This Day in Track & Field, October 31, First Women’s Track & Field Association founded (1921), Frank Shorter, two time Olympic marathon medalist, born (1947), by Walt Murphy News and Results

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This Day in Track & Field–October 31

1921-Federation Sportive Feminine Internationale forms (1st women’s track & field association)

La Femme Sportive, first women’s sport association, founded in 1921, courtesy of Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Women%27s_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), 5^th-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/2^nd in the 3-mile)

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

world at the time

Credited with starting the running boom in the U.S. with his Olympic win in 1972

Former American Record holder:

10,000: 1972 Olympics—27:58.2 (heat), 27:51.4 (final)

Munich, West Germany – 1972: (L-R) Frank Shorter, Lasse Viren competing in the Men’s 10,000 metres event at the 1972 Summer Olympics / the Games of the XX Olympiad, Olympiahalle. (Photo by Tony Triolo /Disney General Entertainment Content via Getty Images)

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

2-Mile: 8:26.2—San Diego (1971)

Inducted into the U.S. Hall 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.net/

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

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

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

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

Larry Eder has had a 52-year involvement in the sport of athletics. Larry has experienced the sport as an athlete, coach, magazine publisher, and now, journalist and blogger. His first article, on Don Bowden, America’s first sub-4 minute miler, was published in RW in 1983. Larry has published several magazines on athletics, from American Athletics to the U.S. version of Spikes magazine. He currently manages the content and marketing development of the RunningNetwork, The Shoe Addicts, and RunBlogRun. Of RunBlogRun, his daily pilgrimage with the sport, Larry says: “I have to admit, I love traveling to far away meets, writing about the sport I love, and the athletes I respect, for my readers at runblogrun.com, the most of anything I have ever done, except, maybe running itself.” Also does some updates for BBC Sports at key events, which he truly enjoys. Theme song: Greg Allman, ” I’m no Angel.”

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