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

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This Day in Monitor & Subject–October 31  

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

La Femme Sportive, first girls’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-about the premier marathon race within the

               world on the time

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

           Former American Report holder:

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

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

                  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.web/

           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

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