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New York Road Runners (NYRR) is a non-profit running organization based in New York City whose mission is to help and inspire people through running. It was founded in 1958 by Ted Corbitt with 47 members and has since grown to a membership of more than 60,000. As of 2012, it was considered to be the premier running organization in the United ...
New York City marathon winners in the men's and women's divisions will each earn six figures for outpacing their competitors in the 26.2-mile race on Sunday.. First-place male and female runners ...
LaDawn Jefferson is a New York City Police Department Administrative Aide and a runner. She's run over 30 races with New York Road Runners and beat two forms of cancer. 'I Started Running At Age ...
Founded in 1958, the Road Runners Club of America (RRCA) is the oldest and largest distance running organization in the United States with over 1,500 running club and event members representing 200,000 individual runners active in their running communities. Road Runners Clubs may also include members who may have diverse abilities, from using ...
Fred Lebow (June 3, 1932 – October 9, 1994), born Fischel Lebowitz, was a Holocaust survivor, runner, race director, and founder of the New York City Marathon.Born in Arad, Romania, he presided over the transformation of the race from one with 55 finishers in 1970 to one of the largest marathons in the world with more than 52,000 finishers in 2018. [1]
$1: The first entry fee of the first New York City Marathon in 1970; 127 runners started and 55 finished that year. 20 – Therapy dogs on the course 4:39:47 – Average finishing time in 2023
Ted Corbitt (January 31, 1919 – December 12, 2007) [2] [3] [4] was an American long-distance runner. The first African-American to run the marathon at the Summer Olympics (the 1952 Olympics in Helsinki, Finland) and the founding president of New York Road Runners, Corbitt is often called "the father of American long distance running."
The TCS New York City Marathon is about to kick off and the Big Apple is already buzzing. Tens of thousands of runners from across the globe will take to the streets Sunday, Nov. 3, traveling 26.2 ...