Olympic gold medalist—Marathon (1976-silver), 5th-10,000 (1972)

           5-time U.S. Champion—6-miles/10,000m (‘70y, ‘71y, ’74,’75,’77)

           1970 U.S. Champion—3-miles

           1969 NCAA Champion—6-miles (Yale/2nd within the 3-mile)

           4-time winner of the Fukuoka Marathon (1971-1974), thought of the premier marathon race within the

               world on the time

           Credited with beginning the working growth within the U.S. together with his Olympic win in 1972

           Former American File holder:

                  10,000: 1972 Olympics—27:58.2 (warmth), 27:51.4 (remaining)

Munich, West Germany – 1972: (L-R) Frank Shorter, Lasse Viren competing within the Males’s 10,000 metres occasion on the 1972 Summer time Olympics / the Video games of the XX Olympiad, Olympiahalle. (Photograph by Tony Triolo /Disney Common Leisure Content material through Getty Photographs)

                  Marathon: 2:10:30 in Fukuoka (1972)

                  2-Mile: 8:26.2—San Diego (1971)

           Inducted into the U.S. Corridor of Fame in 1989

           Former broadcaster with NBC

           PBs: 7:51.4 (1972), 8:26.2/2m (1971), 13:26.62 (1977), 27:45.91 (1975), 2:10:30 (1972)

           http://frankshorter.internet/

           HOF Bio(1989): https://www.usatf.org/athlete-bios/frank-shorter

           Wiki Bio: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Shorter

           Rising Up: https://www.runnersworld.com/runners-stories/a21753998/frank-shorters-story/

           https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/79039